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Alibaba's artificial intelligence bot beats humans at reading in a first for machines - South China Morning Post

Sun, 01/14/2018 - 21:35

South China Morning Post

Alibaba's artificial intelligence bot beats humans at reading in a first for machines
South China Morning Post
The AI research arm of China's biggest online commerce company developed a machine-learning model that scored higher on the Stanford Question Answering Dataset, a large-scale reading comprehension test with more than 100,000 questions, according to a ...

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Nuclear Deterrence Equation in South Asia: Chess vs. Chess - Modern Diplomacy

Sun, 01/14/2018 - 18:39

Modern Diplomacy

Nuclear Deterrence Equation in South Asia: Chess vs. Chess
Modern Diplomacy
Once launched, nuclear weapons were nearly impossible to stop and even limited use would result in civilization ending consequences. In former US President Reagan's words, nuclear war was “unthinkable”. The knowledge that entire nations could be ...

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Nuclear Deterrence Equation in South Asia: Chess vs. Chess - Modern Diplomacy

Sun, 01/14/2018 - 09:58

Modern Diplomacy

Nuclear Deterrence Equation in South Asia: Chess vs. Chess
Modern Diplomacy
Once launched, nuclear weapons were nearly impossible to stop and even limited use would result in civilization ending consequences. In former US President Reagan's words, nuclear war was “unthinkable”. The knowledge that entire nations could be ...

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Documentary explores Tuxedo Park radar innovator who helped change course of WW II - Times Herald-Record

Sat, 01/13/2018 - 16:29

Times Herald-Record

Documentary explores Tuxedo Park radar innovator who helped change course of WW II
Times Herald-Record
Loomis opened his lavish home to a research team of foreign refugee doctors and scientists, who also enjoyed the more-than-three-acres of rolling lawns and gardens, regular black-tie dinners parties and more brilliant minds than there was time to pick ...

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Vapemeisters opens in Downtown Racine - Journal Times

Fri, 01/12/2018 - 18:58

Journal Times

Vapemeisters opens in Downtown Racine
Journal Times
Some research backs up the claim that vaping can help people quit smoking; other research indicates the opposite, and scientific evidence is considered inconclusive. Vapemeisers carries more than 100 flavors and 40 to 50 brands of vape products ...

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SOC | Must-Haves: Interleague | 1/12/18 - Daily Fantasy Insider (press release)

Fri, 01/12/2018 - 09:08

Daily Fantasy Insider (press release)

SOC | Must-Haves: Interleague | 1/12/18
Daily Fantasy Insider (press release)
He's that player that can step up fantasy-wise as he is given responsibility of set-pieces when Lienard, their main guy, has been away from the game this season. Goncalves offers a very good floor considering his price, and is a no-brainer for your 2nd ...

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Google's deep-learning Alpha Zero masters chess from scratch in 4 hours––then doesn't lose - Genetic Literacy Project

Fri, 01/12/2018 - 08:04

Genetic Literacy Project

Google's deep-learning Alpha Zero masters chess from scratch in 4 hours––then doesn't lose
Genetic Literacy Project
The Alpha Zero neural network uses reinforcement learning to teach itself things from scratch. It does not rely on previous knowledge - which in the case of chess is surprising, as the mass of knowledge on the game accumulated in centuries of ...

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BETHLEHEM LIBRARY: A Time for Tea - Spotlight News

Fri, 01/12/2018 - 07:05

Spotlight News

BETHLEHEM LIBRARY: A Time for Tea
Spotlight News
... to our research and database resources. Anyone can access it inside the library, and Bethlehem cardholders will also be able to log in offsite. Students can search a collection of more than 115,000 articles, newspapers, videos, atlases and more in ...

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Techmate: How AI rewrote the rules of chess - Financial Times

Fri, 01/12/2018 - 04:31

Financial Times

Techmate: How AI rewrote the rules of chess
Financial Times
The breakthrough came 21 moves into one of the 100 games between the two machines: Stockfish 8, one of the world's leading computer chess engines; and AlphaZero, an upstart program developed by DeepMind, Google's artificial intelligence research arm ...

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Techmate: How AI rewrote the rules of chess - Financial Times

Fri, 01/12/2018 - 02:00
Techmate: How AI rewrote the rules of chess  Financial Times

Does the human-like strategy of Google's AlphaZero represent the dawn of flexible computers?

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Synopsys Forms Technical Advisory Board for Software Integrity Group - Dark Reading

Thu, 01/11/2018 - 11:25

Synopsys Forms Technical Advisory Board for Software Integrity Group
Dark Reading
The initial board members include Dr. Brian Chess (Oracle), Dr. Neil Daswani (Symantec), Dr. Charlie Miller (Cruise Automation), and Dr. Laurie Williams(North Carolina State University). Brian Chess , Ph.D., is global vice president of infrastructure ...

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Robots and time travel at CES 2018 - euronews

Wed, 01/10/2018 - 12:50

euronews

Robots and time travel at CES 2018
euronews
Anyone who came for the robot companions, won't be disappointed. Robots are everywhere, doing chores, playing games and providing companionship. One, from the Industrial Technology Research Institute, plays scrabble. It uses 3-D vision recognition and ...

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Why scientists solve the harder problems first - Kankakee Daily Journal

Wed, 01/10/2018 - 07:51

Why scientists solve the harder problems first
Kankakee Daily Journal
I posed the colds-versus-black-hole puzzle to Edward Tenner, a historian at Princeton University, whose upcoming book is titled "The Efficiency Paradox: What Big Data Can't Do." He pointed out people often underestimate the brilliance of nature — and ...

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The 10 most important breakthroughs in Artificial Intelligence - TechRadar

Wed, 01/10/2018 - 03:02

TechRadar

The 10 most important breakthroughs in Artificial Intelligence
TechRadar
“Artificial Intelligence” is currently the hottest buzzword in tech. And with good reason - after decades of research and development, the last few years have seen a number of techniques that have previously been the preserve of science fiction slowly ...

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UW Reality Lab launches with $6M from tech companies to advance augmented and virtual reality research - UW Today

Wed, 01/10/2018 - 00:16

UW Today

UW Reality Lab launches with $6M from tech companies to advance augmented and virtual reality research
UW Today
“Allen School faculty have produced pioneering research in many of the areas that underpin AR and VR technologies, including computer vision, graphics, perception, and machine learning,” said Hank Levy, Allen School director and Wissner-Slivka Chair in ...

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Faye Flam: Why is finding a cure for the common cold so difficult? - Allentown Morning Call

Tue, 01/09/2018 - 16:26

Allentown Morning Call

Faye Flam: Why is finding a cure for the common cold so difficult?
Allentown Morning Call
In artificial intelligence research, for example, it's been possible to create computers with superhuman abilities in chess and other games, such as Go, but very hard to reproduce something little children do naturally — deal with the ambiguity of ...

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UW Reality Lab launches with $6 million from tech companies to advance AR/VR research - Telepresence Options

Tue, 01/09/2018 - 13:55

Telepresence Options

UW Reality Lab launches with $6 million from tech companies to advance AR/VR research
Telepresence Options
The UW Reality Lab builds on the Allen School's established leadership in cutting-edge AR/VR education and research. In one example, the school in 2016 introduced the world's first augmented reality capstone course, in which students built AR ...

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Pivot Points in Focus: Chess Supersite Corp (CHZP) - Nelson Research

Tue, 01/09/2018 - 12:09

Pivot Points in Focus: Chess Supersite Corp (CHZP)
Nelson Research
One of the technical analysis indicators used to glean the overall trend of the market over differing time periods are pivot points. The pivot point itself is where the average of the high, low and closing prices from the previous day's trading ...

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Orthodox Christmas in Southern Serbia, Oaks and Casual Cruelties - Center for Research on Globalization

Tue, 01/09/2018 - 07:36

Center for Research on Globalization

Orthodox Christmas in Southern Serbia, Oaks and Casual Cruelties
Center for Research on Globalization
In a region of Serbia where the Albanian presence is vigorous and strong, and, in some parts, dominant, the move is less than prudent. Chess pieces are moving on this particularly chess board of Balkan concern, and the moves are not looking pretty ...

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University of Cambridge creates 'superintelligence' for Civilization V - Dot Esports

Mon, 01/08/2018 - 21:09

Dot Esports

University of Cambridge creates 'superintelligence' for Civilization V
Dot Esports
... to research "superintelligence" technologies as part of the game's tech tree, bringing along some serious consequences for ambitious players who plow through the research a bit too fast. The mod, which can be downloaded through the Steam Workshop ...

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