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Can you guess your state's most-searched signature cookie? - Today.com

Mon, 12/14/2015 - 07:10

Today.com

Can you guess your state's most-searched signature cookie?
Today.com
To be clear, these aren't the single top-searched cookies in every state: "The most popular cookies in every state are chocolate chip, peanut butter, sugar cookies, et cetera, which is not very interesting," explains Gregory Druck, head of research at ...

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Apple Has BIG Plans For 2016's iPhone 7: Specs, Hardware & Features DETAILED - Know Your Mobile

Mon, 12/14/2015 - 06:36

Apple Has BIG Plans For 2016's iPhone 7: Specs, Hardware & Features DETAILED
Know Your Mobile
Every year we see all the major players attempt to outmanoeuvre each other in a big chess game, except in this case it's who can introduce an innovative new feature nobody knew they needed first - or alternatively, who can introduce it in the most ...

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These 7 Professions Breed Good Poker Players - Poker Update - Online Poker News

Mon, 12/14/2015 - 01:02

Poker Update - Online Poker News

These 7 Professions Breed Good Poker Players
Poker Update - Online Poker News
They often diagnose and treat mental processes, and some conduct research and offer applications for their studies. The ability to assess human behavior is a vitally important quality in a successful poker player. In live poker, players have ...

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Martin Shkreli, the bad boy of pharma, makes no apologies - The Seattle Times

Sun, 12/13/2015 - 22:00

The Seattle Times

Martin Shkreli, the bad boy of pharma, makes no apologies
The Seattle Times
Martin Shkreli, the founder and chief executive of Turing Pharmaceuticals, in New York earlier this month. The former hedge-fund manager provoked an outcry by raising by raising the price of a drug overnight to $750 a pill from $13.50. (RICHARD ...

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OpenAI Seeks To Ensure Artificial Intelligence Benefits Mankind - iTech Post

Sun, 12/13/2015 - 19:48

iTech Post

OpenAI Seeks To Ensure Artificial Intelligence Benefits Mankind
iTech Post
The humanoid robot AILA (artificial intelligence lightweight android) operates a switchboard during a demonstration by the German research centre for artificial intelligence at the CeBit computer fair in Hanover March, 5, 2013. The biggest fair of its ...
Elon Musk, Peter Thiel and others are committing $1 billion to OpenAI to ...Next Big Future
Non-profit research company, OpenAI, backed by Elon Musk, Sam AltmanTV Newsroom

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Calhoun Cardiology Center, University of Connecticut School of Medicine ... - Dove Medical Press

Sun, 12/13/2015 - 16:44

Calhoun Cardiology Center, University of Connecticut School of Medicine ...
Dove Medical Press
We searched two research databases for peer-reviewed journal articles published in English that evaluated smartphone apps to decrease alcohol consumption or treat AUD. We identified six apps. Two of these apps (A-CHESS and LBMI-A) promoted ...

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ROGERS - Here's hoping AI is our friend - News Kamloops (blog)

Sun, 12/13/2015 - 06:04

News Kamloops (blog)

ROGERS - Here's hoping AI is our friend
News Kamloops (blog)
THERE'S A LOT more to artificial intelligence than the impossible-to-beat chess game on your computer. Digital assistants on your smartphone (think Siri, Google Now and Cortana) can figure out how to fulfil many of your wishes, but they are just the start.

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Sex, love and robots — is this the end of intimacy? - Raw Story

Sun, 12/13/2015 - 05:35

Raw Story

Sex, love and robots — is this the end of intimacy?
Raw Story
David Levy is a British international master of chess. With his white hair and a sharp eyebrow, he has the look of a cynical Einstein. It was chess that led Levy to computing, consulting in the late 1970s on the development of a chess module for home ...

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Sex, love and robots — is this the end of intimacy? - Raw Story

Sun, 12/13/2015 - 05:35

Raw Story

Sex, love and robots — is this the end of intimacy?
Raw Story
David Levy is a British international master of chess. With his white hair and a sharp eyebrow, he has the look of a cynical Einstein. It was chess that led Levy to computing, consulting in the late 1970s on the development of a chess module for home ...

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Sex, love and robots: is this the end of intimacy? - The Guardian

Sun, 12/13/2015 - 03:55

The Guardian

Sex, love and robots: is this the end of intimacy?
The Guardian
David Levy is a British international master of chess. With his white hair and a sharp eyebrow, he has the look of a cynical Einstein. It was chess that led Levy to computing, consulting in the late 1970s on the development of a chess module for home ...

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Elon Musk, Peter Thiel and others are committing $1 billion to OpenAI to ... - Next Big Future

Sun, 12/13/2015 - 02:04

International Business Times

Elon Musk, Peter Thiel and others are committing $1 billion to OpenAI to ...
Next Big Future
In the early days, people thought that solving certain tasks (such as chess) would lead us to discover human-level intelligence algorithms. However, the solution to each task turned out to be much less general than people were ... The group's other ...
Non-profit research company, OpenAI, backed by Elon Musk, Sam AltmanTV Newsroom

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Reel Boston - The Boston Globe

Sat, 12/12/2015 - 20:36

Reel Boston
The Boston Globe
REMEMBERED FOR: Multi-image technique swiped by director Norman Jewison from Expo '67, Michel Legrand's groovy theme song, “The Windmills of Your Mind,” chess used as a game of seduction. WHERE IT WAS SHOT: Everywhere. The Walter Mirisch ...

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Researchers create a computer program that learns the way humans do - Napa Valley Register

Sat, 12/12/2015 - 17:59

Researchers create a computer program that learns the way humans do
Napa Valley Register
... a central fact of Artificial Intelligence (A.I.) research for decades. If you cram enough data into a machine, and let the algorithms grind away tirelessly, the computer can detect a pattern, produce a desired outcome and perhaps beat a grandmaster ...

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Page & Panel brings comic book culture to the Toronto Reference Library - Toronto Star

Sat, 12/12/2015 - 12:08

Toronto Star

Page & Panel brings comic book culture to the Toronto Reference Library
Toronto Star
It's easy to see why it stuck around — after all, where else in the city could a shopper snag a Jane Eyre mug, a Walking Dead foam-dart crossbow, a chess set inspired by Neil Gaiman's The Sandman, Gilbert Hernandez's Marble Season in hardcover or a ...

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Will Trump's Muslim comments boost Christie's chances? - NJ.com

Sat, 12/12/2015 - 08:01

NJ.com

Will Trump's Muslim comments boost Christie's chances?
NJ.com
David Paleologos, the director of polling at the Suffolk University Political Research Center in Boston notes that as of mid-November, Trump supporters gave Christie some of the highest favorability ratings of any GOP candidate running for president ...

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Why Cultural Capital is a Great Gift - International Policy Digest

Sat, 12/12/2015 - 06:26

International Policy Digest

Why Cultural Capital is a Great Gift
International Policy Digest
In a research article, Dr. Thomas Abel says that “it is concluded that cultural capital is a key element in the behavioral transformation of social inequality into health inequality.” That is ... So, this holiday season, in addition to purchasing ...

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Library hosts International Games Day - Corpus Christi Caller-Times

Sat, 12/12/2015 - 03:06

Corpus Christi Caller-Times

Library hosts International Games Day
Corpus Christi Caller-Times
Current and prospective computer science students and the general public ahd the opportunity to see what projects the University's Innovation in Computing Research Labs (iCORE) students and other computer science students have been working on. They ...

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The science of learning: five classic studies - The Guardian

Sat, 12/12/2015 - 03:01

The Guardian

The science of learning: five classic studies
The Guardian
A classic study defines where research will go next – whether to confirm, disprove or qualify the original finding – and helps us to reorganise our learning to be more effective. .... His studies of how chess experts think began the modern study of ...

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Careers Nova Scotia Profile: Librarians - TheChronicleHerald.ca

Fri, 12/11/2015 - 22:04

TheChronicleHerald.ca

Careers Nova Scotia Profile: Librarians
TheChronicleHerald.ca
But while she likes all aspects of her busy job in a public library, the best part for her is meeting new people and helping them, whether it's to find a good book to read, get started on genealogical research, or find a program. “When I first started ...

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Elon Musk, Peter Thiel, Reid Hoffman and others commit $1B to stop AI from ... - GeekWire

Fri, 12/11/2015 - 17:36

GeekWire

Elon Musk, Peter Thiel, Reid Hoffman and others commit $1B to stop AI from ...
GeekWire
OpenAI is a non-profit foundation tasked with expanding research and practical application of AI tech. As the introductory blog post notes, AI has been used to solve some very specific problem, like how to win a chess match, but those advancements ...

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