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Google's AI Masters the Game of Go a Decade Earlier Than Expected - MIT Technology Review

Chess Research - Mon, 02/01/2016 - 12:35

MIT Technology Review

Google's AI Masters the Game of Go a Decade Earlier Than Expected
MIT Technology Review
Go is far more challenging for computers than, say, chess for two reasons: the number of potential moves each turn is far higher, and there is no simple way to measure material advantage. A player must therefore learn to recognize abstract patterns in ...
In a first for ancient game, Google AI conquers humansArkansas Online
All systems Go! But what is it like to play against a computer?Cosmos

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NYC pilot program aims to foster greater school diversity - Brooklyn Daily Eagle

Chess Research - Mon, 02/01/2016 - 11:50

Brooklyn Daily Eagle

NYC pilot program aims to foster greater school diversity
Brooklyn Daily Eagle
"Your child is going to be in a classroom with children who are different from them," Soto told parents during a tour this month, in between fielding questions about the school's fencing program and its chess club. That's not always the case. The city ...

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Goldman Sachs Wavefront Economic Analysis Hunts For Economic Shocks - ValueWalk

Chess Research - Mon, 02/01/2016 - 11:34

ValueWalk

Goldman Sachs Wavefront Economic Analysis Hunts For Economic Shocks
ValueWalk
Goldman Sachs economics researchers have engaged in an ambitious project to apply “Wavefront” macro economic analysis onto fundamental economic performance drivers and then reveal trading and investing ideas for what is an oddly shaped market ...

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Weekly planner for area sporting events, entertainment and more - The News Herald

Chess Research - Mon, 02/01/2016 - 11:23

Weekly planner for area sporting events, entertainment and more
The News Herald
Instructor Jackie Papke presents “My Genealogy Experience” about genealogy research and the interesting and unexpected facts she learned about her ancestors. Details: 522-2100 or NWRLS.com. AFRICAN-AMERICAN LITERATURE READ IN: 3:30-5 p.m. and 6:30-7:30 ...

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NYC pilot program aims to foster greater school diversity - Education Week (subscription)

Chess Research - Mon, 02/01/2016 - 08:01

NYC pilot program aims to foster greater school diversity
Education Week (subscription)
"Your child is going to be in a classroom with children who are different from them," Soto told parents during a tour this month, in between fielding questions about the school's fencing program and its chess club. That's not always the case. The city ...

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The Emergence of Deep and Machine Learning - Desktop Engineering

Chess Research - Mon, 02/01/2016 - 07:03

The Emergence of Deep and Machine Learning
Desktop Engineering
Imagine a host of products that can incorporate such applications as superb and accurate language translation from multiple platforms, forecast weather with pinpoint accuracy and learn chess within 72 hours — and play at the Master level. Such ...

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Iran nuclear agreement satisfactory not ideal: Salehi - Press TV

Chess Research - Mon, 02/01/2016 - 05:42

Press TV

Iran nuclear agreement satisfactory not ideal: Salehi
Press TV
In other words, to remove the inefficient centrifuges the IR1 and to replace them with efficient centrifuges or the advanced centrifuges such as IR8 about Arak, the Arak Research Reactor, as I in my first interview with you if you remember if you ...

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Notebook: Arbanas' artisty is shooting the 3-ball for YSU - Sharonherald

Chess Research - Mon, 02/01/2016 - 05:04

Sharonherald

Notebook: Arbanas' artisty is shooting the 3-ball for YSU
Sharonherald
According to women's basketball sports information director John Vogel's research, the Penguins have produced 6 wins when trailing by as many as 8 points in a game, 3 times from 15-point deficits. In the season-opener against Canisius Youngstown yanked ...

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Lord Carloway's vision for redesigning the Scottish courtroom - Law Society of Scotland (press release) (blog)

Chess Research - Mon, 02/01/2016 - 03:24

Lord Carloway's vision for redesigning the Scottish courtroom
Law Society of Scotland (press release) (blog)
These may occasionally be expressions of my own personal utopia, but generally they are conclusions based upon considered, albeit inevitably incomplete, research by others. Many of the central changes require primary legislation. Their introduction ...

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In a first for ancient game, Google AI conquers humans - Arkansas Online

Chess Research - Mon, 02/01/2016 - 02:28

Cosmos

In a first for ancient game, Google AI conquers humans
Arkansas Online
Google DeepMind, the London research group behind the project, is now getting the software ready for a competition in Seoul against the world's best Go player in March. The event harks back to the highly publicized chess match in 1996 when IBM's Deep ...
All systems Go! But what is it like to play against a computer?Cosmos

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Pluto holds more water ice than we thought - Cosmos

Chess Research - Mon, 02/01/2016 - 01:26

Cosmos

Pluto holds more water ice than we thought
Cosmos
Recently released data from NASA's New Horizons spacecraft suggest there is much more water ice on Pluto's surface than previously thought. Scans of infrared light taken at 15-minute intervals by the craft's Ralph/Linear Etalon Imaging Spectral Array ...

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Smith: Thinking ahead in health care - Vermont Biz

Chess Research - Mon, 02/01/2016 - 00:39

Smith: Thinking ahead in health care
Vermont Biz
UVM Health Network's recent growth is primarily in New York. And UVM Medical Center does need to be large enough to be a well respected and sought after academic, research and acute care facility. But you can't chalk it all up to size, some of it ...

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NFL Notes: Report: Johnson told coach he will retire - Duluth News Tribune

Chess Research - Sun, 01/31/2016 - 23:27

Duluth News Tribune

NFL Notes: Report: Johnson told coach he will retire
Duluth News Tribune
The Lions hired Randy Edsall, who was fired as head coach at Maryland during the 2015 season, as the team's director of football research and special projects. Around the NFL. The NFL sent a memo to all 32 teams that said the league has no rule against ...
NFL notebook: Johnson told coach he will retireWPTZ The Champlain Valley

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Changing the Tire Game - Tire Review

Chess Research - Sun, 01/31/2016 - 23:03

Changing the Tire Game
Tire Review
If the off-highway tire market were a chess game, BKT would be preparing to declare checkmate and claim its place as a global leader. ... Part of BKT's vision to position itself as a leader in the off-highway tire market not only includes a new plant ...

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Vol. 29, No. 1: Karats and Carats - Wall Street Journal (blog)

Chess Research - Sun, 01/31/2016 - 21:21

Wall Street Journal (blog)

Vol. 29, No. 1: Karats and Carats
Wall Street Journal (blog)
Why is the ancient Chinese board game Go usually spelled uppercase, including in our pages, while other board games such as chess or checkers are lowercase? After all, it isn't a brand name such as Monopoly. We did some research and deep thinking, and ...

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Westborough student is runner-up in national math competition - Community Advocate

Chess Research - Sun, 01/31/2016 - 19:43

Community Advocate

Westborough student is runner-up in national math competition
Community Advocate
I would never run out of money,” he said. Karnik also had the rare honor as a high school student to present his research on probability theory during the math meetings at the conference. Outside of math, Karnik is an avid chess player and participates ...

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Kerala Council for Historical Research to dig up old board games - Deccan Chronicle

Chess Research - Sun, 01/31/2016 - 19:31

Deccan Chronicle

Kerala Council for Historical Research to dig up old board games
Deccan Chronicle
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The Kerala Council for Historical Research (KCHR) through a popular campaign is set to document, conserve and illuminate available information and material remains on the traditional board games for the Muziris Children's Museum at ...

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Autonomous Robot Weaponry - The Debate - iProgrammer

Chess Research - Sun, 01/31/2016 - 18:01

iProgrammer

Autonomous Robot Weaponry - The Debate
iProgrammer
She also explains that for regulating such an affair and for reaching a mutual understanding, all stakeholders, states, industry and research institutions, must participate, regardless of how much they have advanced into this technology and knowledge ...

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NFL notebook: Johnson told coach he will retire - 4029tv

Chess Research - Sun, 01/31/2016 - 17:37

NFL notebook: Johnson told coach he will retire
4029tv
--The Lions hired Randy Edsall, who was fired as head coach at Maryland during the 2015 season, as the team's director of football research and special projects. --The NFL sent a memo to all 32 teams that said the league has no rule against moving to ...

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NFL notebook: Johnson told coach he will retire - WPTZ The Champlain Valley

Chess Research - Sun, 01/31/2016 - 17:31

NFL notebook: Johnson told coach he will retire
WPTZ The Champlain Valley
--The Lions hired Randy Edsall, who was fired as head coach at Maryland during the 2015 season, as the team's director of football research and special projects. --The NFL sent a memo to all 32 teams that said the league has no rule against moving to ...

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