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White people just don't get it: Bernie Sanders, Ta-Nehisi Coates and the reality of reparations - Salon
Salon
Salon
Both Coates and Sanders remind us, in their own ways, that if American politics is a version of chess, then African-Americans are the pawns … and the pawn is the most powerful piece on the board. Unfortunately, because African-Americans are a pawn in ...
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The Chico code - Chico News & Review
Chico News & Review
He studied a wide range of topics that come into play in his current research—history, geography, architecture, art—at Virginia's Old Dominion University and eventually worked for several years as a field archaeologist. Since 2007, he's been ...
Selling Feminism One Box at a Time: The serious business of Girl Scout cookies - Austin Chronicle
Austin Chronicle
As a reified symbol of American-ness – one that generates hundreds of millions of dollars in sales every year – Girl Scout cookies are often, as Graue says, "used as symbolic chess pieces in games of personal politics." Among the most immediate ...
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DC community calendar, Jan. 21-28, 2016 - Washington Post
Washington Post
“Sculpting the Human Figure: The Female Form in Ancient Greek Sculpture” and “The Male Form in Ancient Greek Sculpture” Documentary films by Panos Pappas. 10:30 a.m. National Gallery of Art, West Building, Lecture Hall, Sixth Street and Constitution ...
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Education Briefs - Salisbury Post
Salisbury Post
Salisbury Post
In addition, students can participate in Book Club, Chess Club, Children's Choir, Geography Bee, History Bee, Spelling Bee, Bible Bowl, Science Fair, Master Gardener Program, Lego Robotics, Baking Club, Dolphin TV, Literary Magazine, Beta Club, Student ...
Grounding AI: Artificial Intelligence is Closer -- and Less Awesome -- than Most Realize - Government Technology
Government Technology
Government Technology
The millions of buildings that were treated with lead paint before it was outlawed in the U.S. in 1978 make prevention an onerous task, said Rayid Ghani, research director at the University of Chicago's Computation Institute and director at the Center ...
Wild West Novels Have Suddenly Gotten A Whole New Exciting Lease on Life - Gizmodo
Gizmodo
Gizmodo
In Gemma Files' Hexslinger series, a Pinkerton agent named Ed Morrow infiltrates a gang of outlaws that's led by a rogue “hexslinger” named Asher Rook and his lover, Chess Pargeter. The Hexslinger books have won lots of praise for their protrayal of ...
Investors now exploring 3D printing and scanning startups - Economic Times
Economic Times
Apoorv Ranjan, founder of Venture Catalysts, a seed investment platform, along with investor Samir Somaiya, president of Somaiya Group, plan to invest in Chess Automate, a chess board game whose 3D-printed hardware system will be used for creating a ...
Community calendar - The Marysville Advocate
The Marysville Advocate
Chess Club, adults and youngsters, 4:30 to 7:30 p.m. on Thursdays, Astro 3 Theatre, Marysville. Family story time ... “Ride Into History” historical research workshop, free, sponsored by the Marshall County Railroad Historical Society, from 9 a.m. to 6 ...
Fintech: Search for a super-algo - Financial Times
Financial Times
Financial Times
Advances in AI research have triggered immense interest in the industry, where some believe a thinking, learning and trading computer will make even today's superfast, ultra-complex investment algorithms look archaic — and possibly render human fund ...
Practical Applications Of Risk Parity Optimality – Gerstein Fisher - ValueWalk
ValueWalk
ValueWalk
A risk-parity portfolio will beat actively or passively managed portfolios more than 50% of the time, according to this research. The authors explain how a risk-parity asset allocation strategy—which ignores expected returns and correlations—actually ...
OK Computer: How computers will—and won't—change the NFL - Sports Illustrated
Sports Illustrated
In 1996, IBM's Deep Blue became the first supercomputer to defeat a chess grandmaster, Garry Kasparov, in a game. A year later Deep ... The two AI research areas with the most potential relevance for football are machine learning and game theory ...
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OK Computer: How computers will—and won't—change the NFL - Sports Illustrated
Sports Illustrated
In 1996, IBM's Deep Blue became the first supercomputer to defeat a chess grandmaster, Garry Kasparov, in a game. A year later Deep ... The two AI research areas with the most potential relevance for football are machine learning and game theory ...
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OK Computer: How computers will—and won't—change the NFL - Sports Illustrated
Sports Illustrated
The number of possible scenarios on a field far outnumber the options on a chess board: Players aren't confined to squares, and the pawns along the line of scrimmage or the rooks split wide come in a variety of sizes. The fact that calls must be made ...
Depression in expectant father linked to premature birth - Free Press Journal
Free Press Journal
Free Press Journal
Now, researchers from the Centre for Health Equity Studies in Stockholm (CHESS) have conducted a study on more than 350,000 births in Sweden between 2007 and 2012. They were investigated for parental depression and incidences of either very preterm ...
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Cancer Evolution Follows Natural Laws, Study Suggests - Tech Times
Tech Times
Tech Times
The laws of nature that govern the luminosity of stars or the flow of the Nile River are the same forces behind the mutation of tumors, a new study in London revealed. Experts believe this could someday help predict how cancers grow and develop in ...
Athens area events for Wednesday, Jan. 20 - Online Athens
Online Athens
Northeast Georgia Aging Services Advisory Council: 1 to 2 p.m., 305 Research Drive.(706) 369-5650 or email pjenkins@negrc.org ... Chess Club: 5 to 6 p.m., Oconee County Library, 1080 Experiment Station Road, Watkinsville. All experience levels welcome.
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An Entangled Evening of Quantum Science - Pasadena Now
Pasadena Now
The Quantum Summit will bring together technology leaders and scientists from several multinational companies and other organizations to consider what the summit's organizers call “our mind-bending quantum future” and the implications of this research ...
BKT aiming to be 'go-to' value-segment OTR tire supplier - Tire Business
Tire Business
The company invited dozens of key customers and journalists from around the world to an event it called the “Game Changer,” where the Poddars likened their strategy to a chess game to illustrate the complexities of crafting a comprehensive business ...
Cancer Evolution Deemed Explicable Chain of Cause and Effect - Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News (blog)
The Independent
Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News (blog)
Scientists at the Institute of Cancer Research and Queen Mary University of London (QMUL) have developed a model that assumes that in many tumors, all important cancer genes are already present at the beginning of tumor growth, and that new mutations ...
Cancer evolution: how the laws of nature could predict tumor growthMedical News Today
Laws of nature predict cancer evolutionEurekAlert (press release)
New study finds laws of nature predict cancer evolutionDrug Target Review
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