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How to Stop Virtual Reality from Making You Want to Puke - MIT Technology Review

Chess Research - Tue, 06/30/2015 - 23:00

MIT Technology Review

How to Stop Virtual Reality from Making You Want to Puke
MIT Technology Review
I'm sitting in Gordon Wetzstein's lab at Stanford University with a hacked-together prototype of a head-mounted display strapped to my face, using a wireless Xbox controller to manipulate a series of 3-D models: a lion, a chessboard filled with chess ...

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REDLANDS DAILY FACTS CALENDAR - Redlands Daily Facts

Chess Research - Tue, 06/30/2015 - 19:02

REDLANDS DAILY FACTS CALENDAR
Redlands Daily Facts
Chess club: Redlands Chess Club meets 2 to 5 p.m. every Friday at Redlands Community Senior Center, 111 W. Lugonia Ave. Players of all ages are welcome, ..... Anyone interested in genealogy research is welcome to attend. Information: www.yvgs.org; ...

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Beta testing/replication on video game cognition research - Gamasutra (blog)

Chess Research - Tue, 06/30/2015 - 18:44

Beta testing/replication on video game cognition research
Gamasutra (blog)
Gobet et al. had mentioned earlier in their paper regarding the Elo rating for chess players. Videogames record players' statistics allowing players to gauge their performance and abilities on a fine level. If cognitive researchers and game designers ...

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Condiment lovers have a caterpillar to thank - Big News Network.com

Chess Research - Tue, 06/30/2015 - 15:56

Big News Network.com

Condiment lovers have a caterpillar to thank
Big News Network.com
The chemicals that give plants like mustard, horseradish and wasabi their pungent flavors are the result of the ongoing evolutionary chess match between leaf and caterpillar. Over millions of years, a variety of plants developed the ability to produce ...

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Condiment lovers have a caterpillar to thank - UPI.com

Chess Research - Tue, 06/30/2015 - 13:05

UPI.com

Condiment lovers have a caterpillar to thank
UPI.com
Eventually, Pires hopes all this research will pay off in the form of designer plants. "If we can harness the power of genetics and determine what causes these copies of genes," Pire said, "we could produce plants that are more pest-resistant to ...

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THINGS TO DO: Post-July Fourth beach clean-up planned Saturday - Marco Island Sun Times

Chess Research - Tue, 06/30/2015 - 12:08

THINGS TO DO: Post-July Fourth beach clean-up planned Saturday
Marco Island Sun Times
Kids free Fridays 10 a.m. Rookery Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve Environmental Learning Center, 300 Tower Road, Naples, kids free when accompanied by adult, summer education program provides free admission for children ages 12 and younger ...

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Using Data to Increase Patient Engagement in Health Care - blogs.hbr.org (blog)

Chess Research - Tue, 06/30/2015 - 11:51

blogs.hbr.org (blog)

Using Data to Increase Patient Engagement in Health Care
blogs.hbr.org (blog)
The English grandmaster Nigel Short recently declared that computers are stripping chess of its mystery; by crunching reams of data, computers can deconstruct once-obscure board positions in a matter of seconds and reveal the optimal move. Something ...

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Meet two of the gifted contenders for this year's Child Genius - Radio Times

Chess Research - Tue, 06/30/2015 - 11:44

Radio Times

Meet two of the gifted contenders for this year's Child Genius
Radio Times
Really exciting meeting other people you could play double chess with. Some people are good at art or ... Her mum, research scientist Bama, first noticed that something might be different about her only child when Neha was three. “We came to the UK ...

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US Prison Population Has Increased Dramatically, But Mass Incarceration ... - International Business Times

Chess Research - Tue, 06/30/2015 - 10:52

International Business Times

US Prison Population Has Increased Dramatically, But Mass Incarceration ...
International Business Times
Prison inmates play chess at Oak Glen Conservation Fire Camp #35 in Yucaipa, California, on Nov. 6, 2014. With the U.S. imprisoned population reaching 1.5 million in 2013, a new Congressional Research Service report on prisons and the criminal justice ...

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11 Easy Tips Guaranteed To Prevent Productivity Burnout - Business 2 Community

Chess Research - Tue, 06/30/2015 - 09:18

Business 2 Community

11 Easy Tips Guaranteed To Prevent Productivity Burnout
Business 2 Community
In fact, ping pong, or table tennis if I'm being official, has been called “aerobic chess.” Wendy Suzuki, Ph.D., professor of neuroscience at New York University, says that research actually shows that ping pong activates different parts of the brain ...

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New Apps Are Helping Smartphones To Recognize Images - Applications on ... - Top Tech News

Chess Research - Tue, 06/30/2015 - 06:26

Top Tech News

New Apps Are Helping Smartphones To Recognize Images - Applications on ...
Top Tech News
More than 1 billion smartphones were sold in 2013, according to research firm IDC. And where there are people, there are marketers trying to sell them stuff. Like ketchup. Blippar users can ... "We call it cognitive computing, which is kind of a dorky ...

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Short Interest in Nektar Therapeutics Grows By 20.9% (NKTR) - Dakota Financial News

Chess Research - Tue, 06/30/2015 - 00:30

Short Interest in Nektar Therapeutics Grows By 20.9% (NKTR)
Dakota Financial News
In other Nektar Therapeutics news, Director Robert Chess sold 15,000 shares of Nektar Therapeutics stock on the open market in a transaction that occurred on Friday, June 19th. The stock ... A number of research firms have recently commented on NKTR.

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Community Calendar - mySanAntonio.com (blog)

Chess Research - Tue, 06/30/2015 - 00:09

Community Calendar
mySanAntonio.com (blog)
... a scientist at Southwest Research Institute and UTSA professor, 2-4 p.m. at the Igo Library, 13330 Kyle Seale Parkway. Valek will discuss missions to Pluto and Jupiter, and a solar probe to the sun. For information, call 207-9080. The Igo Chess ...

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BWW EXCLUSIVE: 5 SONGS BY... Michael Friedman On THE FORTRESS OF ... - Broadway World

Chess Research - Mon, 06/29/2015 - 23:01

Broadway World

BWW EXCLUSIVE: 5 SONGS BY... Michael Friedman On THE FORTRESS OF ...
Broadway World
A record player, nursery rhymes, a spaldeen bouncing against a wall, Motown, street corner harmony, a Mets game on the radio, the silence when a bully passes by, the rhythms of a chess game, a list of paint colors, a stickball game on the street ...

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REDLANDS DAILY FACTS CALENDAR - Redlands Daily Facts

Chess Research - Mon, 06/29/2015 - 20:10

REDLANDS DAILY FACTS CALENDAR
Redlands Daily Facts
Chess club: Redlands Chess Club meets 2 to 5 p.m. every Friday at Redlands Community Senior Center, 111 W. Lugonia Ave. Players of all ages are welcome, ..... Anyone interested in genealogy research is welcome to attend. Information: www.yvgs.org; ...

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New York's Fresh Kills Landfill Gets an Epic Facelift - Audubon Magazine Blog

Chess Research - Mon, 06/29/2015 - 19:29

Audubon Magazine Blog

New York's Fresh Kills Landfill Gets an Epic Facelift
Audubon Magazine Blog
He lacks the thousand-yard stare that marks longtime researchers toiling in remote locales. But then his site isn't exactly the norm either—it's a former city dump. And though the 2,200 acres of meadows, woodlands, and marsh that comprise the Fresh ...

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Is the Speed of Technology Development really "Speeding" up? - Pulse

Chess Research - Mon, 06/29/2015 - 14:54

Pulse

Is the Speed of Technology Development really "Speeding" up?
Pulse
To depict where we are today in terms of technology progress and what the rate of progress might look like, the authors (Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee) used the following example: It is believed that the game chess was invented in the 6th century ...

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Is the Speed of Technology Development really "Speeding" up?Gunnar Menzel - LinkedIn

Chess Research - Mon, 06/29/2015 - 14:54

Is the Speed of Technology Development really "Speeding" up?Gunnar Menzel
LinkedIn
The Second Machine Age is a book (published in 2014) that outlines many concepts and ideas, however one key aspect I always found most relevant – the chess game metaphor : “The Second Half of the Chessboard” (a term coined by Ray Kurzweil).

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Appeasing the ayatollahs and suppressing democracy - The Hill (blog)

Chess Research - Mon, 06/29/2015 - 13:01

Appeasing the ayatollahs and suppressing democracy
The Hill (blog)
London, Paris and Washington fall victim to the chess players from Tehran whose end game repeatedly trumps the major powers. But the prodemocracy opposition also plays chess. The NCRI just announced that it plans to hold another press conference ...

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Google's AI Artiste Takes On Georges Seurat - PSFK (blog)

Chess Research - Mon, 06/29/2015 - 06:45

PSFK (blog)

Google's AI Artiste Takes On Georges Seurat
PSFK (blog)
Back in the 1990s when IBM's Deep Blue beat world champion Kasparov at chess, some pundits of the time were unimpressed. ... Google's research team hopes to further understand and visualize how the neural network works inside the AI. Though Big G ...
Google's neural networks create bizarre "Inceptionism" artGizmag

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