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Violent video games eventually lose their ability to produce guilt in gamers - UB News Center
UB News Center
Gamers often claim their actions in a video game are as meaningless to the real world as players capturing pawns on a chess board. Yet, previous research by Grizzard and others shows that immoral virtual actions can elicit higher levels of guilt than ...
How can deep learning impact healthcare? - News-Medical.net
News-Medical.net
News-Medical.net
Professor Neil Lawrence, University of Sheffield, however, is disappointed it took so long for deep learning to crack the game of Go, particularly when computer programs were able to beat humans at Chess over 20 years ago. Lawrence described the data ...
Club News - Lowell Sun
Lowell Sun
TEWKSBURY HISTORICAL SOCIETY: The Society's mission is to preserve Tewksbury's history, educate people of Tewksbury's history and help people research Tewksbury history. Open second and fourth Tues. each month, 1-5 p.m., in the local history room of ...
When Religious Groups Do What the Government Won't - The Atlantic
The Atlantic
The Atlantic
People here are deeply faithful—70 percent of adults in Arkansas say they are “highly religious,” according to the Pew Research Center—and many feel called upon by God to volunteer in their communities and to bring more people to faith. .... There's ...
Imagining the technological singularity with Factorio - Kill Screen (blog)
Kill Screen (blog)
Kill Screen (blog)
If a sophisticated AI can become a Chess Grandmaster in 72 hours and paint like Van Gogh, the question seems not a matter of “if”, but when—How long before the master accountant AI? The 10x programmer? The pulitzer journalist? If it is truly a whimper ...
Alphachat: the psychology and study of expertise; and the future for Disney - FT Alphaville (registration)
FT Alphaville (registration)
Ericsson, a professor of psychology at Florida State University, has just published a new book, Peak: Secrets from the new Science of Expertise, where he collects his findings from decades of psychology research and studies. The main thrust of the book ...
Beer & yoga; student meds stolen; oops - pot-laced brownies - Arizona Daily Star
Arizona Daily Star
Arizona Daily Star
This April 6, 2016 photo, shows the front of a fake $100 bill, in Waterloo, Iowa. Waterloo police are having a hard time cracking down on the use of fake $100 bills meant to be props for movies and music videos at local stores. Over the past few months ...
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Boardman Community Briefs - Youngstown Vindicator
Youngstown Vindicator
Take steps to help the Junvenile Diabetes Research Foundation (JDRF) progressively remove the impact of type 1 diabetes from people's lives. By joining a team or making ... Join the Boardman library for an afternoon game of chess. If you would like to ...
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AD Search Committee commissions another search committee - Hammer and Rails
Hammer and Rails
Hammer and Rails
Let's go steal Whitman from Illinois. There has to be money sitting around somewhere waiting for a good use. Let's top Illinois offer by 150,000 a year and give him some of the Purdue Research foundation land to build a house on in the country here in ...
Microsoft creates human-like chatbot - Johns Hopkins News-Letter
Johns Hopkins News-Letter
Johns Hopkins News-Letter
In a world that can now create anything, from artificial intelligence (AI) that can beat Chess and Go Masters to robots that can paint beautiful works of art, there are still a few things that hold these programs back from being realistically ...
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Is Fashion Ready for the AI Revolution? - The Business of Fashion
The Business of Fashion
The Business of Fashion
... up AI start-ups, and in the last year, milestones in the field have arrived faster than previously expected, such as last month, when Google's AlphaGo program beat a human champion at Go, a strategy board game considered more complex than chess ...
Central Oregon Volunteer Search - Bend Bulletin
Bend Bulletin
CHESS FOR SUCCESS seeks volunteers to assist in classroom chess clubs throughout the Bend and Redmond area. Chess experience is not necessary. Volunteers will help take attendance and assist the coach with lessons. Chess clubs meet twice a week ...
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Stranger than fiction - The Tablet
The Tablet
Huge claims are being made for artificial intelligence and the development of robots that can think and feel. Some say it will transform our world for good, others for ill. But it should help us appreciate what it means to be human. On 9 March AlphaGo, ...
How The Dark Horse's Cliff Curtis Went From Villains to Jesus to Chess King - L.A. Weekly
L.A. Weekly
L.A. Weekly
When you're working with a real-life figure like that — someone who wasn't necessarily all that well-known — how does that affect the kind of research and preparation that you do? How do you define authenticity in that situation? He passed away ...
What to do in Wilkes-Barre, April 7-17 - Citizens Voice
Citizens Voice
JOG FOR JUDE 5K RUN/WALK TO STOMP OUT SIDS, April 17, 7:30 a.m. Benefit for SIDS awareness and research in memory of Jude Zayac Dunmore Community Center, Dunmore. Benefits ..... CHESS CLUB, Tuesdays, 7 to 8:30 p.m. For adults. Abington ...
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HAPPENING AT TUFTS: Meet author Louisa Thomas - Wicked Local
Wicked Local
Wicked Local
Research drawn from a pool of 9.8 million US students indicates that reading patterns change dramatically after fourth grade, the average number of books read per year consistently decreasing as students approach the high school level. The decline ...
Marquette to research autism spectrum with new Autism Consortium - Marquette Wire
Marquette Wire
Marquette Wire
In October, the Autism Consortium, Marquette Chess Club and the Autism Society of Wisconsin will sponsor a chess event to raise money for ASD support programs. The event will feature National Chess Master and Wisconsin native, Richard Martin, who has ...
DC cultural and community events calendar - Washington Post
Washington Post
Learn to play chess For all ages and experience levels.Thursdays and Tuesdays at 6 .... Look at bananas, cacao and coffee ripening on the tree or learn about the next breakthrough in medical plant research. Fridays, Mondays and Wednesdays at noon and ...
REDLANDS DAILY FACTS CALENDAR - Redlands Daily Facts
Redlands Daily Facts
Chess club: Redlands Chess Club meets 2 to 5 p.m. every Friday at Redlands Community Senior Center, 111 W. Lugonia Ave. Players of all ages are welcome, from ... Anyone interested in genealogy research is welcome to attend. Information: www.yvgs.org; ...
Get Out calendar for Tuesday, April 12, 2016 - The Bozeman Daily Chronicle
The Bozeman Daily Chronicle
Zabinski will share photographs of the “photogenic” mycorrhizae she studies and discuss reasons why research about what's happening between plants, fungi and bacteria is important to Montana for agriculture, invasive species management, and remediation ...
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