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Vanessa Sun on the Greater NY Scholastics - uschess.org
Don't fret, Gen. Lee has 'National Chess Day' - Arkansas Online
Arkansas Online
Arkansas Online
According to the official National Day Calendar, Oct. 13 is already "National Train Your Brain Day," "National Yorkshire Pudding Day," "National Chess Day," "National Costume Swap Day" and "National Motorcycle Ride Day." It's also "National No Bra Day ...
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Let's make a deal: Could AI compromise better than humans? - Science Daily
Science Daily
For the study, researchers programmed machines with an algorithm called S# and ran them through a variety of two-player games to see how well they would cooperate in certain relationships. The team tested machine-machine, human-machine and human-human ...
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Let's make a deal: Could AI compromise better than humans? - Tech Xplore
Tech Xplore
Tech Xplore
For the study, researchers programmed machines with an algorithm called S# and ran them through a variety of two-player games to see how well they would cooperate in certain relationships. The team tested machine-machine, human-machine and human-human ...
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Let's make a deal: Could AI compromise better than humans? - EurekAlert (press release)
EurekAlert (press release)
EurekAlert (press release)
Computers can play a pretty mean round of chess and keep up with the best of their human counterparts in other zero-sum games. But teaching them to cooperate and compromise instead of compete? With help from a new algorithm created by BYU computer ...
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National Hobby Month @ YOUR Rowan County Public Library - Morehead News
Morehead News
A hobby, according to my Webster's New World Dictionary, is something that one likes to do or study in one's spare time. January is National Hobby Month, a great time to become involved in a new pastime. Why? Being involved in a hobby is a great stress ...
Nakamura Visits South African Chess Events - Chess.com
Chess.com
Chess.com
South Africa doesn't show up on these news pages often, but a flurry of events took place this month in Johannesburg. Local chess officials wanted to put their country more on the world chess map, and pulled out all the stops to do just that. More than ...
Greenwich Academy to host chess championship - Westport News
Westport News
Stanwich School took the team prize for 4th grade at last year's Greenwich City Scholastic Chess. Photo: Contributed. Image 1of/1. Caption. Close. Image 1 of 1. Stanwich School took the team prize for 4th grade at last year's Greenwich City Scholastic ...
Greenwich Academy to host chess championship - Greenwich Time
Greenwich Time
Greenwich Time
Stanwich School took the team prize for 4th grade at last year's Greenwich City Scholastic Chess. Photo: Contributed. Image 1of/1. Caption. Close. Image 1 of 1. Stanwich School took the team prize for 4th grade at last year's Greenwich City Scholastic ...
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Greenwich Academy to host chess championship - Greenwich Time
Greenwich Time
Greenwich Time
GREENWICH — Greenwich Academy will host the 2018 Greenwich City Scholastic Chess Championship on January 21 for students in kindergarten through high school. The event is organized by the National Scholastic Chess Foundation and is part of its 2017-18 ...
Burden Of “Poof!” - The Free Weekly
The Free Weekly
I hear this weird, unearthly growling in the basement,” and their friend would say, “Yeah, whatever” and keep playing chess, and the monster would cry itself to sleep off camera. Interestingly, there are some lessons for dealing with potential romantic ...
AI Beat Humans at Reading! Maybe Not - WIRED
WIRED
WIRED
It was calculated in a way that favors machines over humans. A Microsoft researcher involved in the project says “people are still much better than machines” at understanding the nuances of language. The milestone that wasn't demonstrates the ...
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On Chess: The role of chess in the creation of the op art movement - KBIA
KBIA
KBIA
A perplexus chess set and board created by Victor Vaserly is on display at the World Chess Hall of Fame. Michael DeFilippo. When Victor Vasarely, the father of op art, first began to experiment with optical illusions, he needed a canvas on which to put ...
New AI System Predicts How Long Patients Will Live With Startling Accuracy - Gizmodo
Gizmodo
Gizmodo
There, events can attain a momentum of their own, resulting in increasingly aggressive interventions that often do not serve patients and their families well,” Ken Jung, a Standford Medicine research scientist and co-author of the new study, told ...
On Chess: The role of chess in the creation of the op art movement - KRCU
KRCU
KRCU
A perplexus chess set and board created by Victor Vaserly is on display at the World Chess Hall of Fame. Michael DeFilippo. When Victor Vasarely, the father of op art, first began to experiment with optical illusions, he needed a canvas on which to put ...
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On Chess: The role of chess in the creation of the op art movement - St. Louis Public Radio
St. Louis Public Radio
St. Louis Public Radio
He also invented the plastic alphabet by combining the square, the circle and the triangle in various colors. By assigning one shape and color to each letter of the alphabet you can write your name and at the same time create a work of art. Next time ...
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Greenwich Academy to host chess championship - Greenwich Time
On Chess: The role of chess in the creation of the op art movement - St. Louis Public Radio
On Chess: The role of chess in the creation of the op art movement - St. Louis Public Radio
When Victor Vasarely, the father of op art, first began to experiment with optical illusions, he needed a canvas on which to put down his thoughts. That.