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DeepMind's AlphaGo mastered chess in its spare time - SiliconANGLE News (blog)
DeepMind's AlphaGo mastered chess in its spare time
SiliconANGLE News (blog)
The DeepMind team admitted in their research paper that chess is “the most widely-studied domain in the history of artificial intelligence,” but they noted that previous chess playing AIs required “a combination of sophisticated search techniques ...
SiliconANGLE News (blog)
The DeepMind team admitted in their research paper that chess is “the most widely-studied domain in the history of artificial intelligence,” but they noted that previous chess playing AIs required “a combination of sophisticated search techniques ...
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Google's DeepMind robot becomes world-beating chess grandmaster in four hours - The Times
Google's DeepMind robot becomes world-beating chess grandmaster in four hours
The Times
“Many have become chess masters; no one has become the master of chess.” So said Siegbert Tarrasch, one of the most eminent players of the 19th and 20th centuries. In the 21st century, however, the foe appears at last to have been overcome, and what's ...
The Times
“Many have become chess masters; no one has become the master of chess.” So said Siegbert Tarrasch, one of the most eminent players of the 19th and 20th centuries. In the 21st century, however, the foe appears at last to have been overcome, and what's ...
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Australia's stock exchange is moving to a blockchain style system for trade settlements - Business Insider Australia
Business Insider Australia
Australia's stock exchange is moving to a blockchain style system for trade settlements
Business Insider Australia
Australia's equity market the ASX has decided to replace its CHESS system to record changes in shareholding with distributed ledger technology found in blockchain. The global equities exchange community has been watching the ASX as it develops and ...
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Business Insider Australia
Australia's equity market the ASX has decided to replace its CHESS system to record changes in shareholding with distributed ledger technology found in blockchain. The global equities exchange community has been watching the ASX as it develops and ...
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Game Blotter - Purple Pawn
Purple Pawn
Game Blotter
Purple Pawn
The treasurer of the Singapore Chess Federation, whose political conflicts have appeared in this column before, is suing 39 fellow members, claiming defamation in a letter they circulated seeking his ouster. The Executive Board of FIDE, in a non ...
Purple Pawn
The treasurer of the Singapore Chess Federation, whose political conflicts have appeared in this column before, is suing 39 fellow members, claiming defamation in a letter they circulated seeking his ouster. The Executive Board of FIDE, in a non ...
Categories: Scholastic Chess
India gets a step closer to laser weaponry as DRDO successfully tests laser system - Economic Times
Economic Times
India gets a step closer to laser weaponry as DRDO successfully tests laser system
Economic Times
NEW DELHI: In a leap towards building laser weapons capability, India has made a breakthrough in its efforts to develop directed energy weapons, or DEWs, that can potentially end future wars before they begin. It's not exactly what we saw in Star Wars ...
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Economic Times
NEW DELHI: In a leap towards building laser weapons capability, India has made a breakthrough in its efforts to develop directed energy weapons, or DEWs, that can potentially end future wars before they begin. It's not exactly what we saw in Star Wars ...
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India gets a step closer to laser weaponry as DRDO successfully tests laser system - Economic Times
Economic Times
India gets a step closer to laser weaponry as DRDO successfully tests laser system
Economic Times
NEW DELHI: In a leap towards building laser weapons capability, India has made a breakthrough in its efforts to develop directed energy weapons, or DEWs, that can potentially end future wars before they begin. It's not exactly what we saw in Star Wars ...
Economic Times
NEW DELHI: In a leap towards building laser weapons capability, India has made a breakthrough in its efforts to develop directed energy weapons, or DEWs, that can potentially end future wars before they begin. It's not exactly what we saw in Star Wars ...
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Alphabet's Latest AI Show Pony Has More Than One Trick - WIRED
Alphabet's Latest AI Show Pony Has More Than One Trick
WIRED
The history of artificial intelligence is a procession of one-trick ponies. Over decades researchers have crafted a series of super-specialized programs to beat humans at tougher and tougher games. They conquered tic-tac-toe, checkers, and chess. Most ...
WIRED
The history of artificial intelligence is a procession of one-trick ponies. Over decades researchers have crafted a series of super-specialized programs to beat humans at tougher and tougher games. They conquered tic-tac-toe, checkers, and chess. Most ...
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Google's 'superhuman' DeepMind AI claims chess crown - BBC News
BBC News
Google's 'superhuman' DeepMind AI claims chess crown
BBC News
Google says its AlphaGo Zero artificial intelligence program has triumphed at chess against world-leading specialist software within hours of teaching itself the game from scratch. The firm's DeepMind division says that it played 100 games against ...
DeepMind's AI became a superhuman chess player in a few hours, just for funThe Verge
Alphabet's Latest AI Show Pony Has More Than One TrickWIRED
[1712.01815] Mastering Chess and Shogi by Self-Play with a General Reinforcement Learning Algorithm - arXivarXiv
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BBC News
Google says its AlphaGo Zero artificial intelligence program has triumphed at chess against world-leading specialist software within hours of teaching itself the game from scratch. The firm's DeepMind division says that it played 100 games against ...
DeepMind's AI became a superhuman chess player in a few hours, just for funThe Verge
Alphabet's Latest AI Show Pony Has More Than One TrickWIRED
[1712.01815] Mastering Chess and Shogi by Self-Play with a General Reinforcement Learning Algorithm - arXivarXiv
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DeepMind's AI became a superhuman chess player in a few hours, just for fun - The Verge
The Verge
DeepMind's AI became a superhuman chess player in a few hours, just for fun
The Verge
The end-game for Google's AI subsidiary DeepMind was never beating people at board games. It's always been about creating something akin to a combustion engine for intelligence — a generic thinking machine that can be applied to a broad range of ...
The Verge
The end-game for Google's AI subsidiary DeepMind was never beating people at board games. It's always been about creating something akin to a combustion engine for intelligence — a generic thinking machine that can be applied to a broad range of ...
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Google's AlphaZero Destroys Stockfish In 100-Game Match - Chess.com
Google's AlphaZero Destroys Stockfish In 100-Game Match Chess.com
Chess changed forever today. And maybe the rest of the world did, too. A little more than a year after AlphaGo sensationally won against the top Go player, the ...
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Google's AlphaZero Destroys Stockfish In 100-Game Match - Chess.com
Google's AlphaZero Destroys Stockfish In 100-Game Match Chess.com
Chess changed forever today. And maybe the rest of the world did, too. A little more than a year after AlphaGo sensationally won against the top Go player, the ...
Categories: Chess Research
Crafts & Cocktails: Paper and Patterns; A Cardmaking Workshop - West End Word
Crafts & Cocktails: Paper and Patterns; A Cardmaking Workshop
West End Word
Crafts & Cocktails: Paper and Patterns: a Cardmaking Workshop will be held Wednesday, Dec. 6, 6 p.m., at the World Chess Hall of Fame, 4652 Maryland Ave. in the Central West End. Explore the exhibition Victor Vasarely: Calculated Compositions and get ...
West End Word
Crafts & Cocktails: Paper and Patterns: a Cardmaking Workshop will be held Wednesday, Dec. 6, 6 p.m., at the World Chess Hall of Fame, 4652 Maryland Ave. in the Central West End. Explore the exhibition Victor Vasarely: Calculated Compositions and get ...
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Pivot Points of Chess Supersite Corp (CHZPD) in Focus - Nelson Research
Pivot Points of Chess Supersite Corp (CHZPD) in Focus
Nelson Research
One of the technical analysis indicators used to glean the overall trend of the market over differing time periods are pivot points. The pivot point itself is where the average of the high, low and closing prices from the previous day's trading ...
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Nelson Research
One of the technical analysis indicators used to glean the overall trend of the market over differing time periods are pivot points. The pivot point itself is where the average of the high, low and closing prices from the previous day's trading ...
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Coalinga High School students again show the way at state chess championships - Fresno Bee
Fresno Bee
Coalinga High School students again show the way at state chess championships
Fresno Bee
Coalinga High School students brought home awards after placing in the Northern California Scholastic State Chess Championships at the Santa Clara Convention Center. Nine total chess players from Fresno County competed, with five from Coalinga High ...
Fresno Bee
Coalinga High School students brought home awards after placing in the Northern California Scholastic State Chess Championships at the Santa Clara Convention Center. Nine total chess players from Fresno County competed, with five from Coalinga High ...
Categories: Scholastic Chess
Agenda - Emporia Gazette
Agenda
Emporia Gazette
The Emporia Chess Society meets from 6 - 8 p.m. at Gravel City Grinders, 608 Commercial St. All ages and skill levels are welcome, including children. There is no charge. Emporia Masonic Lodge 12 meets at 7:30 p.m. at the Masonic Temple, 424 Merchant ...
Google News Emporia Gazette
The Emporia Chess Society meets from 6 - 8 p.m. at Gravel City Grinders, 608 Commercial St. All ages and skill levels are welcome, including children. There is no charge. Emporia Masonic Lodge 12 meets at 7:30 p.m. at the Masonic Temple, 424 Merchant ...
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Reed Magazine - Reed Magazine (press release) (blog)
Reed Magazine (press release) (blog)
Reed Magazine
Reed Magazine (press release) (blog)
Suzy Renn [biology 2006–], as well as a psycholinguistics paper by Prof. Enriqueta Canseco-Gonzales [psychology 1992–] and Prof. Michael Pitts [psychology 2001–]analyzing word recognition in Spanish-English bilinguals. His thesis students have applied ...
Reed Magazine (press release) (blog)
Suzy Renn [biology 2006–], as well as a psycholinguistics paper by Prof. Enriqueta Canseco-Gonzales [psychology 1992–] and Prof. Michael Pitts [psychology 2001–]analyzing word recognition in Spanish-English bilinguals. His thesis students have applied ...
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Students win big at Scholastic Chess tourney - Crossville Chronicle
Crossville Chronicle
Students win big at Scholastic Chess tourney
Crossville Chronicle
On Nov. 18, 31 scholastic players from Cumberland County met to compete for the county chess scholastic championships. The champions were Jonathan Bailey, high school; Robert Brown, junior high; Logan Cross, elementary; and Lyric Authier, primary. The ...
Crossville Chronicle
On Nov. 18, 31 scholastic players from Cumberland County met to compete for the county chess scholastic championships. The champions were Jonathan Bailey, high school; Robert Brown, junior high; Logan Cross, elementary; and Lyric Authier, primary. The ...
Categories: Scholastic Chess
Superchunk to Play First South Florida Show in 20 Years at NADA Miami - Miami New Times
Miami New Times
Superchunk to Play First South Florida Show in 20 Years at NADA Miami
Miami New Times
Superchunk will play in support of Merge Records' booth at the fair, which will present selections of 25 commissioned record sleeves from artists like Kim Gordon (yes, the Kim Gordon of Sonic Youth), Mira Dancy, Marcel Dzama, Eddie Martinez, and others ...
Miami New Times
Superchunk will play in support of Merge Records' booth at the fair, which will present selections of 25 commissioned record sleeves from artists like Kim Gordon (yes, the Kim Gordon of Sonic Youth), Mira Dancy, Marcel Dzama, Eddie Martinez, and others ...
Hip hop, chess make great combination - WCVB Boston
WCVB Boston
Hip hop, chess make great combination
WCVB Boston
High-intensity exercise can help boost memory, according to research from McMaster University in Ontario, Canada. Advertisement. Just six weeks of physical activity - "short bouts of interval training over the course of 20 minutes" - drastically ...
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WCVB Boston
High-intensity exercise can help boost memory, according to research from McMaster University in Ontario, Canada. Advertisement. Just six weeks of physical activity - "short bouts of interval training over the course of 20 minutes" - drastically ...
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