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Weekend Planner: 20 Things To Do In Los Angeles - LAist

Thu, 03/24/2016 - 17:30

Weekend Planner: 20 Things To Do In Los Angeles
LAist
Proceeds from the showcase benefit Homes for Heroes, a charity that works toward housing homeless veterans; The American Society of Interior Designers Foundation to further education and research grants; and the City of Los Angeles, Department of ...

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AI 3.0: Are we closer to creating the mind of Tom Brady? - SiliconANGLE (blog)

Thu, 03/24/2016 - 16:26

SiliconANGLE (blog)

AI 3.0: Are we closer to creating the mind of Tom Brady?
SiliconANGLE (blog)
They were obsessed with building “general intelligence” and believed that all aspects of human intelligence – the ability to solve problems, to play chess, to converse in English, to make plans, and so on – were simply manifestations of a handful of ...

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Company driven to make ODOT's product list - Daily Journal of Commerce

Thu, 03/24/2016 - 15:48

Daily Journal of Commerce

Company driven to make ODOT's product list
Daily Journal of Commerce
Nine state DOTs paid into the research project. ... Dean Chess, who administers ODOT's Qualified Products List, agreed that the balance of costs is different here in Oregon because of the availability of good, cheap aggregate materials. Mirafi is ...

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Family Fun: Raising a good sport? - Sun Sentinel

Thu, 03/24/2016 - 13:41

Sun Sentinel

Family Fun: Raising a good sport?
Sun Sentinel
And research shows that the best way to ensure a good experience for all is to remind your kids to have a positive attitude. Try these ideas to ... Strategy games like checkers, chess, or Monopoly are a good way to practice sportsmanship at home. “They ...

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Lake Cd'A oxygen levels may decline - Coeur d'Alene Press

Thu, 03/24/2016 - 13:36

Lake Cd'A oxygen levels may decline
Coeur d'Alene Press
Scofield was presenting the findings of Dale Chess, the Tribe's limnologist and chief research biologist. He said the Tribe is still working on developing a model that can simulate the stratification of the lake during the summer months. When the Post ...

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AlphaGo and the Declining Advantage of Big Companies - Harvard Business Review

Thu, 03/24/2016 - 12:10

Harvard Business Review

AlphaGo and the Declining Advantage of Big Companies
Harvard Business Review
This is why most algorithms were built for a single purpose, like Deep Blue, which beat former chess grandmaster Garry Kasparov, but wasn't useful for anything else. For these first-generation machines, learning was made possible only through ... For ...

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The Upshot|An Ancient and Proven Way to Improve Memorization; Go Ahead and Try It - New York Times

Thu, 03/24/2016 - 10:25

The Upshot|An Ancient and Proven Way to Improve Memorization; Go Ahead and Try It
New York Times
Research backs this up. After people viewed thousands of images for a few seconds each, studies found that, on average, they could correctly distinguish over 80 percent of them from images they had not seen. This remained true even when the comparison ...

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Spin-off success: Huge rise in sale of blue cars in Leicester - NBCSports.com

Thu, 03/24/2016 - 10:14

NBCSports.com

Spin-off success: Huge rise in sale of blue cars in Leicester
NBCSports.com
Leicester City Football Club's surprise march towards the Premier League title is leaving car buyers in the city feeling blue, new research shows. Car manufacturer SKODA can today ..... a legacy, the way of playing football. The philosophy behind it is ...

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True value of chess-in-schools - Trinidad Guardian

Thu, 03/24/2016 - 07:30

Trinidad Guardian

True value of chess-in-schools
Trinidad Guardian
The theme of “Chess for Schools” is, of course, not a new one. In many countries valuable scientific research investigates how chess positively impacts students' cognitive development, their performance in specific subjects, mainly relating to ...

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Doubling Up Prisoners In 'Solitary' Creates Deadly Consequences - WAMU 88.5

Thu, 03/24/2016 - 06:09

Doubling Up Prisoners In 'Solitary' Creates Deadly Consequences
WAMU 88.5
Even though he was somewhat friendly toward Daczewitz (playing chess, sharing magazines, introducing him to a female pen pal), Fox said he needed to live alone. "Being housed in solitary confinement with another person, unable to escape that person's ...

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One Genius' Lonely Crusade to Teach a Computer Common Sense - WIRED

Thu, 03/24/2016 - 06:02

WIRED

One Genius' Lonely Crusade to Teach a Computer Common Sense
WIRED
Eurisko ran on dozens of machines inside Xerox PARC—the computer research lab just down the road from Stanford that gave rise to the graphical user interface, the laser printer, and so many other technologies that would come to define the future of ...

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The most momentous tech events of the past 30 years - Network World

Thu, 03/24/2016 - 05:02

Network World

The most momentous tech events of the past 30 years
Network World
In this case two Stanford students, Larry Page and Sergey Brin, launched a search engine, Google, running on Linux, as an offshoot of a research project begun in 1996. The company was incorporated in 1998 and has become a beast in the ... In a highly ...

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An Ancient and Proven Way to Improve Memory; Go Ahead and Try It - New York Times

Thu, 03/24/2016 - 02:15

New York Times

An Ancient and Proven Way to Improve Memory; Go Ahead and Try It
New York Times
Research backs this up. After people viewed thousands of images for a few seconds each, studies found that, on average, they could correctly distinguish over 80 percent of them from images they had not seen. This remained true even when the comparison ...

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The Machine Wins 4-1 : what does this mean for the future of AI? - Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies

Thu, 03/24/2016 - 02:03

The Machine Wins 4-1 : what does this mean for the future of AI?
Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies
The story, republished in several Leiber anthologies including “Day Dark, Night Bright,” describes the first grand-master-level chess tournament with an Artificial Intelligence (AI) – just called “The Machine” – among the participants. Leiber mentions ...

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Yost Column: March 24 - RhinoTimes.com Greensboro

Wed, 03/23/2016 - 21:11

Yost Column: March 24
RhinoTimes.com Greensboro
Twenty years ago, the computer Deep Blue beat the world's best chess player, Garry Kasparov, in a game of chess, and in recent years computers have beaten people in all the other games as well, including even Jeopardy. And, this week, there was a an ...

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What's in a Name? UCSB English Scholar Uncovers Family History to Find Out - Noozhawk

Wed, 03/23/2016 - 17:00

What's in a Name? UCSB English Scholar Uncovers Family History to Find Out
Noozhawk
Marshall's painstaking detective work, which began more than a decade ago, continued on and off over the years as he conducted genealogical and historical research both online and at archives, such as those of the Hebrew Orphan Asylum. “And then at ...

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What's in a Name? UCSB English Scholar Uncovers Family History to Find Out - Noozhawk

Wed, 03/23/2016 - 17:00

What's in a Name? UCSB English Scholar Uncovers Family History to Find Out
Noozhawk
Marshall's painstaking detective work, which began more than a decade ago, continued on and off over the years as he conducted genealogical and historical research both online and at archives, such as those of the Hebrew Orphan Asylum. “And then at ...

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David Hopkins: How 'Friends' triggered the downfall of Western Civilization - Dallas Morning News

Wed, 03/23/2016 - 16:46

Dallas Morning News

David Hopkins: How 'Friends' triggered the downfall of Western Civilization
Dallas Morning News
I coached our school's chess club. I saw how my students were picked on, bullied. I tried my best to defend them, but I couldn't be everywhere. My students were smart, huge nerds, and they were in hostile, unfriendly territory. Other students would be ...

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alt.legal: Can Computers Beat Humans At Law? - Above the Law

Wed, 03/23/2016 - 15:05

Above the Law

alt.legal: Can Computers Beat Humans At Law?
Above the Law
To illustrate the point, Arruda started explaining this phenomenon called centaur chess. On further research, “advanced chess” (also known as cyborg or centaur chess) is something invented by Garry Kasparov after being defeated by IBM's DeepBlue to ...

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10 tech jobs where women are paid less than men - Business Insider

Wed, 03/23/2016 - 14:17

Business Insider

10 tech jobs where women are paid less than men
Business Insider
It's true that women overall earn about 76 cents for every dollar men earn, Glassdoor's research confirmed. But there's a catch with that statistic ... It's true that women overall earn about 76 cents for every dollar men earn, Glassdoor's. Flickr ...

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