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Iowa...South Carolina: Evangelicals and Trump - Huffington Post
Huffington Post
Can anyone imagine salesman Trump, always a couple of moves ahead in the chess game, authorizing such a blowback mailing? But who cares, the Cruz people will properly note, their guy placed first. ... Though both added a blue collar appeal to their ...
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AI computer program defeats professional player at game of Go for first time - BRIC+ News
BRIC+ News
BRIC+ News
This type of computer algorithm was dubbed 'Monte Carlo' as a codename for top-secret research into the hydrogen bomb in the 1950s. Robots have beaten humans at board games before. The race started with Noughts and Crosses in 1952, then backgammon in ...
Machine vs man race hots upKhaleej Times
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Mind and machine - The Economist
The Economist
The Economist
Other dabblers in artificial intelligence wanted it to do things humans found hard, such as calculus or chess, but Mr Minsky was more interested in apparently going backwards. He dreamed of programming a machine which, in reasoning ... When he went to ...
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Are DraftKings, FanDuel doomed? Don't bet on it, fantasy sports firms say - Chicago Tribune
Chicago Tribune
Chicago Tribune
FanDuel, meanwhile, said the layoffs are concentrated in the Florida office's research and development division, which is being shuttered. The job cuts do not impact the rest of the office, which includes an expanding customer service operation, the ...
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The Evangelical Seduction Interruptus - American Spectator
American Spectator
American Spectator
Can anyone imagine salesman Trump, always a couple of moves ahead in the chess game, authorizing such a blowback mailing? But who cares, the Cruz people will properly note, their guy placed ... Though both added a blue collar appeal to their message ...
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DC community calendar, Feb. 4-11, 2016 - Washington Post
Washington Post
Closer look at art through the conservator's eyes Paintings conservator Amber Kerr leads a tour of works by artists Abbott Handerson Thayer, Henry Ossawa Tanner and Winslow Homer, learn about their research, preservation and treatment, and discover ...
Could Andy Rubin's Playground usher in a new era for mankind? - Firstpost
Firstpost
Firstpost
That AI has no conception of chess, of the computer it's running on or even the fact that it's doing something. But here's the kicker, that's not really a problem as far as AI goes; our brains function in pretty much the ... This is exactly the world ...
The science of air guitar and car karaoke: How music teaches our brains to imagine what's coming next - Salon
Salon
Salon
One of the things the research showed was the connection between music and speech. “Importantly,” Natalie Angier wrote, “the M.I.T. team demonstrated that the speech and music circuits are in different parts of the brain's sprawling auditory cortex ...
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Vandersteen: Mead Library expands services - The Sheboygan Press
The Sheboygan Press
The Sheboygan Press
You can still come to the library to check out books and DVDs, go to storytime with your kids and do research. But now you can do so much more. Mead Library is developing a Digital Media Lab and "Makerspace." You'll ... As always, the library offers ...
Meet the Kahanes: Father and son to perform together - Jewish Journal
Jewish Journal
Jewish Journal
He played baseball and chess growing up. Music didn't become a primary focus until he ... Gabriel did a tremendous amount of research about my mother fleeing Germany, her time spent in Cuba, coming to Los Angeles. He immersed himself in that world, ...
Community Calendar - The Marysville Advocate
The Marysville Advocate
Chess Club, adults and youngsters, 4:30 to 7:30 p.m. on Thursdays, Astro 3 Theatre, Marysville. Photo exhibit “Capturing Natural Wonders of Kansas ... By K-State Research and Extension and WRAPS. Lunch provided. RSVP by Feb. 15 for lunch. 785-562- ...
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Machine vs man race hots up - Khaleej Times
Khaleej Times
Khaleej Times
The game of Go has been the subject of research for some time. As it is played on a 19x19 board (making it exponentially more complicated than chess, which is set on a 8x8 board), the industry consensus seemed to indicate that it would have taken about ...
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Will Obama's Oil Tax Reverse Plummeting Gas Prices? - CSPnet.com
CSPnet.com
CSPnet.com
“President Obama has 'forked' the oil industry,” said Verleger, referring to a chess move where one player forces the other to give up a piece by attacking multiple pieces simultaneously. In this case, he said the Obama administration is trying to ...
5 Things To Know About President Obama's BudgetWAMU 88.5
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Five Surprising Details About Students Who Struggle on International Math Tests - Education Week (subscription) (blog)
Education Week (subscription) (blog)
Education Week (subscription) (blog)
OECD researchers calculated an index of students' self-efficacy, and across all OECD countries, a student's likelihood of performing at the bottom in math rose 67 percent for every unit lower he fell on that efficacy scale. In the United States, for ...
OECD: U.S. Efforts Haven't Helped Low Performers on Global Math, Reading TestsEducation Week (subscription) (blog)
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Community News For The Vernon Edition - Hartford Courant
Hartford Courant
Hartford Courant
25, at 7 p.m. Bev has a degree in American Studies and Education and has done extensive research on this topic; she'll share her findings at this month's meeting of the Ellington Historical Society. All are welcome. February movies are: "Our Brand is ...
St. Vincent debate team among best in the nation - Petaluma Argus Courier
Petaluma Argus Courier
Petaluma Argus Courier
He note that before the advent of tablets, teams might lug as many as five file cabinets of research to a competition. The coach said both Hunter and ... “It is like pieces of chess. You still have to know how to move them around. How to organize your ...
It would be hard to coast through The Third Coast - ChicagoNow (blog)
ChicagoNow (blog)
Dyja did an awesome amount of research, but the way he treats the material made it hard for me to follow. Since he organizes his socio-cultural-political history by time periods (most of them four years), a character's story continues from one time ...
New game and clay cafe set to open in Stratford in March - The Beacon Herald
The Beacon Herald
The Beacon Herald
Fowler has done her research and this venture has been about a year in the making. The trick is to create an idea that will be ... When she was a child she played the classics -- chess and Monopoly -- with her parents. Her mother taught ceramics and ...
OECD: U.S. Efforts Haven't Helped Low Performers on Global Math, Reading Tests - Education Week (subscription) (blog)
Education Week (subscription) (blog)
Education Week (subscription) (blog)
For example, OECD found students who completed six to seven hours of homework each week were 70 percent less likely to be low-performing in math, and those who participated in extracurricular activities such as playing chess or being in a math club ...
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English department holds conference - Gannonknight
Gannonknight
Gannonknight
Gannon University students and faculty are invited to witness research and presentations from Gannon and surrounding universities' humanities students and faculty at Saturday's second annual CHESS conference. The conference, titled “Towards the ...