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Greens buoyant about snatching Batman - 9news.com.au

Tue, 06/21/2016 - 03:37

Greens buoyant about snatching Batman
9news.com.au
A Lonergan research poll gives the Greens' Alex Bhathal 41 per cent of the primary vote in Batman, ahead of Labor frontbencher David Feeney on 28 per cent and the Liberals' George Souris on 23 per cent. The poll, commissioned by the Greens, ... "People ...

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BrainDead recap: 'Playing Politics: Living Life in the Shadow of the Budget Showdown — a Critique' - Entertainment Weekly

Mon, 06/20/2016 - 22:00

Salon

BrainDead recap: 'Playing Politics: Living Life in the Shadow of the Budget Showdown — a Critique'
Entertainment Weekly
Annie has cancer, and the two are on a cross-country trip to visit a bunch of U.S. monuments and to raise money for cancer research. Their last stop is the Lincoln Memorial, but the only problem is that it's closed due to the shutdown. Laurel's moved ...
'BrainDead' Recap: A Lesson in Politics, Exploding Heads and Tax PromBuddyTV (blog)

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NBA trade rumors: Celtics going for Jaylen Brown? - ChristianToday

Mon, 06/20/2016 - 21:26

ChristianToday

NBA trade rumors: Celtics going for Jaylen Brown?
ChristianToday
CBS Sports reports that Boston is among the three franchises "who have done the most research on Cal's Jaylen Brown." The other two are the Phoenix Suns and the Minnesota Timberwolves. NBA trade rumors claim that the Celtics are so ... As a chess ...

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IBM Watson: Style and Substance - IT Business Edge (blog)

Mon, 06/20/2016 - 15:03

IBM Watson: Style and Substance
IT Business Edge (blog)
Most famously, Big Blue beat world chess champion Garry Kasparov in 1997. Four years later, Watson, in a form far more rudimentary than ... Now, Watson is a thriving business and research tool. The marketing continues, with luminaries such as Bob Dylan ...

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Necessary tools - Gazette

Mon, 06/20/2016 - 14:26

Gazette

Necessary tools
Gazette
Of course, game theory is relevant to parlor games such as chess or poker, but most economists focus on how people interact.” ... Students are also a key component in the success of Collaborative Applied Research in Economics (CARE). By involving ...

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Elementary schoolers' state of play - San Jose Mercury News

Mon, 06/20/2016 - 13:37

Elementary schoolers' state of play
San Jose Mercury News
Bronwyn Brantley enjoys running track almost as much as she enjoys swimming. Swimming is the greatest, other than chess, of course. There's nothing better than chess -- well, except ballet. Ballet beats chess and everything else in Bronwyn's busy life.

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Spending Time Practicing Won't Make You Great At Sports - AskMen

Mon, 06/20/2016 - 11:30

AskMen

Spending Time Practicing Won't Make You Great At Sports
AskMen
Researchers in the US and New Zealand looked at 52 data sets acquired from 2,765 athletes of varying skill and level and found that practice only plays a minor role in determining their overall success, and it makes even less of a difference the higher ...

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Weekend Roundup Zing!s - Tallahassee.com (blog)

Mon, 06/20/2016 - 10:15

Tallahassee.com (blog)

Weekend Roundup Zing!s
Tallahassee.com (blog)
So, the Progress Coalition would be fine with a grant from George Soros which explicitly tried to prove free will and free enterprise are bad things but will hysterically challenge a Koch grant supporting research into the formation and growth of a ...

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Twitter just acquired very cool London-based AI startup Magic Pony - City A.M.

Mon, 06/20/2016 - 09:23

City A.M.

Twitter just acquired very cool London-based AI startup Magic Pony
City A.M.
"Together with Twitter, we're looking forward to vastly accelerating our rate of research; growing our team, which will serve as the European homebase for Twitter's machine learning efforts; and continuing to publish. We've barely scratched the surface ...

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Inside Terence Crawford's training camp - Boxing News Online

Mon, 06/20/2016 - 07:23

Boxing News Online

Inside Terence Crawford's training camp
Boxing News Online
We play chess, dominoes, skating, bowling, just have fun like a family.” Crawford appreciates the variety of .... “I had done research on Ricky and he was touted as a cardio monster and he is,” Bolt recalled. “I took that as a challenge and changed the ...

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How To Get Better At Anything You Do - Task & Purpose

Mon, 06/20/2016 - 06:35

Task & Purpose

How To Get Better At Anything You Do
Task & Purpose
Boy or girl, each child would be built into a grandmaster chess player. This romantic ... The book is based on over three decades of research from Ericsson, who has studied the development of expertise in athletics, music, business, and government ...

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Willingboro valedictorian builds on district's engineering legacy - Burlington County Times

Mon, 06/20/2016 - 04:04

Burlington County Times

Willingboro valedictorian builds on district's engineering legacy
Burlington County Times
Board of Education President Kimbrali Davis, who works in the engineering field as a research project manager for the New Jersey Department of Transportation, said she credits the teachers and the district's science and math curriculums for inspiring ...

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Japanese researchers take artificial intelligence toward the final frontier: creativity - The Japan Times

Mon, 06/20/2016 - 01:03

The Japan Times

Japanese researchers take artificial intelligence toward the final frontier: creativity
The Japan Times
Matsubara, who has been researching AI since the 1980s, came up with the idea of AI-generated novels around 2010, when computers started beating chess and shogi (Japanese chess) champions. “I thought what separated AI from humans was that AI had ...

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Artificial intelligence of dreamers is coming - Fort Wayne Journal Gazette

Mon, 06/20/2016 - 00:14

Artificial intelligence of dreamers is coming
Fort Wayne Journal Gazette
That is essentially how IBM's Big Blue computer beat chess Grandmaster Garry Kasparov in 1997, by using a supercomputer to calculate every possible move faster than he could. Today's AI uses machine learning, in which you give it examples of previous ...

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Suellentrop: Five myths about video games - DeKalb Daily Chronicle

Sun, 06/19/2016 - 23:36

Suellentrop: Five myths about video games
DeKalb Daily Chronicle
According to a Pew Research Center survey published in December, 60 percent of Americans believe that “most people who play video games are men.” Top-selling games such as Call of Duty and Madden NFL tend to be marketed to men, and almost three ...

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Pavilion inducts two to Hall of Fame - The Daily News Online

Sun, 06/19/2016 - 23:33

Pavilion inducts two to Hall of Fame
The Daily News Online
He also participated in the school plays and was a member of the Chess Club. .... Cambridge Half Blue for Basketball; IBM Faculty Development Award; Professeur Honoraire at Swiss Federal Institute of Technology; Visiting Professor at Science University ...

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Meet Saif Ahmad Khan: 'Save the Quest' NGO Founder makes Education more flexible for Specially-Abled and ... - http://www.newsgram.com/

Sun, 06/19/2016 - 20:25

http://www.newsgram.com/

Meet Saif Ahmad Khan: 'Save the Quest' NGO Founder makes Education more flexible for Specially-Abled and ...
http://www.newsgram.com/
The children are also introduced with sports, and are also taught chess. For his ... Saif has also published a book within a team of 12 students named 'Opportunities and Barriers for Students with Disabilities' under the research of University of Delhi ...

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Five myths about video games - The Denver Post

Sun, 06/19/2016 - 18:27

The Denver Post

Five myths about video games
The Denver Post
According to a Pew Research Center survey published in December, 60 percent of Americans believe that “most people who play video games are men. ... Playing chess – whether on a physical board or a screen – doesn't confer any of these benefits.

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LeBron James Against Steph Curry: Who Will Win? - Forbes

Sun, 06/19/2016 - 09:56

Forbes

LeBron James Against Steph Curry: Who Will Win?
Forbes
Through years of practice, they develop highly complex and sophisticated representations of the various situations they are likely to encounter in their fields— such as the vast number of arrangements of chess pieces that can appear during games ...

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Five enduring myths about video games - Tyler Morning Telegraph

Sun, 06/19/2016 - 09:07

Five enduring myths about video games
Tyler Morning Telegraph
According to a Pew Research Center survey published in December, 60 percent of Americans believe that "most people who play video games are men. ... Playing chess - whether on a physical board or a screen - doesn't confer any of these benefits.

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