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Community Calendar - The Marysville Advocate
The Marysville Advocate
The Volunteer Income Tax Assistance walk-in service in Marysville will be offered in the Helvering Community Center's community room on Wednesdays through April 13. Hours are 9 to 11 a.m. and 1 to 3 p.m. Call 785-629-8300 to make an appointment at ...
What's Coming April 7 to April 20 - Lewisboro Ledger
Lewisboro Ledger
The following events are from Lewisboro and Katonah as well as the surrounding region. Admission is free and programs do not require registration unless specified. Send submissions to The Ledger at editor@lewisboroledger.com or call 763-8821, ext. 127.
How a 28-year-old turned a hobby he picked up as a teenager into a business that earns over $200000 a month - Business Insider
Business Insider
Business Insider
"I was 17 or so when I first learned Brazilian Jiu Jitsu, and I really fell in love with the 'chess game' aspect of the martial art," Faggella says. When his teacher's studio closed, he used the money he'd earned from teaching private lessons and ...
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Bed Bugs Are Back, With A Vengeance - New Haven Independent
New Haven Independent
With new research, scientists are uncovering evidence that suggests two human populations overlapped living areas nearly 400,000 years ago across Europe and Asia. ... The human-bed bug relationship is like a chess game of survival. With every move we ...
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Prince George's County community calendar, April 7-13, 2016 - Washington Post
Washington Post
Chess club Learn to play or improve skills. 7 p.m. South Bowie Library, 15301 Hall Rd., Bowie. .... Maryland room open house Explore the research room to search genealogy and local history. 5:30 p.m. Hyattsville Library, 6530 Adelphi Rd., Hyattsville.
Method without Methodology: Data and the Digital Humanities - E-Flux
E-Flux
E-Flux
The researchers created their data set by selecting selfies generated by Instagram users in five cities across the globe—Bangkok, Berlin, Moscow, New York, and São Paulo—with 640 selfies from each. (A recent installation of the project this winter ...
County jail's HVAC overhaul budgeted for $1.7 million - Jacksonville Daily News
Jacksonville Daily News
Doyle said she “can't really assess the situation to say who's to blame,” but her research did not indicate the HVAC units are too small. The project anticipates $150,000 for professional services, $50,000 for professional-services financing ... The ...
Investing In Farmland: REITs, Stocks And Partnerships - Seeking Alpha
Seeking Alpha
Seeking Alpha
The way to do so would be first to research the market and look for the regions of the country and type of land that offer the best potential investment returns. Land in the Midwest tends to be fully or even overpriced, so the bargains are found ...
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MIT Can Now 3-D Print Robots Made of Both Solids and Liquids - WIRED
WIRED
WIRED
Fortunately, the research team, led by lab director Daniela Rus and postdoctoral associate Robert MacCurdy, has one. ... Eventually, Rus says, the hope is that a process like this enables robots that can do anything from measuring radon to playing chess.
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Google's AI Beat a Go Champion by Mimicking Human Intuition - DesignNews
DesignNews
By having the system watch 150,000 games of Go, then repeatedly play itself, DeepMind researchers built a valuation system that combines search-and-optimization (used by the famous Deep Blue AI) along with a neural network capable of very accurately ...
Tooting Market trader looking for right buyer for Henry Moore chess set — if they can muster £3million - South West Londoner
South West Londoner
Ernest has carried out extensive research into the chess set, but so far has not been able to confirm that it is indeed a collaboration between Moore, Armitage and Chadwick, since no signatures appear anywhere on the pieces. However, as their proud ...
Flow State: What It Is and How to Achieve It - Huffington Post
Huffington Post
Huffington Post
In his book Finding Flow, Csíkszentmihályi explains that individuals can seek out activities that meet some of the factors of flow, like playing chess, playing a logic game or puzzle like Sudoku, participating in sports, engaging in a meaningful ...
NVIDIA and the Spark of Innovation - IT Business Edge (blog)
IT Business Edge (blog)
(It should be noted that it was estimated that it would take another 100 years from the time when a computer beat a chess master before a computer could do the same with a Go champion.) This all showcases that we are at a point where computers can ...
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The Man Who Recorded, Tamed and Then Sold Nature Sounds to America - Atlas Obscura
Atlas Obscura
Atlas Obscura
He wrote and photographed for magazines like Look and Car and Driver, designed record jackets, and, after composer John Watts set up a synthesizer-based curriculum, studied electronic music at the New School for Social Research. In his spare time, he ...
MALLS OF AMERICA - New York Daily News
New York Daily News
New York Daily News
Finally, new signs go up: this will be the latest outpost of the New York K!ds Club, a chain of upscale play spaces with locations in the city's most affluent neighborhoods, where tots will be able to take classes in cooking or chess for premium prices ...
Poor Man's Sky: experiments with procedural character generation - Gamasutra (blog)
Gamasutra (blog)
Gamasutra (blog)
After generating procedural chess pieces, the obvious step to take would be full blown creatures. There's this game idea I'm playing around with which, as every side project, I may or may not be doing - I'm an expert in Schrödinger's gamedev. This one ...
The Pill that Still Hasn't Changed the Politics of Abortion - The New Yorker
The New Yorker
The New Yorker
Anti-abortion advocates at a rally outside the Supreme Court in March. Credit Photograph by Drew Angerer/Getty. When the abortion drug mifepristone first became legally available in the U.S., in 2000, it seemed to carry with it the potential for a ...
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We Have Met the Enemy and It Is Us... Not Technology - Huffington Post
Huffington Post
Huffington Post
[a]n artificial intelligent chat bot developed by Microsoft's Technology and Research and Bing teams to experiment with and conduct research on conversational understanding. Tay is designed to engage and entertain people where they connect with each ...
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North Shore Community Calendar - The Salem News
The Salem News
MARBLEHEAD: Children's Chess Club, 6 to 8 p.m., Abbot Public Library, 235 Pleasant St. Learn chess with Mikhail Perelsteyn. Beginner lessons from 6 ... Allergist Michael Young discusses new research on the development of food allergies. 781-444-7778.
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Which N.Y.C. real estate tycoons are the richest of them all? - New York Business Journal
New York Business Journal
New York Business Journal
Real estate tycoons in New York City have recovered — and then some — since the recession and housing market collapse nine years ago, with commercial developments such as Hudson Yards in Manhattan and the Domino Sugar Factory site in Williamsburg ...