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Mathnasium hosts chess tournament to raise money for brain cancer research - WTVM

Wed, 08/03/2016 - 14:38

Mathnasium hosts chess tournament to raise money for brain cancer research
WTVM
COLUMBUS, GA (WTVM) -. The Mathnasium Chess Club of Columbus and Championship Chess are proud to present their FOCUS Back2School Chess Tournament. This tournament will focus on raising awareness and supporting families battling a rare form ...

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Calgary Fringe Festival: nerdf***er a heart-wrenching 60 minutes - Calgary Herald

Wed, 08/03/2016 - 13:36

Calgary Herald

Calgary Fringe Festival: nerdf***er a heart-wrenching 60 minutes
Calgary Herald
A pair of chess players will play their match on a board laminated onto her back as she becomes a naked piece of human furniture. The audience plays the role of spectators who either really want to watch the chess match, or simply to gawk at a woman ...

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Google DeepMind: The smart person's guide - TechRepublic

Wed, 08/03/2016 - 12:06

TechRepublic

Google DeepMind: The smart person's guide
TechRepublic
With the boom in AI affecting virtually every industry, there has been an explosion in the research and development of machine learning, a subfield of AI. And, perhaps, no system better illustrates what machine learning is capable of than Google's ...

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UK desperately short of trade experts to lead Brexit talks - Minneapolis Star Tribune

Wed, 08/03/2016 - 11:17

UK desperately short of trade experts to lead Brexit talks
Minneapolis Star Tribune
"It is multi-dimensional chess," says Butler, an adviser to former Prime Minister Gordon Brown. "This will take longer, it will be less simple, and the outcome will be more clouded and ... While Britain would need only eight bilateral agreements to ...

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UK desperately short of trade experts to lead Brexit talks - Salon

Wed, 08/03/2016 - 11:15

Salon

UK desperately short of trade experts to lead Brexit talks
Salon
“It is multi-dimensional chess,” says Butler, an adviser to former Prime Minister Gordon Brown. “This will take longer, it will be less simple, and the outcome will be more clouded and ... While Britain would need only eight bilateral agreements to ...

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Tesla Shares Being Recalled For A Shareholder Vote (And Other Myths...) - Seeking Alpha

Wed, 08/03/2016 - 08:53

Tesla Shares Being Recalled For A Shareholder Vote (And Other Myths...)
Seeking Alpha
Musk has borrowed against his shares, which means they are in a margin account and available to be borrowed. Short sellers may feel strongly about their positions but are never “desperate” about the performance of individual positions. Margin calls do ...

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Tamed Banks and Unequal Markets - Bloomberg

Wed, 08/03/2016 - 08:26

Tamed Banks and Unequal Markets
Bloomberg
I don't know, do you think in 20 years there will still be people who sit around reading research reports and examining economic data and then deciding which stocks or bonds or currencies to buy? Right now, computers are better than humans at chess and ...

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Meeting strangers in the VR wilderness - Engadget

Wed, 08/03/2016 - 07:01

Engadget

Meeting strangers in the VR wilderness
Engadget
The chess pieces are scattered across the board. As I pick up the rook and .... Spatial OS can support many types of experiences: video games, such as the MetaWorld and the equally persistent Worlds Adrift, city simulations and medical research. The ...

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Is Donald Trump Blowing It? - FiveThirtyEight

Wed, 08/03/2016 - 05:33

FiveThirtyEight

Is Donald Trump Blowing It?
FiveThirtyEight
natesilver: I just want to resist the interpretation that any of this is coming from a rational part of Trump's brain, whether as part of some brilliant 12-dimensional chess strategy, or even a strategy at all really. Maybe that's a reasonable prior ...

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Technology and investing: this time may be different - Cuffelinks (blog)

Wed, 08/03/2016 - 05:27

Technology and investing: this time may be different
Cuffelinks (blog)
Toward this end, I am fond of telling the tale of the inventor of chess and his patron, the Emperor of China. ... Companies such as Alphabet (Google), Facebook, Microsoft, IBM, Alibaba, Baidu, Amazon and Apple are investing unprecedented amounts of ...

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Employment growth has slowed down in last 3 years: Government - Economic Times

Wed, 08/03/2016 - 05:24

Employment growth has slowed down in last 3 years: Government
Economic Times
MUMBAI: Nineteen research and academic associates from the Indian School of Business have bagged offers for PhD programmes from highly ranked universities across the world. This is the highest number of offers in the institute's academic history ...

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Wednesday's 3 Things: NBSS Violin, Summer Fitness, Movie Night, Plastic Bag Ban? - NorthEndWaterfront.com

Wed, 08/03/2016 - 05:08

Wednesday's 3 Things: NBSS Violin, Summer Fitness, Movie Night, Plastic Bag Ban?
NorthEndWaterfront.com
'Talks in the Rotunda' with Dr. Karilyn Crockett, Director of Economic Policy and Research for the City of Boston. Crockett will be speaking about the City of Boston's ... 5:30pm Blitz Chess Tournaments at Faneuil Hall Marketplace. We're bringing a ...

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Online recruitment activity up 19% in July: Survey - Economic Times

Wed, 08/03/2016 - 04:48

Online recruitment activity up 19% in July: Survey
Economic Times
MUMBAI: Nineteen research and academic associates from the Indian School of Business have bagged offers for PhD programmes from highly ranked universities across the world. This is the highest number of offers in the institute's academic history ...

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Updater Inc gains larger share of U.S. household moves - Proactive Investors Australia

Wed, 08/03/2016 - 01:04

Updater Inc gains larger share of U.S. household moves
Proactive Investors Australia
The New York based company listed on the ASX in December 2015 via Chess Depository Interests (CDIs) for foreign companies. Proactive Investors Australia is the market leader in producing news, articles and research reports on ASX emerging companies ...

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Hey Trump, you're a loser - Bluffton Today

Tue, 08/02/2016 - 23:22

Bluffton Today

Hey Trump, you're a loser
Bluffton Today
I was the research director and he was an overeager college dropout volunteer who was too young to buy his own beer. To me, personal friendship trumps politics (no pun intended). Now, back to Trump and why he won't win. First, the numbers. ... Former ...

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Lexicon showdown: Word Cup 2016 draws Scrabble pros to Tempe - East Valley Tribune

Tue, 08/02/2016 - 22:28

East Valley Tribune

Lexicon showdown: Word Cup 2016 draws Scrabble pros to Tempe
East Valley Tribune
Cohen, whose day job is director of institutional research at Scottsdale Community College, added, “Many have tried to learn all 20,000 plus seven letter words and the 25,000-plus eight-letter words, myself included. Not that we succeed in learning all ...

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What Is Artificial Intelligence? - Government Technology

Tue, 08/02/2016 - 11:07

Government Technology

What Is Artificial Intelligence?
Government Technology
Government holds out hope for AI research to solve a broad range of problems, from social issues and public safety, to more efficient management of back office functions. Firm IPSoft developed a "cognitive agent" named Amelia to help governments get ...

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What are the signs of a genius? - NAIJ.COM

Tue, 08/02/2016 - 11:06

NAIJ.COM

What are the signs of a genius?
NAIJ.COM
Their abilities remind superheroes' from blockbusters: they can speak fifteen languages since very young age, win the chess match with five moves, and calculate the millions less than for a second. But there is some kind of price for these extra ...

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Indians have higher workplace satisfaction: Survey - Economic Times

Tue, 08/02/2016 - 09:09

Indians have higher workplace satisfaction: Survey
Economic Times
MUMBAI: Nineteen research and academic associates from the Indian School of Business have bagged offers for PhD programmes from highly ranked universities across the world. This is the highest number of offers in the institute's academic history ...

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Nektar Therapeutics (NASDAQ:NKTR) Analyst Opinion - Zergwatch

Tue, 08/02/2016 - 09:04

Nektar Therapeutics (NASDAQ:NKTR) Analyst Opinion
Zergwatch
There are 0 equity research firms suggesting a Hold and 0 consider it Sell. ... CHESS ROBERT is one of the largest insider shareholders in Nektar Therapeutics (NASDAQ:NKTR), according to U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) filings.

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