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Women and beautiful chess – a response to critics - Chess News | ChessBase
Polk County calendar of kids events - The Ledger
The Ledger
Come meet Lakeland's finest members of the Police and Fire departments at the First Friday Public Safety. Includes firetrucks, police cars, SWAT and K9, Sparky and McGruff, classic car show, and more. When: 6-9 p.m. Friday. Cost: Free. Location: Munn ...
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Mead Public Library releases April schedule - The Sheboygan Press
The Sheboygan Press
The Sheboygan Press
Mead will also offer one-on-one computer help from 1-2 p.m. The first lecture in the free “History of the City of Sheboygan” series will be at 6 p.m. with presenter Beth Dippel, executive director of the Sheboygan County Historical Research Center and ...
From science to drama, take your pick - The Hindu
The Hindu
Coaching in chess will be held in two batches of 20 days each. Classes in painting will also be ... The Abhinaya Theatre Research Centre will conduct a 20-day workshop from April 1 which will end with the production of a play. It will be open for ...
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Adventist takes over Bert Fish on Friday - Daytona Beach News-Journal
Daytona Beach News-Journal
A large body of research published in the last five years warns of how melding health care of close competitors can often produce opportunities to raise the cost of services. A paper published this month by three economists from Northwestern University ...
Data serialization and datagram sizes - GameDev.net
GameDev.net
To get through my prototyping, I used JSON serialization with easy success. But I feel uneasy about JSON's ability to keep networking messages small. For example, I am developing a sports game with Unity to be a prototype for the aforementioned products.
Twitter roundup for Sunday, March 27, 2016 - Amarillo.com
Amarillo.com
Author, speaker, 13th World Chess Champion. “Castro: Women in Cuba don't make $0.78 to every dollar men make. They get a dollar for a day's work just like the men do.” @longhornderek. Derek Ryan — Republican political consultant. Former Research ...
The race is on to control artificial intelligence, and tech's future - Houston Chronicle
Houston Chronicle
Houston Chronicle
In 1997, an IBM computer beat the chess champion Garry Kasparov. Five years ago, IBM went even ... among tech's biggest companies. By 2020, the market for machine learning applications will reach $40 billion, IDC, a market research firm, estimates.
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Brainiac: Beyond the 10000-hour-rule: Experts disagree about the value of practice - The Boston Globe
The Boston Globe
The Boston Globe
They found that how much a person practices explains about 26 percent of the variation in how good people are at games like chess, 21 percent of the variation in performance playing musical instruments, and 18 percent of the variation in performance in ...
Coming up - ThisWeekNews
ThisWeekNews
Chess, 6 p.m. third Tuesdays at the Mary E. Babcock Library, 320 N. Main St., Johnstown. Free. For more information, call .... Dementia and Alzheimer's disease program, 6 p.m. April 7, Licking Memorial Hospital, 1320 W. Main St. Neurologist Even Wang ...
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Datebook: Abandoned buildings, new paintings and a show that tackles race and violence - Los Angeles Times
Los Angeles Times
Los Angeles Times
Over a period of 40 years, a single collector amassed a rich assortment of works and ephemera by the seminal French artist Marcel Duchamp -- including numerous book covers and magazines that the artist helped design even after he'd bid goodbye to art ...
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Beyond the 10000-hour-rule: Experts disagree about the value of practice - The Boston Globe
The Boston Globe
The Boston Globe
They found that how much a person practices explains about 26 percent of the variation in how good people are at games like chess, 21 percent of the variation in performance playing musical instruments, and 18 percent of the variation in performance in ...
Technology|The Race Is On to Control Artificial Intelligence, and Tech's Future - New York Times
New York Times
New York Times
For years, tech companies have used man-versus-machine competitions to show they are making progress on A.I. In 1997, an IBM computer beat the chess champion Garry Kasparov. Five years ago, IBM went even further when its Watson system won a three-day ...
An A.I. Competed for a Literary Prize, but Humans Still Did the Real Work - Slate Magazine (blog)
Slate Magazine (blog)
Slate Magazine (blog)
As Japanese publication Ashai Shimbum explains, the research team first wrote a novel of their own and then broke it down into its component parts. Only then did the A.I. involve itself, arranging the parts it had been given to create “another ... Far ...
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More Than the Next Move - Chess Builds Skills - School News Network
School News Network
Research has shown students who play chess do well at several things. They are better problem-solvers; have improved concentration and memory; higher spatial reasoning, reading and math skills; and increased logic, creativity and strategic planning.
We must teach AI machines to play nice and police themselves - Telegraph.co.uk
Telegraph.co.uk
Telegraph.co.uk
... and potential of AI - the technology that will confer a human-like intelligence on computers, through machine learning algorithms that “teach” machines different skills such as how to play chess or translate languages, using copious amounts of ...
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A Pulitzer-Prize-winning journalist explains how your brain tricks you into making bad decisions - Business Insider
Business Insider
Business Insider
So how do we prevent the need for cognitive closure from sabotaging our decisions? Duhigg said it's about building systems that force us to "make sure that we're giving a choice the time it deserves." During his research, he studied the most successful ...
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Chess legend is coming to Fulton - Fulton Sun
Fulton Sun
Garry Kasparov, the Soviet who in 1985 became the youngest world chess champion in history at the age of 22, will begin the Churchill Fellows Weekend with a free public lecture at 3 p.m. on Saturday, April 9, in the Church of St. Mary the Virgin ...
Anand beats Karjakin to come back in joint lead - The Statesman
The Statesman
In the other game of the day, Fabiano Caruana was close to winning against Topalov according to chess engines but the American did not read his chances well enough. Results round 11: V Anand (Ind, 6.5) beat Sergey Karjakin (Rus, 6); Anish Giri (Ned, 5 ...
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Talking Tech: Let it Go - The Georgetown Voice
The Georgetown Voice
The Georgetown Voice
Compare that with the 1060 possible scenarios in chess and you will understand why Go is considered one of the most complex games around. That is the reason why many experts did ... In a widely publicized open letter that was signed by the likes of ...
The Machine Wins 4-1 : what does this mean for the future of AI?Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies
Computer that beat Go champion has many applicants, says makerThe Straits Times
Artificial Intelligence: A challenge to human supremacy?Financial Express Bangladesh
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