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Nature vs Nurture: Does Heritability Make an Athlete? - Medical News Bulletin
Medical News Bulletin
Medical News Bulletin
Are leaders born or created? Can someone learn to become a skilled athlete, or is inherent talent required? This age-old question has been contested by many modern and classic scientists throughout centuries including Hippocrates, the father of ...
Facebook, Google, and Huawei Fund New AR, VR “Reality Lab” at UW - Xconomy
Xconomy
Xconomy
The other co-leaders are assistant professor Ira Kemelmacher-Shlizerman, whose startup company, Dreambit, was acquired by Facebook in 2016, and where she is also a research scientist; and professor Brian Curless, an expert in computer graphics and 3D ...
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UW Reality Lab launches with $6M from tech companies to advance augmented and virtual reality research - UW Today
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UW Today
The $6 million UW Reality Lab, funded with equal contributions from the three initial sponsors, creates one of the world's first academic centers dedicated to virtual and augmented reality. The new center in the Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science ...
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UW Reality Lab launches with $6M from tech companies to advance augmented and virtual reality research - UW Today
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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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Singularity Skepticism 3: How to Measure AI Performance - Freedom to Tinker
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Clever research by Ken Regan and others has shown that the best chess programs today have fairly low error rates and therefore are approaching the Rating of God. Regan's research suggests that the RoG is around 3600, which is notable because the best ...
Why Scientists Solve the Hard Problems First - Bloomberg
Bloomberg
Bloomberg
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 ...
Bob Brockie: Astronomers had a great year - Stuff.co.nz
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Stuff.co.nz
Last year, artificial intelligence research made great strides. In the third of three matches in China, an AI program beat the world champion at Go – a fearsomely more complex game than chess while, last March, Carnegie Mellon University's Libratus AI ...
Modern Life: Death! Destruction! Good times! - Bonner County Daily Bee
Bonner County Daily Bee
No matter where you live (even in Idaho) there's a chess club where you'll find someone as good, or bad, as you to match wits with. Yes, there are chess geniuses out there, and I don't understand what they're doing any more than you do. But it doesn't ...
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Death! Destruction! Good times! - Idaho State Journal
Idaho State Journal
Idaho State Journal
No matter where you live (even in Idaho) there's a chess club where you'll find someone as good, or bad, as you to match wits with. Yes, there are chess geniuses out there, and I don't understand what they're doing any more than you do. Bu it doesn't ...
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Modern Life: Death! Destruction! Good times! - Twin Falls Times-News
Twin Falls Times-News
Twin Falls Times-News
No matter where you live (even in Idaho) there's a chess club where you'll find someone as good, or bad, as you to match wits with. Yes, there are chess geniuses out there, and I don't understand what they're doing any more than you do. But it doesn't ...
Exclusive Interview with Prof. Steve Deng: Using AI to Develop Blockchain - Bitcoinist
Bitcoinist
Bitcoinist
In October 2017, a research paper published in the international academic journal Nature showed that Deepmind, the affiliated company of Google, reported the new program “AlphaGo Zero”, the program can learn chess quickly by itself without any input ...
Female Chess Champion Refuses to Defend World Titles in Saudi Arabia - CNSNews.com (blog)
CNSNews.com (blog)
CNSNews.com (blog)
In protest of Saudi Arabia's treatment of women, Anna Muzychuk refused to defend her world titles in both the Rapid chess and Blitz chess competitions, held Dec. 26-30, 2017 in the Arab state. On Dec. 23, Muzychuk, a 27 year-old Ukrainian, posted on ...
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An institute studying 'existential risk' has made a Civilization mod about superintelligent AI - The Verge
The Verge
The Verge
IBM's Deep Blue computer appears as a wonder in the game, giving players a boost to their AI research. Image: CSER / STEAM. The result is a pair of mods for Civilization V and its DLC Brave New World that replace the game's usual science-based victory ...
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Imperial launches MBA elective on the importance of strategy in volatile business environments - eFinancialCareers
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eFinancialCareers
Yet other businesses are also facing a lot of competitive uncertainty from escalating rivalry, such as the recent intensifying competition between Google and Amazon. To make things even more complex, for many companies different dimensions of ...
From Chess To Ex Machina, Artificial Intelligence Is On The Verge Of Heralding A Cultural Revolution - MensXP.com
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MensXP.com
But it was in 1963 that AI leap, when the US Government's Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) issued a grant of $2 million to MIT for Project MAC, which brought together computer science researchers from across MIT. Part of this was a ...
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Brain training doesn't improve your general intelligence - Observer
Observer
From doing Sudoku every morning to playing more chess to learning a musical instrument, lots of people try different ways to become smarter and improve their memory. Thirty-five years after a landmark memory training experiment in 1982, have scientists ...
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Brain training doesn't improve your general intelligence - Observer
Observer
From doing Sudoku every morning to playing more chess to learning a musical instrument, lots of people try different ways to become smarter and improve their memory. Thirty-five years after a landmark memory training experiment in 1982, have scientists ...
Chess, Tulips, And Loss Aversion: The Psychology Of Risk And Reward - ValueWalk
ValueWalk
ValueWalk
Stress plays an important in our decision-making skills, as shown in this research document put together by Mara Mather and Nichole R. Lighthall. Their work highlights the fact that our brains process risk and reward differently when under stress, with ...
Staten Island obituaries for Jan. 4, 2018 - SILive.com
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Rosemarie Boutcher, 87, of Concord, a retired housekeeper at Eger Nursing Home and a parishioner of St. Sylvester's R.C. Church, died Saturday. Native Staten Islander Steven L. Mielke, 55, a graduate of Monsignor Farrell High School and research ...
Superstar Chess Algorithm Might Change the Game - OZY
OZY
OZY
The neural network chess machine AlphaZero, developed by Google's DeepMind artificial intelligence research department, destroyed the previous top program, Stockfish, winning 28 games, drawing 72 and losing zero. Unlike Stockfish, AlphaZero is self ...
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