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Central Oregon Volunteer Search - Bend Bulletin
Central Oregon Volunteer Search
Bend Bulletin
CHESS FOR SUCCESS seeks volunteers to assist in classroom chess clubs throughout the Bend and Redmond area. Chess experience is not necessary. Volunteers will help take attendance and assist the coach with lessons. Chess clubs meet twice a week ...
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Bend Bulletin
CHESS FOR SUCCESS seeks volunteers to assist in classroom chess clubs throughout the Bend and Redmond area. Chess experience is not necessary. Volunteers will help take attendance and assist the coach with lessons. Chess clubs meet twice a week ...
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Russian forces remain heavily involved in Syria, despite appearances - Houston Chronicle
Houston Chronicle
Russian forces remain heavily involved in Syria, despite appearances
Houston Chronicle
Russian servicemen check for mines on April 8 in Palmyra, Syria. Though Russia officially pulled many troops out of Syria and President Vladimir Putin speaks of operations there as a victory, sources on the ground say Russian forces remain heavily ...
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Houston Chronicle
Russian servicemen check for mines on April 8 in Palmyra, Syria. Though Russia officially pulled many troops out of Syria and President Vladimir Putin speaks of operations there as a victory, sources on the ground say Russian forces remain heavily ...
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Intuition helps humans beat computers in physics game - SFGate
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Intuition helps humans beat computers in physics game
SFGate
BERLIN — Computers may have us beat at chess and checkers, but new research suggests our brains still have an edge when it comes to solving certain tricky problems thanks to a very human trait: intuition. Scientists in Denmark have found that people ...
Are humans the new supercomputer?Science Daily
Quantum Moves game helps map the brain to 'blur the lines between man and machine'Daily Mail
Take that, AI: Video-gamers solve quantum physics mystery using human intuitionLos Angeles Times
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SFGate
BERLIN — Computers may have us beat at chess and checkers, but new research suggests our brains still have an edge when it comes to solving certain tricky problems thanks to a very human trait: intuition. Scientists in Denmark have found that people ...
Are humans the new supercomputer?Science Daily
Quantum Moves game helps map the brain to 'blur the lines between man and machine'Daily Mail
Take that, AI: Video-gamers solve quantum physics mystery using human intuitionLos Angeles Times
Livemint -Undark Magazine
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Gaming for health - Business Standard (press release) (registration) (blog)
Business Standard (press release) (registration) (blog)
Gaming for health
Business Standard (press release) (registration) (blog)
Titled 'Games for Health for Children - Current Status and Needed Research,' this research offers a road map on how to use gaming for good outcomes, says Tom Baranowski, lead author of the paper. "The available evidence reveals that 'Games for Health ...
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Business Standard (press release) (registration) (blog)
Titled 'Games for Health for Children - Current Status and Needed Research,' this research offers a road map on how to use gaming for good outcomes, says Tom Baranowski, lead author of the paper. "The available evidence reveals that 'Games for Health ...
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Polk County calendar of library events - The Ledger
Polk County calendar of library events
The Ledger
About: "Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library" by Chris Grabenstein. Children ages 9-12 and parents/guardians; refreshments, crafts and games. Paws To Read Program! When: 10 to 11 a.m. April 23. About: Children sit with dogs like Charlie and Henry and ...
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The Ledger
About: "Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library" by Chris Grabenstein. Children ages 9-12 and parents/guardians; refreshments, crafts and games. Paws To Read Program! When: 10 to 11 a.m. April 23. About: Children sit with dogs like Charlie and Henry and ...
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Participate in a unique event, the "Live Oak Forum" April 22 - FOX10 News
FOX10 News
Participate in a unique event, the "Live Oak Forum" April 22
FOX10 News
Eric Nager, an investment advisor, will talk about his role as the chess coach at Bayside Academy, a program that he founded 16 years ago. With little expectations, this small 2A, now 3A, ... Lastly, Mr. Farjam Behnam's personal and professional ...
FOX10 News
Eric Nager, an investment advisor, will talk about his role as the chess coach at Bayside Academy, a program that he founded 16 years ago. With little expectations, this small 2A, now 3A, ... Lastly, Mr. Farjam Behnam's personal and professional ...
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Russian Forces Remain Heavily Involved in Syria, Despite Appearances - New York Times
New York Times
Russian Forces Remain Heavily Involved in Syria, Despite Appearances
New York Times
Noting Russian news reports that private security contractors were replacing regular Russian troops in Syria, Aleksandr M. Golts, a veteran Russian military analyst and a visiting researcher at Upsala University in Sweden, speculated that the bulk of ...
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New York Times
Noting Russian news reports that private security contractors were replacing regular Russian troops in Syria, Aleksandr M. Golts, a veteran Russian military analyst and a visiting researcher at Upsala University in Sweden, speculated that the bulk of ...
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Briefly Noted - Philanthropy Magazine
Philanthropy Magazine
Briefly Noted
Philanthropy Magazine
Anyone can play chess—the board and pieces are inexpensive, and players don't even have to speak the same language. Research shows that chess improves a student's ability to focus, visualize, think ahead, weigh options, and think abstractly.
Philanthropy Magazine
Anyone can play chess—the board and pieces are inexpensive, and players don't even have to speak the same language. Research shows that chess improves a student's ability to focus, visualize, think ahead, weigh options, and think abstractly.
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Can humans become supercomputers? - Livemint
Livemint
Can humans become supercomputers?
Livemint
Facebook AI Research (FAIR), according to a November 2015 note by Mike Schroepfer, chief technology officer at the social network, has been conducting ambitious research in areas like image recognition and natural language understanding with ...
Quantum Moves game helps map the brain to 'blur the lines between man and machine'Daily Mail
Intuition helps humans beat computers in thorny physics gameSan Jose Mercury News
Take that, AI: Video-gamers solve quantum physics mystery using human intuitionLos Angeles Times
Scientific Computing -Undark Magazine
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Livemint
Facebook AI Research (FAIR), according to a November 2015 note by Mike Schroepfer, chief technology officer at the social network, has been conducting ambitious research in areas like image recognition and natural language understanding with ...
Quantum Moves game helps map the brain to 'blur the lines between man and machine'Daily Mail
Intuition helps humans beat computers in thorny physics gameSan Jose Mercury News
Take that, AI: Video-gamers solve quantum physics mystery using human intuitionLos Angeles Times
Scientific Computing -Undark Magazine
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The Tiger Roars - Harvard Magazine
The Tiger Roars
Harvard Magazine
They therefore adopt a higher maximum spending rate, the better to advance research and education in the here and now—and to reduce a possible bias that might “favor financial capital at the expense of human and physical capital.” Administrators are ...
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Harvard Magazine
They therefore adopt a higher maximum spending rate, the better to advance research and education in the here and now—and to reduce a possible bias that might “favor financial capital at the expense of human and physical capital.” Administrators are ...
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Who Owns the Robots Rules the World - Harvard Magazine
Harvard Magazine
Who Owns the Robots Rules the World
Harvard Magazine
Reports of machines competing with humans in hamburger flipping, highly paid medical work, and administrative tasks are the tip of the iceberg: robots may substitute for humans in virtually every domain. If computers can beat humans in Jeopardy, chess ...
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Harvard Magazine
Reports of machines competing with humans in hamburger flipping, highly paid medical work, and administrative tasks are the tip of the iceberg: robots may substitute for humans in virtually every domain. If computers can beat humans in Jeopardy, chess ...
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The Real Reason AI Won't Take Over Anytime Soon - Live Science
Live Science
The Real Reason AI Won't Take Over Anytime Soon
Live Science
In what was widely seen as a key milestone for artificial intelligence (AI) researchers, one system beat a former world champion at a mind-bendingly intricate board game. But then, just a week later, ... In early March, a Google-made artificial ...
Live Science
In what was widely seen as a key milestone for artificial intelligence (AI) researchers, one system beat a former world champion at a mind-bendingly intricate board game. But then, just a week later, ... In early March, a Google-made artificial ...
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Sauter retires after more than three decades in Eaton County courtrooms - Lansing State Journal
Lansing State Journal
Sauter retires after more than three decades in Eaton County courtrooms
Lansing State Journal
"Doing a trial is like playing chess for 10 or 12 hour sessions knowing the chess pieces can get up and move on their own." The job has always been about "doing right, to do justice," Sauter said. Sauter was promoted to chief assistant prosecutor in ...
Lansing State Journal
"Doing a trial is like playing chess for 10 or 12 hour sessions knowing the chess pieces can get up and move on their own." The job has always been about "doing right, to do justice," Sauter said. Sauter was promoted to chief assistant prosecutor in ...
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Dr Haufiku deserves a page in our history books - New Era
New Era
Dr Haufiku deserves a page in our history books
New Era
This is a first for Namibia, and until research shows otherwise, a first for Africa. The suggestion made by Dr Haufiku, the incumbent Minister of ... Citizens are pawns in a great game – the “chess of life”. They use one pawn against another to silence ...
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New Era
This is a first for Namibia, and until research shows otherwise, a first for Africa. The suggestion made by Dr Haufiku, the incumbent Minister of ... Citizens are pawns in a great game – the “chess of life”. They use one pawn against another to silence ...
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Svetlana Alexievich: 'Ten to 15 of my childhood friends from Minsk died of cancer. Chernobyl kills' - The Guardian
The Guardian
Svetlana Alexievich: 'Ten to 15 of my childhood friends from Minsk died of cancer. Chernobyl kills'
The Guardian
He liked chess, fishing and beautiful women,” she says. I ask if her flair for ... To research the book, Alexievich travelled to Soviet-occupied Kabul, meeting military advisers and nurses, some of them compelled to sleep with senior officers. She says ...
The Guardian
He liked chess, fishing and beautiful women,” she says. I ask if her flair for ... To research the book, Alexievich travelled to Soviet-occupied Kabul, meeting military advisers and nurses, some of them compelled to sleep with senior officers. She says ...
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Man vs. Machine: What Happens When a Computer Develops Intuition? - Haaretz
Haaretz
Man vs. Machine: What Happens When a Computer Develops Intuition?
Haaretz
Twenty years ago, in a hotel room in Chicago, chess grandmaster Garry Kasparov, the preeminent player of his generation, sat down to play against IBM's Deep Blue computer, in the first match of its kind. Kasparov emerged from the .... The Google search ...
Haaretz
Twenty years ago, in a hotel room in Chicago, chess grandmaster Garry Kasparov, the preeminent player of his generation, sat down to play against IBM's Deep Blue computer, in the first match of its kind. Kasparov emerged from the .... The Google search ...
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The Many Faces of Tatiana Maslany: A Guide to the Clones of Orphan Black's Project Leda - Flavorwire
Flavorwire
The Many Faces of Tatiana Maslany: A Guide to the Clones of Orphan Black's Project Leda
Flavorwire
Cosima meets a charming French lady named Delphine, who introduces her to Dr. Aldous Leekie, the leader of a movement called “Neolution” and the head of the Dyad Institute, a research center pushing the boundaries of acceptable genetic modification. As ...
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Flavorwire
Cosima meets a charming French lady named Delphine, who introduces her to Dr. Aldous Leekie, the leader of a movement called “Neolution” and the head of the Dyad Institute, a research center pushing the boundaries of acceptable genetic modification. As ...
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Davich: Social media campaign adds new wrinkle to long abortion battle - Chicago Tribune
Chicago Tribune
Davich: Social media campaign adds new wrinkle to long abortion battle
Chicago Tribune
25, 1981 – research for an upcoming column – I experienced a minor epiphany regarding the decades-old debate over abortion. A black-and-white photo ... The legal chess game continues. Legislative knights and rooks make their moves while too many ...
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Chicago Tribune
25, 1981 – research for an upcoming column – I experienced a minor epiphany regarding the decades-old debate over abortion. A black-and-white photo ... The legal chess game continues. Legislative knights and rooks make their moves while too many ...
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O'Fallon Public Library wins Beautification Award - Belleville News-Democrat
Belleville News-Democrat
O'Fallon Public Library wins Beautification Award
Belleville News-Democrat
With services ranging from career guidance, free tax and election center, computer and research assistance to teen and children's areas for age-specific activities and studying, the library should be a must-visit destination in O'Fallon for local ...
Belleville News-Democrat
With services ranging from career guidance, free tax and election center, computer and research assistance to teen and children's areas for age-specific activities and studying, the library should be a must-visit destination in O'Fallon for local ...
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Are Humans the New Supercomputer? - Scientific Computing
Scientific Computing
Are Humans the New Supercomputer?
Scientific Computing
When a computer routinely beats us at chess and we can barely navigate without the help of a GPS, have we outlived our place in the world? Not quite. Welcome to the front line of research in cognitive skills, quantum computers and gaming. Today there ...
Intuition helps humans beat computers in thorny physics gameSan Jose Mercury News
Take that, AI: Video-gamers solve quantum physics mystery using human intuitionLos Angeles Times
Humans Beat Computers in Quantum ResearchUndark Magazine
Nanotechnology News (press release)
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Scientific Computing
When a computer routinely beats us at chess and we can barely navigate without the help of a GPS, have we outlived our place in the world? Not quite. Welcome to the front line of research in cognitive skills, quantum computers and gaming. Today there ...
Intuition helps humans beat computers in thorny physics gameSan Jose Mercury News
Take that, AI: Video-gamers solve quantum physics mystery using human intuitionLos Angeles Times
Humans Beat Computers in Quantum ResearchUndark Magazine
Nanotechnology News (press release)
all 35 news articles »
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