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Women beat expectations when playing chess against men, according to new research - Phys.Org

Tue, 01/30/2018 - 02:00
Women beat expectations when playing chess against men, according to new research  Phys.Org

Data from 160000 ranked chess players and more than five million chess matches suggests that women playing against men perform better than expected ...

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Women beat expectations when playing chess against men, according to new research - Phys.org

Tue, 01/30/2018 - 02:00
Women beat expectations when playing chess against men, according to new research  Phys.org

Data from 160000 ranked chess players and more than five million chess matches suggests that women playing against men perform better than expected ...

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Women beat expectations when playing chess against men, according to new research - EurekAlert (press release)

Mon, 01/29/2018 - 23:25

Women beat expectations when playing chess against men, according to new research
EurekAlert (press release)
Data from 160,000 ranked chess players and more than five million chess matches suggests that women playing against men perform better than expected based on their official chess ratings, according to a new study by the University of Sheffield. The ...

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Women beat expectations when playing chess against men, according to new research - EurekAlert (press release)

Mon, 01/29/2018 - 23:25

Women beat expectations when playing chess against men, according to new research
EurekAlert (press release)
Data from 160,000 ranked chess players and more than five million chess matches suggests that women playing against men perform better than expected based on their official chess ratings, according to a new study by the University of Sheffield. The ...

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Women beat expectations when playing chess against men, according to new research - Phys.Org

Mon, 01/29/2018 - 23:10

Phys.Org

Women beat expectations when playing chess against men, according to new research
Phys.Org
Factors other than stereotype threat appear to be more important in determining men and women's tournament chess performance. "Looking at such a large real-world sample allows us a lot of confidence that our numbers are reliable." Being aware of a ...

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Why women are better at chess than they thought - Yorkshire Post

Mon, 01/29/2018 - 23:00

Yorkshire Post

Why women are better at chess than they thought
Yorkshire Post
IT might have seemed the black-and-white preserve of an old mates' club – but the endgame is that when it comes to playing chess, women are not as square as everyone thought. In a pursuit in which even the rankings – master and grandmaster – might be ...

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Job One for Quantum Computers: Boost Artificial Intelligence - Quanta Magazine

Mon, 01/29/2018 - 16:18

Quanta Magazine

Job One for Quantum Computers: Boost Artificial Intelligence
Quanta Magazine
Neural networks and other machine-learning systems have become the most disruptive technology of the 21st century. They out-human humans, beating us not just at tasks most of us were never really good at, such as chess and data-mining, but also at the ...

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Merging AI and human minds could make the workforce smarter - VentureBeat

Mon, 01/29/2018 - 16:10

VentureBeat

Merging AI and human minds could make the workforce smarter
VentureBeat
Given the promise of AI technology, it's possible our world could one day mimic the storyline from Blade Runner. Last year, Elon Musk, founder and CEO of Tesla, stated that “robots will be able to do everything better than us,” implying even CEOs like ...

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Found: An 800-Year-Old Chess Piece - Atlas Obscura

Mon, 01/29/2018 - 14:19

Atlas Obscura

Found: An 800-Year-Old Chess Piece
Atlas Obscura
In fall 2017, the Norwegian Institute for Cultural Heritage Research (NIKU) started digging a medieval site in Tønsberg, a town founded during the Viking period and now considered to be Norway's oldest. Among the artifacts unearthed so far, including ...

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AFRL Anticipates Arrival of Neuromorphic Supercomputer - Signal Magazine

Mon, 01/29/2018 - 12:15

AFRL Anticipates Arrival of Neuromorphic Supercomputer
Signal Magazine
Goddard adds that the lab's neuromorphic computing research team focuses on developing and fielding the game-changing technology through innovations in new, massively parallel computing, in-memory processing architectures, new nanoelectronic devices ...

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Ancient Chess Piece With Islamic Designs Discovered in Norway, Baffling Archaeologists - Newsweek

Mon, 01/29/2018 - 10:36

Newsweek

Ancient Chess Piece With Islamic Designs Discovered in Norway, Baffling Archaeologists
Newsweek
The medieval knight piece has a protruding snout on the top with two dotted circles. Lars Haugesten/Norwegian Institute of Cultural Heritage Research. "No previous archaeological finds from Tønsberg have such details, which emphasizes that this chess ...

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How Tracy Anderson Keeps Revolutionizing Fitness - Forbes

Mon, 01/29/2018 - 09:18

Forbes

How Tracy Anderson Keeps Revolutionizing Fitness
Forbes
She began developing her integrated method in 1999 and has since created over 200,000 custom exercise moves that define her approach; A mental feat that can be attributed to her childhood as a champion chess player. Each move is deliberately designed ...

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800-Year-Old 'Knight' Chess Piece Discovered in Norway - Live Science

Mon, 01/29/2018 - 06:39

Live Science

800-Year-Old 'Knight' Chess Piece Discovered in Norway
Live Science
There is likely some lead inside the piece to help it "stand firmly on the chessboard," a team of archaeologists from the Norwegian Institute for Cultural Heritage Research (NIKU) said in a statement. Discovered just before Christmas 2017, "the piece ...

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New study to help improve life for headache sufferers - Hospital Healthcare Europe

Mon, 01/29/2018 - 03:36

New study to help improve life for headache sufferers
Hospital Healthcare Europe
Researchers at Warwick Medical School are investigating whether a new education and self-management programme will help improve quality of life for people living with chronic headaches. The study, Chronic Headache Education and Self-management Study ...

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Exciting Partnerships Forming Between Big Pharma and Tech - Pharmacy Times

Mon, 01/29/2018 - 02:14

Exciting Partnerships Forming Between Big Pharma and Tech
Pharmacy Times
IBM's Watson made the media rounds for defeating humans in board games like Chess and Go, but more relevant to the masses would be assistance it can provide in the health care arena. Health care was an original entry point for Watson, but an ...

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800-Year-Old 'Knight' Chess Piece Discovered in Norway - Live Science

Mon, 01/29/2018 - 02:00
800-Year-Old 'Knight' Chess Piece Discovered in Norway  Live Science

Chess fans today may not recognize this decorated thimble-shaped object, but a recently discovered 800-year-old game piece from Norway is actually a knight.

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800-Year-Old 'Knight' Chess Piece Discovered in Norway - Live Science

Mon, 01/29/2018 - 02:00
800-Year-Old 'Knight' Chess Piece Discovered in Norway  Live Science

Chess fans today may not recognize this decorated thimble-shaped object, but a recently discovered 800-year-old game piece from Norway is actually a knight.

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The Love Oracle: Can AI Help You Succeed at Dating? - Singularity Hub

Sun, 01/28/2018 - 10:15

The Love Oracle: Can AI Help You Succeed at Dating?
Singularity Hub
Interacting with modern-day Alexa, Siri, and other chatterbots can be fun, but as personal assistants, these chatterbots can seem a little impersonal. What if, instead of asking them to turn the lights off, you were asking them how to mend a broken ...

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Emmanuel Macron's Neoliberal Blitzkrieg - Center for Research on Globalization

Sun, 01/28/2018 - 03:00

Center for Research on Globalization

Emmanuel Macron's Neoliberal Blitzkrieg
Center for Research on Globalization
The gambit is a well-known opening move in the chess game. The player makes a sacrifice, typically a pawn, for the sake of a compensating advantage. Emmanuel Macron metaphorically did that in the first six months of his presidency. In the run-up to the ...

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Southern Copper (SCCO) Downgraded by Zacks Investment Research to Hold - Newburgh Gazette

Sat, 01/27/2018 - 22:26

Southern Copper (SCCO) Downgraded by Zacks Investment Research to Hold
Newburgh Gazette
The insider CHESS ROBERT sold 6,400 shares worth $139,008. Winslow Evans & Crocker Inc. now owns 6,706 shares of the basic materials company's stock worth $267,000 after acquiring an additional 6,626 shares in the last quarter. The stock increased 0.19 ...

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