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Why humanity's Rorke's Drift falling to computer Zulus matters - FT Alphaville (registration)
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FT Alphaville (registration)
Go, an ancient Chinese board game and pretty much the last one to resist the onslaught of computers that have already thrashed us at chess, Super Mario and Jeopardy, has finally succumbed. Google's artificial intelligence outfit DeepMind has developed ...
NAB delays Clydesdale float by a day after ratings inquiry - Sydney Morning Herald
Sydney Morning Herald
Sydney Morning Herald
Australian investors were expecting to start trading CHESS depository interests (CDIs) in Clydesdale on Wednesday on the ASX. However, in an announcement to the ASX ... Matthew Davison, a senior research analyst at Martin Currie Australia, said before ...
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Mixed-Reality Firm Taps Fresh Funds - Nasdaq
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They were joined by J.P. Morgan Chase & Co., Fidelity Management and Research Co., Morgan Stanley, Wellington Management Co., funds advised by T. Rowe Price Associates Inc. and Time Warner Inc. unit Warner Bros. Magic Leap has yet to publicly show the ...
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New Exhibit at World Chess Hall of Fame Features Female Trailblazers - STLtoday.com
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As part of Her Turn, the CCSCSL will also host an installation of photographs, score sheets and other artifacts related to the 2009-2015 U.S. Women's Chess Championships, curated by research assistant Catherine Niehaus. Her Turn: Revolutionary Women ...
8 Ways Billionaires and Elite Athletes Perform at the Highest Level - Observer
Observer
Observer
While analyzing the computer's strategy, players have been shocked and amused by the computer's use of certain “ugly” moves — which no trained chess player would ever do — that utterly clash with conventional wisdom. Rather than finesse and ...
A computer just beat a human one of the most complex games out there - Washington Post
Washington Post
Washington Post
But go, a strategy game popular in such places as China, South Korea and Japan, is vastly more complicated than chess. “Go is considered to be the pinnacle of game AI research,” said artificial intelligence researcher Demis Hassabis of Google DeepMind, ...
Google's AI Masters the Game of Go a Decade Earlier Than ExpectedMIT Technology Review
In a first for ancient game, Google AI conquers humansArkansas Online
All systems Go! But what is it like to play against a computer?Cosmos
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1 Sharing the River: Dealing with Boat Traffic on a Mississippi Source-to-Sea - CANOE & KAYAK
CANOE & KAYAK
CANOE & KAYAK
During our planning research we'd come across other expeditions that had taken radios and reported good yields. Some folks made casual suggestions to take a radio, but said it was possible without one. On the contrary, we found that our radio became ...
Google's AI Masters the Game of Go a Decade Earlier Than Expected - MIT Technology Review
MIT Technology Review
MIT Technology Review
Go is far more challenging for computers than, say, chess for two reasons: the number of potential moves each turn is far higher, and there is no simple way to measure material advantage. A player must therefore learn to recognize abstract patterns in ...
In a first for ancient game, Google AI conquers humansArkansas Online
All systems Go! But what is it like to play against a computer?Cosmos
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NYC pilot program aims to foster greater school diversity - Brooklyn Daily Eagle
Brooklyn Daily Eagle
Brooklyn Daily Eagle
"Your child is going to be in a classroom with children who are different from them," Soto told parents during a tour this month, in between fielding questions about the school's fencing program and its chess club. That's not always the case. The city ...
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Goldman Sachs Wavefront Economic Analysis Hunts For Economic Shocks - ValueWalk
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ValueWalk
Goldman Sachs economics researchers have engaged in an ambitious project to apply “Wavefront” macro economic analysis onto fundamental economic performance drivers and then reveal trading and investing ideas for what is an oddly shaped market ...
Weekly planner for area sporting events, entertainment and more - The News Herald
The News Herald
Instructor Jackie Papke presents “My Genealogy Experience” about genealogy research and the interesting and unexpected facts she learned about her ancestors. Details: 522-2100 or NWRLS.com. AFRICAN-AMERICAN LITERATURE READ IN: 3:30-5 p.m. and 6:30-7:30 ...
NYC pilot program aims to foster greater school diversity - Education Week (subscription)
Education Week (subscription)
"Your child is going to be in a classroom with children who are different from them," Soto told parents during a tour this month, in between fielding questions about the school's fencing program and its chess club. That's not always the case. The city ...
The Emergence of Deep and Machine Learning - Desktop Engineering
Desktop Engineering
Imagine a host of products that can incorporate such applications as superb and accurate language translation from multiple platforms, forecast weather with pinpoint accuracy and learn chess within 72 hours — and play at the Master level. Such ...
Iran nuclear agreement satisfactory not ideal: Salehi - Press TV
Press TV
Press TV
In other words, to remove the inefficient centrifuges the IR1 and to replace them with efficient centrifuges or the advanced centrifuges such as IR8 about Arak, the Arak Research Reactor, as I in my first interview with you if you remember if you ...
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Notebook: Arbanas' artisty is shooting the 3-ball for YSU - Sharonherald
Sharonherald
Sharonherald
According to women's basketball sports information director John Vogel's research, the Penguins have produced 6 wins when trailing by as many as 8 points in a game, 3 times from 15-point deficits. In the season-opener against Canisius Youngstown yanked ...
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Lord Carloway's vision for redesigning the Scottish courtroom - Law Society of Scotland (press release) (blog)
Law Society of Scotland (press release) (blog)
These may occasionally be expressions of my own personal utopia, but generally they are conclusions based upon considered, albeit inevitably incomplete, research by others. Many of the central changes require primary legislation. Their introduction ...
In a first for ancient game, Google AI conquers humans - Arkansas Online
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Arkansas Online
Google DeepMind, the London research group behind the project, is now getting the software ready for a competition in Seoul against the world's best Go player in March. The event harks back to the highly publicized chess match in 1996 when IBM's Deep ...
All systems Go! But what is it like to play against a computer?Cosmos
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Pluto holds more water ice than we thought - Cosmos
Cosmos
Cosmos
Recently released data from NASA's New Horizons spacecraft suggest there is much more water ice on Pluto's surface than previously thought. Scans of infrared light taken at 15-minute intervals by the craft's Ralph/Linear Etalon Imaging Spectral Array ...
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Smith: Thinking ahead in health care - Vermont Biz
Vermont Biz
UVM Health Network's recent growth is primarily in New York. And UVM Medical Center does need to be large enough to be a well respected and sought after academic, research and acute care facility. But you can't chalk it all up to size, some of it ...
NFL Notes: Report: Johnson told coach he will retire - Duluth News Tribune
Duluth News Tribune
Duluth News Tribune
The Lions hired Randy Edsall, who was fired as head coach at Maryland during the 2015 season, as the team's director of football research and special projects. Around the NFL. The NFL sent a memo to all 32 teams that said the league has no rule against ...
NFL notebook: Johnson told coach he will retireWPTZ The Champlain Valley
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