Chess Research
Hobby needs more numismatic writers - Coin World
Coin World
Coin World
Describing a concept in 10 words, knowing it would be easier to write a half page on it, is like playing verbal chess. Despite the challenges ... The good news for everyone is that research, and thus numismatic writing, is far easier than it ever has ...
ONGOING CALENDAR - Bonners Ferry Herald
Bonners Ferry Herald
Genealogical Society of Boundary County: Research family history at Family History Center at the LDS Church from 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Free access to web sites, staff available to assist people, public invited. Info: 267-3802. • Curley Que's Homemakers' Club ...
Could Millions of Smart Meters Be Used to Create a Powerful Supercomputer? - Greentech Media
Greentech Media
Greentech Media
The cost of computing power today forces cancer researchers to limit the number of analyses they do on this front to a limited number of “best guesses,” said Orrantia, but “with this computing power, they wouldn't have to guess anymore -- they could ...
Seeing like a computer: What neuroscience can learn from computer science - PLoS Blogs (blog)
PLoS Blogs (blog)
PLoS Blogs (blog)
For example, computers do much better than brains at chess, while brains do much better than computers at object recognition. A study published in PLOS ONE found that even bumblebee brains are amazingly good at selecting visual images with color, ...
Terry Tao, a giant who straddles the world of mathematics - The Australian Financial Review
The Australian Financial Review
The Australian Financial Review
The steady state of mathematical research is to be completely stuck. It is a process that Charles Fefferman of Princeton, himself a onetime maths prodigy turned Fields medalist, likens to "playing chess with the devil". The rules of the devil's game ...
Gamifying Your Workforce: How to Make Engagement Fun - Business News Daily
Business News Daily
Business News Daily
Charlene Li, an analyst at business research firm Altimeter Group (a Prophet company), noted that gamification only works if your staff members really care about what they're doing and why. "There's a whole system of value attached to gamification that ...
Could Millions of Smart Meters Be Used to Create a Powerful Supercomputer? - Greentech Media
Greentech Media
Greentech Media
The cost of computing power today forces cancer researchers to limit the number of analyses they do on this front to a limited number of “best guesses,” said Orrantia, but “with this computing power, they wouldn't have to guess anymore -- they could ...
Why did I give up on maths? Ask my mum - Brisbane Times
Brisbane Times
Brisbane Times
Research has concluded that mothers are far more likely to encourage their sons than their daughters to engage in mathematical thinking. But it's unfair to pin all the blame on my mother. There were other factors, such as indifferent or incompetent ...
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Written by Patriot Staff - Barnstable Patriot
Barnstable Patriot
Signings at Books by the Sea: Aug. 7: Local author Paul Clerici speaks and signs copies of his book “A History of the Falmouth Road Race: Running Cape Cod,” 3 to 5 p.m. Aug. 12: Kristen Harnish reads and signs copies of her novel "The Vintner's ...
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US Presidential Candidate Bernie Sanders Talks Militarism But Says Nothing New - Center for Research on Globalization
Center for Research on Globalization
Center for Research on Globalization
And to those who are already telling me that Sanders has to censor his actually wonderful secret desires to move the world from war to peace (and presumably a 12-dimensional chess move by which Saudi Arabia check mates all the warmongers and fossil ...
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How I Was Able to Save Over $1000 in One Month - Huffington Post
Huffington Post
Huffington Post
I used gogetfunding.com to raise almost $1,200 for my son's chess scholarship fund in one month. This site allows you to ... After doing considerable research, these are the top three sites* that charge the least in fees for monies raised for personal ...
The Connoisseur of Number Sequences - Quanta Magazine
Quanta Magazine
Quanta Magazine
That's not because of any particular theorem the 75-year-old Welsh native has proved, though over the course of a more than 40-year research career at Bell Labs (later AT&T Labs) he won numerous awards for papers in the fields of combinatorics, coding ...
MorphoSys hooks up with G7 Therapeutics to feed hunger for stabilized GPCRs - FierceBiotech
FierceBiotech
The lastest deal is reminiscent of that earlier foray into GPCR research. In both cases, MorphoSys has turned to a fellow European biotech to gain access to stabilized receptors of relevance to its ... Aldag is joined on the board by fellow co-founders ...
W&M prepares to welcome new undergraduate, graduate students - William and Mary News
William and Mary News
The new freshmen also boast a large array of interests and experiences; the Class of 2019 includes a nationally ranked chess player who also performs stand-up comedy, a Scottish fiddle champion, a student who scaled Mount Kilimanjaro and a member of ...
How Tonight's Debaters Should Handle Obama's Iran Agreement - The Federalist
The Federalist
Nixon was a naval officer, congressman, senator, vice president, and international statesman who played multi-dimensional chess. Obama's ego makes him so .... Iran weapons-related research,” Obama contradicts Kerry. Obama even says, “If 15 or 20 years ...
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Why Schools Need More Teachers of Color—for White Students - The Atlantic
The Atlantic
The Atlantic
Noah Caruso, 17, calls South Philadelphia home. Known for cheesesteaks, pizza, and bakeries, South Philly is a close-knit, largely Italian American neighborhood where much of the population has traditionally shared the same background, culture, and race.
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Talking Nick Saban-Urban Meyer with Saban author Monte Burke: 'Not a lot of ... - cleveland.com
cleveland.com
cleveland.com
And there was a name that popped up now and then during Burke's research: Urban Meyer. "It did ocassionally, not as much as I thought it might," Burke told the Northeast Ohio Media Group in a phone interview about the book, which was released Tuesday.
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BioMed, Illumina set sights on Foster City: Planners consider traffic impacts ... - San Mateo Daily Journal
San Mateo Daily Journal
BioMed Realty Trust, owner of the Lincoln Centre Life Sciences Research Campus, is planning a $149 million build-to-suit headquarters for Illumina Inc., a gene sequencing technology firm. The Foster City Planning Commission will ... The intersections ...
Charity speed chess at the White Hart in Grays - YOURTHUROCK (blog)
YOURTHUROCK (blog)
THREE-time Polish junior chess champion Ella Vine, who lives in Thurrock, is organising a "chess simultaneous" in aid of a local charity providing accessible transport, Trans-Vol. The simultaneous will take place on Saturday the 15th August between 1 ...
Teaching Machines to Understand Us - MIT Technology Review
MIT Technology Review
One such company is Facebook, which hired LeCun from NYU in December 2013 and put him in charge of a new artificial–intelligence research group, FAIR, that today has 50 researchers but will grow to 100. LeCun's lab is Facebook's first significant ...