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Valeant: It's Not a Game of Chess- Part I - GuruFocus.com

Thu, 03/16/2017 - 11:25

Valeant: It's Not a Game of Chess- Part I
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These are traditional pharmaceutical companies that spent billions of dollars on research and development to come up with blockbuster small molecule drugs such as Lipitor and Crestor, although now almost all of them have made inroads into biological ...

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Could use an ape playing chess - Arizona Daily Sun

Thu, 03/16/2017 - 08:14

Arizona Daily Sun

Could use an ape playing chess
Arizona Daily Sun
Preston Packard (Samuel L. Jackson) is disappointed that his command of a helicopter squadron in southeast Asia is almost finished, and researcher Bill Randa (John Goodman) sees his final chance to ring some research funds—and a military escort—out ...

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A new study reveals that certain drugs may make you smarter than we thought - South China Morning Post

Thu, 03/16/2017 - 00:25

South China Morning Post

A new study reveals that certain drugs may make you smarter than we thought
South China Morning Post
The researchers selected 40 above-average chess players for the study. All were men, with an average age of 37 and an average IQ of 127.7. The group had an average Elo rating (a rating system for chess skill) in the 1670s, which puts them significantly ...

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Ambitious first-year students catch the research bug - Cornell Chronicle

Wed, 03/15/2017 - 16:20

Cornell Chronicle

Ambitious first-year students catch the research bug
Cornell Chronicle
Graduating a year early from Lansing High School, just outside of Ithaca, Campello contacted Cornell physics professor Jim Alexander, who connected him to staff at the Cornell High Energy Synchrotron Source (CHESS). They gave him a tour, and Campello ...

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DeepMind research brings strong AI one step closer - The Engineer

Wed, 03/15/2017 - 08:11

The Engineer

DeepMind research brings strong AI one step closer
The Engineer
However, if you asked AlphaGo to take on Gary Kasparov in a game of chess, it would have to start learning that game from scratch, permanently leaving behind its enormous Go knowledge. This is known in cognitive science as catastrophic forgetting, and ...
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Scientists Need You to Solve This Chess Problem and Find the Key to Human Consciousness - ScienceAlert

Tue, 03/14/2017 - 02:12

Daily Mail

Scientists Need You to Solve This Chess Problem and Find the Key to Human Consciousness
ScienceAlert
Obviously, a little chess puzzle alone isn't going to reveal the key to human consciousness, but it's an intriguing approach to what seems like an impossible question, and we're pretty damn curious to see what the researchers make of the public's ...
Does quantum theory explain human consciousness? | Daily Mail ...Daily Mail

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Scientists need you to solve this chess problem to help find the key ... - ScienceAlert

Tue, 03/14/2017 - 02:03

ZME Science

Scientists need you to solve this chess problem to help find the key ...
ScienceAlert
Consciousness is the most important quality of a human being, but scientists have struggled for millennia to explain it - where does it come from, and how does it ...
Scientists ask the public's help in getting to the bottom of ...ZME Science

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Scientists need you to solve this chess problem and find the key to ... - ScienceAlert

Tue, 03/14/2017 - 02:03

Daily Mail

Scientists need you to solve this chess problem and find the key to ...
ScienceAlert
Consciousness is the most important quality of a human being, but scientists have struggled for millennia to explain it - where does it come from, and how does it ...
Does quantum theory explain human consciousness? | Daily Mail ...Daily Mail

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CHESS Knights earn pair of bids to compete in out-of-state robotics contests - My SSnews.com

Mon, 03/13/2017 - 16:11

CHESS Knights earn pair of bids to compete in out-of-state robotics contests
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11 picked up yet another STEM Research Project Award at the Greenville Vex IQ Crossover Middle School Tournament. On March 4, the CHESS Knights team won a Design Award at the North Texas Vex IQ Worlds. They will be competing in Kentucky against ...

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Northwest Kidney Centers invests $15M in Center for Dialysis Innovation - Puget Sound Business Journal (Seattle) (blog)

Mon, 03/13/2017 - 15:09

Puget Sound Business Journal (Seattle) (blog)

Northwest Kidney Centers invests $15M in Center for Dialysis Innovation
Puget Sound Business Journal (Seattle) (blog)
How a love of chess and an English degree turn into a career in Medical research. Courtesy of UW. “We are incredibly grateful to Northwest Kidney Centers for the gift to launch the Kidney Research Institute in 2008, and now for such a significant boost ...

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Olivia Newton-John to perform at Adler May 13 - Quad-Cities Online

Mon, 03/13/2017 - 10:02

Quad-Cities Online

Olivia Newton-John to perform at Adler May 13
Quad-Cities Online
Also in 1992, she was diagnosed with breast cancer, which she has beaten. It led her to partner with Austin Health to create the Olivia Newton-John Cancer Wellness & Research Centre in her hometown of Melbourne, Australia. After about 10 years of ...

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Trying to stop or at least slow dementia - Sacramento Bee

Mon, 03/13/2017 - 10:00

Trying to stop or at least slow dementia
Sacramento Bee
Tell your friends and associates that you have dementia, or write a column about it, and be prepared for a well-intentioned bombardment of possible remedies: Eat cashew nuts, cook with coconut oil, drink ginger root and turmeric tea, play more pingpong ...

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Macon County owed thousands by state for prisoner autopsies - Quad-Cities Online

Mon, 03/13/2017 - 09:14

Macon County owed thousands by state for prisoner autopsies
Quad-Cities Online
1967 -- 50 years ago: Steve Eagles, East Moline, won the Quad City chess championship with a perfect 6-0 score to conclude the double round robin tournament in the LeClaire Hotel last night. Eagles became the eighth man to hold the Quad City ...

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Experts: Springing ahead can also cause health problems - WNYT

Sun, 03/12/2017 - 17:59

WNYT

Experts: Springing ahead can also cause health problems
WNYT
Wong had to get up early Sunday morning for a chess tournament with her son, Ellis, in Saratoga Springs. She says he could have used that extra hour to focus more. "It's been really tough getting up and getting into game ... In addition, the state ...

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The 10000-hour rule is wrong and perpetuates a cruel myth - Business Insider

Sun, 03/12/2017 - 15:53

Business Insider

The 10000-hour rule is wrong and perpetuates a cruel myth
Business Insider
A decade ago, Magnus Carlsen, who at the time was only 13 years old, created a sensation in the chess world when he defeated former world champion Anatoly Karpov at a chess tournament in Reykjavik, Iceland, and the next day played then-top-rated Garry ...

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Podcast: Using GPUs and AI to Fight Cybercrime - insideHPC

Sun, 03/12/2017 - 11:36

insideHPC

Podcast: Using GPUs and AI to Fight Cybercrime
insideHPC
For the past ten years, he has been teaching courses on deep learning and evolutionary computation at Bar-Ilan University, in addition to supervising the research of graduate students in these fields. He has also served in numerous capacities ...

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