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Artificial intelligence: Can Watson save IBM? - Financial Times
Financial Times
Financial Times
The AI highlights reel includes the “expert systems” of the 1980s and Deep Blue, IBM's world champion-defeating chess computer of the 1990s, as well as more recent feats like the Google system that taught itself what cats look like by watching YouTube ...
Russia and China are drastically scaling up their presence in Antarctica - Business Insider
Business Insider
Business Insider
Although Beijing did not establish its first Antarctic research base until 1985, Chinese efforts to expand its influence across the continent have intensified and are now outpacing other nations' plans. As this map from 2013 shows, at the time China ...
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Sunburn for January 5 – The future of the free world is at stake today - SaintPetersBlog (blog)
SaintPetersBlog (blog)
SaintPetersBlog (blog)
With the drawing of a number, the Florida Senate either has a clear line of succession through 2022 or it has another season of chess-boarding. Like the ..... TOP FLORIDA-BASED POLLING FIRM MERGES via Adam Smith of the Tampa Bay Times – EMC Research ...
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Winning lottery ticket auctioned; hero cat; female farmers - Arizona Daily Star
Arizona Daily Star
Arizona Daily Star
In 2014, Tennessee became the first and so far the only state to pass a law criminalizing drug use during pregnancy, according to a December 2015 report from the Guttmacher Institute, a research center that supports abortion rights. Alabama and South ...
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Should We Teach Kids To Monetize Their Passions? - Fast Company
Fast Company
Fast Company
As Vivek Nasta, a father of two and the cofounder and CEO of the investment research app Scout Finance, told me, "Like any parent, I want my children to be happy. And for me, that means they grow up knowing they can do what they love on ... he is going ...
GreenBiz 101: Get smarter on artificial intelligence - GreenBiz
GreenBiz
GreenBiz
Just ask Tesla CEO Elon Musk, who is so concerned about the ethical implications of the technology that he recently co-founded a $1 billion-backed, non-profit organization called OpenAI dedicated to responsible AI research and development. Musk and his ...
Santa Barbara-Based Gas Pods Company Aims to Save Drivers Money, Carbon Emissions - Noozhawk
Noozhawk
Noozhawk
Research finds GasPods work best on blunt-back vehicles like hatchbacks or mini vans, Chess said, creating a low-pressure area behind a vehicle. “If you make a vehicle more aerodynamic, it will save fuel,” she said. Seeing desirable results, GasPods ...
How to Help Your Religion Win in 2016 - Huffington Post
Huffington Post
Huffington Post
It also reminds me of a cool chess set I saw in the Grand Bazaar in Istanbul which pitted Byzantine crusaders against Ottoman Turks. The Turkish shopkeeper tried to lure me into a purchase: "Come, let's play...you can be the Christians!" ... Recent ...
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REDLANDS DAILY FACTS CALENDAR - Redlands Daily Facts
Redlands Daily Facts
Chess club: Redlands Chess Club meets 2 to 5 p.m. every Friday at Redlands Community Senior Center, 111 W. Lugonia Ave. Players of all ages are welcome, from ... Anyone interested in genealogy research is welcome to attend. Information: www.yvgs.org; ...
Brand Study Links Clinton To Stella, Trump To Red Bull And Bush To Sears. Now ... - Forbes
Forbes
Forbes
I know political surveys abound, but here's one that is a bit more thought-provoking than the usual suspects, and offers up responses that are actually more candid than most. It's the recent Presidential Branding Study that, full disclosure, I ...
After winning at chess, this computer may decide loans - Economic Times
Bloomberg
Economic Times
After defeating an expert in Japanese chess, this computer programme's next task is to figure out if you can make the payments on a new mortgage. Heroz, a small Japanese startup whose engineers designed computer systems that were the first to defeat an ...
After Winning at Chess, This Computer May Help Decide LoansBloomberg
After winning at Japanese chess, this computer may help decide loansThe Japan Times
After defeating an expert in Japanese chess, this computer program's next task ...New Zealand Herald
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New Laramie County Library - Wyoming Tribune
Wyoming Tribune
Wyoming Tribune
GREGORY HOENIG/WTEChelsea Hacker and her brother Alex Hacker play chess on an oversized board in the childrens section. 20070827library09gh ... GREGORY HOENIG/WTELibrary employees do research in the geneology room. 20070827library11gh.
Fauquier County community events - Washington Post
Washington Post
Genealogical research help Fauquier Heritage and Preservation Trust volunteers help visitors. Mondays 9 a.m.-1 p.m., Tuesdays ... Chess Club Mondays 6:30-8:30 p.m. Warrenton Library, 11 Winchester St. Chessboards appreciated. 540-422-8500. Free.
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Business Person of the Year 2016 - Connect Business Magazine
Connect Business Magazine
Connect Business Magazine
I was also president of Student Council, involved in the yearbook committee and part of the chess club. As my father .... It was a great first job because I worked with everyone: research, development, marketing, sales, product management. Everybody ...
Everything You Need To Know About The Illinois Daily Fantasy Sports Legal Battle - Legal Sports Report
Legal Sports Report
Legal Sports Report
Insisting that fantasy sports contests “are precisely the types of contests that the drafters of Section 28-1 sought to exempt from the criminal prohibition on illegal gambling,” FanDuel and Head2Head favorably compared their offerings to “chess ...
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The Best Long Plate Appearances of 2015 - Hardball Times
Hardball Times
Hardball Times
According to research done by Paul Swydan, 15-pitch plate appearances occurred in 0.001 percent of all MLB plate appearances between 1988 and 2013. Of the 4.7 million plate appearances over that stretch, only 68 were exactly 15 pitches long ... After ...
After Winning at Chess, This Computer May Help Decide Loans - Bloomberg
Bloomberg
Bloomberg
Heroz Inc., a small Japanese startup whose engineers designed computer systems that were the first to defeat an active professional player of shogi, the Japanese version of chess, says it's now working on adapting its applications for the financial ...
After winning at Japanese chess, this computer may help decide loansThe Japan Times
From Japanese chess to working out if you'll default on your mortgage repaymentsNew Zealand Herald
From winning at chess, Heroz computer moving into financial applicationsMalay Mail Online
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Be selective on technology use in school - The Straits Times
The Straits Times
The Straits Times
The research, however, did not cover the impact of technology usage at home on children - and I would be curious to find out how big a part that plays in their academic performance, especially in a society where many children have access to computers ...
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The Survival of Humanity. Economic Warfare against the World - Center for Research on Globalization
Center for Research on Globalization
Center for Research on Globalization
Shortly before Christmas I wrote the following letter to Mr. Sergej Glaziev, one of Russia's top economists and economic advisor to President Putin. Sergej is also a member of the Greek Delphi Initiative. As Professor Michel Chossudovsky so aptly ...
The Oath Keeper Who Wants to Arm Black Lives Matter - RollingStone.com
RollingStone.com
RollingStone.com
He is a practicing Baptist who doesn't drink but plays the rock guitar, a prodigious hunter who is versed in physics, game theory, gear mechanics and can handle himself at chess. Moreover, at a moment when his state has been wracked not only by the ...