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Chess will be a co-curricular activity at Malvern College Hong Kong - South China Morning Post
South China Morning Post
South China Morning Post
Academic research has proved that students who regularly play chess develop better concentration, as well as more effective logical and analytical skills. Chess also improves reading, writing, speaking, and reasoning abilities. The game helps students ...
Researchers Reveal Secrets of Libratus Poker AI - Casino.Org News
Casino.Org News
Casino.Org News
... the researchers say their work will have impact well beyond the felt. “The techniques that we developed are largely domain independent and can thus be applied to other strategic imperfect-information interactions, including non-recreational ...
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Researchers reveal how poker playing AI beat the best human players - ZDNet
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ZDNet
screen-shot-2017-12-19-at-08-26- Carnegie Mellon University. Mastering your facial expressions, learning when to bluff and when to raise -- poker is a game not only of luck but of technique and tactics. In the face of artificial intelligence (AI ...
Superhuman AI 'Libratus' Defeated Top Texas Hold'em Poker Pros, Creators Tell How It WorksFossbytes
Researchers Discover Inner Workings of Unbeatable Artificial Intelligence Poker PlayerElectronics360
Carnegie Mellon Reveals Inner Workings of Victorious AIHPCwire
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Superhuman AI 'Libratus' Defeated Top Texas Hold'em Poker Pros, Creators Tell How It Works - Fossbytes
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Fossbytes
The researchers again proved their AI's poker skills several months later during a poker competition held in China where they used a new version of the AI called Lengpudashi. The reason why the AI's victory in Texas Hold'em Poker is different is ...
Researchers Discover Inner Workings of Unbeatable Artificial Intelligence Poker PlayerElectronics360
Carnegie Mellon Reveals Inner Workings of Victorious AIHPCwire
Revealed: How Libratus bot felted poker pros – and now it has cyber-security in its sightsThe Register
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Canadian singer Elise LeGrow reimagines the classic R&B of Chess Records - 89.3 KPCC
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89.3 KPCC
Interview Highlights: On what she likes about early R&B vocalists: Listening to singers like Aretha Franklin, Etta James, Martha Reeves — there are so many colors and textures to their voices and it means that years later, you're listening and it's ...
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Carnegie Mellon Reveals Inner Workings of Victorious AI - HPCwire
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In a paper published online Sunday by the journal Science, Tuomas Sandholm, professor of computer science, and Noam Brown, a Ph.D. student in the Computer Science Department, detail how their AI was able to achieve superhuman performance by breaking ...
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Researchers Discover Inner Workings of Unbeatable Artificial Intelligence Poker Player - Electronics360
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Electronics360
Tumoas Sandholm, professor of computer science, and Noam Brown, a Ph.D. student at the Computer Science Department says that their AI was able to achieve superhuman performance by breaking the game into smaller, manageable parts, and it is based on the ...
Carnegie Mellon reveals inner workings of victorious AIEurekAlert (press release)
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Alleged Cheater Expelled From Spanish Tournament - Chess.com
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Chess.com
An amateur chess player was expelled from a chess tournament in Benidorm, Spain after an electronic device similar to a TV remote control was found in his pants. The player, who was a participant of the B tournament for players with an Elo below 2000 ...
Chinese tech groups look for edge in using artificial intelligence - Financial Times
Financial Times
Financial Times
Lung cancer affords one example: in the US, UK and much of the world, the main cause is smoking. That is not the case in Hong Kong, Taiwan and South China, where there is also far more prevalence among women. Other early stage efforts that have come in ...
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Artificial intelligence is helping astronomers discover new planets - Wired.co.uk
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Wired.co.uk
Christopher Shallue, a senior software engineer with Google's research team Google AI, and Andrew Vanderburg, astronomer at The University of Texas, Austin, trained a computer to learn how to identify exoplanets in the light readings recorded by Kepler ...
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Qatar- Aurelius and Windstream's game of default chess to be probed - MENAFN.COM
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Aurelius and Windstream's game of default chess to be probedGulf Times
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Aurelius and Windstream's game of default chess to be probed - Gulf Times
Gulf Times
Gulf Times
“Aurelius is definitely trying to manufacture a default,” said Stephen Hazelton, founder of Street Diligence, a research firm that analyses credit agreements. “The question is whether or not their argument is valid.” Representatives for Windstream and ...
DeepMind creates tests that may prevent AI apocalypse - The Japan News
The Japan News
Bloomberg LONDON (Bloomberg) — You don't have to agree with Elon Musk's apocalyptic fears of artificial intelligence to be concerned that, in the rush to apply the technology in the real world, some algorithms could inadvertently cause harm. Now ...
Chess for Success marks 25th anniversary - KTVZ
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KTVZ
PORTLAND, Ore. - The mission of Chess for Success is to help children develop the skills necessary for success in school and in life through learning chess. In 1992 Dick Roy, Phil Margolin, and Frank Eiseman saw a need in their community for chess ...
ASU applied mathematics doctoral grad found inspiration in high school math program - Arizona State University
Arizona State University
Arizona State University
Editor's note: This is part of a series of profiles for fall 2017 commencement. See more graduates here. Arizona State University graduate Javier Baez was interested in chess at an early age and enjoyed solving puzzles. He liked math but did not think ...
Aurelius and Windstream's Game of Debt Chess Heads to Court - BloombergQuint
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BloombergQuint
... trial in May. As the hearing approaches, credit and restructuring experts say the closely watched drama will set precedents for whether defaults can be manufactured -- as Windstream argues is the case here -- in a slow restructuring market ...
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Hedge Fund Takes Rural Phone Company to Court Over Debt Drama - Bloomberg
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The Uniti transaction doesn't appear to have breached covenants to begin with, the independent credit research firm said in a Dec. 8 note. Yet even if Windstream triumphs against Aurelius in court, it may not be the end of this restructuring saga. The ...
Armenia to have Scientific Research Institute of Chess - Information-Analytic Agency NEWS.am (press release) (blog)
Information-Analytic Agency NEWS.am (press release) (blog)
Information-Analytic Agency NEWS.am (press release) (blog)
YEREVAN. – The government of Armenia has allocated 31.9 million drams (about US$66,000) from the reserve fund, for the establishment of the Scientific Research Institute of Chess. The decision to this effect was adopted at Thursday's Cabinet meeting of ...
Checkmate: DeepMind's AlphaZero AI clobbered rival chess app on non-level playing, er, board - The Register
The Register
The Register
“Starting from random play, and given no domain knowledge except the game rules, AlphaZero achieved within 24 hours a superhuman level of play in the games of chess and shogi (Japanese chess) as well as Go, and convincingly defeated a world-champion ...
Inferior by Angela Saini wins Physics World's 2017 Book of the Year - physicsworld.com
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Saini found that the clashing research results were a feature of the controversy within the fields themselves, thanks to bias, prejudice and speculation by the researchers themselves. The book touches upon controversial gender studies in in biology ...