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Why practice doesn't make perfect: Rote learning has limited uses in the world ... - City A.M.
City A.M.
City A.M.
Performing meta-analysis of 88 studies of deliberate practice across fields including music, sport, education and games like Scrabble and chess, the study found that practice accounted for 12 per cent of individual differences in performance overall ...
Ground Floor Gallery Presents “Give And Take” By Visual Artist Ian Trask - Park Slope Stoop (blog)
Park Slope Stoop (blog)
Park Slope Stoop (blog)
Hungry Chess Set, 2012 by Ian Trask. Stainless ... Ever since I worked as a hospital groundskeeper in Massachusetts years ago while transitioning from a career in science research to art, I've taken a bit of a “freegan” approach to sourcing my art ...
Will AI become a threat to future white-collar workers? - The Japan Times
The Japan Times
The Japan Times
To answer this question, the Tokyo-based National Institute of Informatics (NII), Japan's only general academic research institute for informatics, launched a 10-year project in 2011. Collaborating with various companies and institutions, the project ...
Obama calls for more icebreakers despite lack of funds - Washington Times
Washington Times
Washington Times
Mr. Obama, in a game of polar ice chess with Russian President Vladimir Putin and his 40-plus icebreakers, made the gap one of his themes as he toured Alaska last week. Officials say the U.S. needs to keep pace in the face of an ... The current budget ...
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Obama calls for more icebreakers despite lack of funds - Washington Times
Washington Times
Mr. Obama, in a game of polar ice chess with Russian President Vladimir Putin and his 40-plus icebreakers, made the gap one of his themes as he toured Alaska last week. Officials say the U.S. needs to keep pace in the face of an ... The current budget ...
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Films from life - Jewish Journal
Jewish Journal
Jewish Journal
Trank said that, in conducting his research, he was surprised to learn how much Begin and Rabin respected each other and found ways to work together despite their glaring differences. “Yitzhak Rabin was the prototypical Sabra, the Israeli-born Jew ...
Films from life - Jewish Journal
Jewish Journal
Jewish Journal
Trank said that, in conducting his research, he was surprised to learn how much Begin and Rabin respected each other and found ways to work together despite their glaring differences. “Yitzhak Rabin was the prototypical Sabra, the Israeli-born Jew ...
Why Facebook's $2 Billion Bet on Oculus Rift Might One Day Connect Everyone on ... - Vanity Fair
Vanity Fair
Vanity Fair
Then he added, helpfully, “There's a lot of interesting research into that, where people have some band on their head…. You can look into it if you're interested.” It sounded a little bit insane, but Zuckerberg wasn't joking. “There are ..... we're ...
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Why Tech Giants Are Not Pursuing “Intelligent” AI – interview with Dr. Robert ... - Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies
Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies
The first boat navigates by attempting to pre-program the thousands (if not an exponential amount more) of possible scenarios and related actions that a machine might encounter when playing a game of chess. The second boat treads a very different path ...
Finding Artificial Intelligence Through Storytelling — An Interview with Dr ...Lifeboat Foundation (blog)
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Does brain training really work? - UC Berkeley
UC Berkeley
Swartzberg, who serves as chairman of the editorial board of the UC Berkeley Wellness Letter and berkeleywellness.com, analyzes all the latest research and comes up with the consensus advice for people worried about losing their mental acuity with age ...
20 Non-Awkward Ways to Meet People While Traveling Solo - Huffington Post
Huffington Post
Research a potential homestay beforehand to make sure that it includes people around your own age, who share some of your interests, and who will actually hang out with you. (In other words, make sure it's not the elderly couple who's just renting a ...
New tool can nondestructively characterize structural materials in ... - Phys.Org
Phys.Org
Phys.Org
The next step for the team will be partnering with researchers at the Cornell High Energy Synchronous Source (CHESS), Cornell University and the Advanced Photon Source (APS) at Argonne National Laboratory to develop standalone RAMS load frames.
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Double Bonus: Texas Pan-American is now the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley - Mid-Major Madness
Mid-Major Madness
In doing my research....WHAT!?!? Hold on! The WAC has a new member? UTRGV? Who is this mysterious UTRGV, where did they come from, and why do they have the longest acronym in college sports? Another question arose, WHAT HAPPENED TO TEXAS PAN AMERICAN ...
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Finding Artificial Intelligence Through Storytelling — An Interview with Dr ... - Lifeboat Foundation (blog)
Lifeboat Foundation (blog)
Take a “simple” AI concept, such as how to create a computer that plays chess, to better understand the challenge. There are, more or less, two approaches to creating an intelligent machine that can play chess like a ... The famous Turing test, run ...
Sep 8, 2015 in Featured: E-sports athletes spend hours training, researching games - Boise State University The Arbiter Online
Boise State University The Arbiter Online
... and gattling guns, one e-sports player agreed with the ideology surrounding Wagner's new definition for sports. Senior business major Daniel May found that his own involvement with competitive “League of Legends” play has required much more ...
Seminars on Book Collecting – The New Season - ILAB
ILAB
I spent an afternoon with her recently on some research – trying to tease out from census returns, newspaper advertisements and rate-books, some tiny morsels of further flesh to put on the bones of Wilde's errant publisher – Leonard Smithers and the ...
The Wily Political Strategy of Pope Francis - New York Magazine
New York Magazine
New York Magazine
To launch the encyclical, he recruited a top global-warming expert, professor Hans Joachim Schellnhuber of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, who once described the U.S. population as “climate illiterate.” He also invited the activist ...
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CPS students back to school Tuesday - WLS-TV
WLS-TV
WLS-TV
"They can't continue to use our kids as pawns in their political chess game. They just can't," said Kelly Hutchinson. Hutchison's daughter, Katelyn, heads back to Walter Payton College Prep Tuesday morning. On top of an hour-long commute each way and ...
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Stanford, Toyota launch artificial-intelligence research center - The Almanac Online
The Almanac Online
The Almanac Online
The new collaboration builds on decades of leading-edge AI research conducted at Stanford, according to the university press release. In the 1960s, the Stanford Artificial Intelligence Lab, built some of the first chess-playing computers, and by the ...
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Check Out The Hottest Celeb Pics This Week - OK Magazine
OK Magazine
After a blowout performance at TAO Nightclub Friday night, Busta Rhymes kept the party going at TAO Beach on Saturday. The hip hop artist, who was joined by family and friends, jumped into the DJ booth and took a celebratory shot with Eric Dlux before ...
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