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Valley Girls: Meet the Ladies of Switzerland's Engadine Valley - W Magazine

Marcel Dzama, Jon Crumiller - Tue, 01/02/2018 - 07:02

W Magazine

Valley Girls: Meet the Ladies of Switzerland's Engadine Valley
W Magazine
Soon they may be able to venture downstairs to Flohr's personal suite, with its Gio Ponti desk, curly bison rugs, and works by Abdoulaye Konaté, Marcel Dzama, and Candida Höfer—or, if they are really well behaved, into the indoor pool or private ...

10 Things You Can Do Right Now to Make Your Brain Sharper - Big Think (blog)

Chess Research - Mon, 01/01/2018 - 10:09

Big Think (blog)

10 Things You Can Do Right Now to Make Your Brain Sharper
Big Think (blog)
A Canadian study showed that people who spoke two languages processed information more economically, using up less brain circuitry. Plus, being multilingual will likely make you more open to other cultures, making travel more fun. 6. Play chess ...

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What can Qualcomm do to fend off Broadcom? - Los Angeles Times

Chess Research - Mon, 01/01/2018 - 06:01

Los Angeles Times

What can Qualcomm do to fend off Broadcom?
Los Angeles Times
The two tech giants are supposedly wary of Apple's influence over the deal and worried about Broadcom's reputation for cutting costs rather than investing in new technologies, which could interfere with Qualcomm's 5G research. In a research note ...

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Artificial Intelligence's "Holy Grail" Victory - Montana Standard

Chess Research - Sun, 12/31/2017 - 13:25

Montana Standard

Artificial Intelligence's "Holy Grail" Victory
Montana Standard
As researchers began to ask computers to solve complex, real-world problems like diagnosing diseases or translating Russian, it turned out that many of these complex problems could only be solved in theory but not in practice. The time and memory ...

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Artificial Intelligence's "Holy Grail" Victory - Motley Fool

Chess Research - Sun, 12/31/2017 - 12:23

Artificial Intelligence's "Holy Grail" Victory
Motley Fool
To understand why such a simple game has confounded AI research for decades, it's helpful to contrast Go with chess. For decades, it was said that computers would be intelligent if only they could play chess. Then, half a century after Alan Turing ...

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Why Are Trump's Troops Training ISIS Terrorists? - Center for Research on Globalization

Chess Research - Sun, 12/31/2017 - 08:18

Center for Research on Globalization

Why Are Trump's Troops Training ISIS Terrorists?
Center for Research on Globalization
The new national survey by the Pew Research Center, conducted Dec. 11-14 among 1,001 adults, finds that amid competing claims over the effectiveness of CIA interrogation methods, 56% believe they provided intelligence that helped prevent terrorist ...

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Chess Grandmaster Garry Kasparov Shares Thoughts on AI Developments - Christian Post

Chess Research - Sun, 12/31/2017 - 05:04

Christian Post

Chess Grandmaster Garry Kasparov Shares Thoughts on AI Developments
Christian Post
Google's AlphaGo, often cited as the foremost example of groundbreaking research into AI, has beaten World Number One Go Player Ke Jie in his own game earlier this May. Ke Jie, who was confident before the match that AlphaGo has no chance to defeat him ...

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'I instructed you so,' chess legend Garry Kasparov says on Russian interference within the US election - Kaplan Herald

Chess Research - Sat, 12/30/2017 - 00:38

'I instructed you so,' chess legend Garry Kasparov says on Russian interference within the US election
Kaplan Herald
Then they extended this practice to Russian speaking neighborhoods in the former Soviet Union. Then they tried it in Europe. Eventually they successfully tried it in the United States.” that about 80,000 posts backed by Russia got onto the social ...

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Space science work recognised in New Year Honours - BBC News

Chess Research - Fri, 12/29/2017 - 16:34

BBC News

Space science work recognised in New Year Honours
BBC News
Another to receive a CBE is Dr Demis Hassabis, the co-founder and chief executive officer of DeepMind, a world leading company in artificial intelligence research. The firm's computer programme defeated a human Go player in 2016, in what was seen as a ...

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World Chess Hall of Fame - STL.News

World Chess Hall of Fame - Fri, 12/29/2017 - 02:56
World Chess Hall of Fame  STL.News

The World Chess Hall of Fame is located in St. Louis, Missouri and is aimed at exploring the relationship between art and chess. To do so, the World Chess Hall ...

2017 Data: Pew Research Shows People Fear Robots Taking Jobs - Breitbart News

Chess Research - Thu, 12/28/2017 - 17:38

Breitbart News

2017 Data: Pew Research Shows People Fear Robots Taking Jobs
Breitbart News
Neural-networked artificial intelligences are already dominating games of immense complexity like Chess and the ancient Chinese game of Go. Their next challenge is the exponential increase in action complexity of a live game like Blizzard's Starcraft ...

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JHSC Chess Team Brings Home National Competition Trophy - Jewish Link of Bronx, Westchester and Connecticut

Scholastic Chess News Feed - Thu, 12/28/2017 - 11:46

Jewish Link of Bronx, Westchester and Connecticut

JHSC Chess Team Brings Home National Competition Trophy
Jewish Link of Bronx, Westchester and Connecticut
This past weekend, The Jewish High School of Connecticut (JHSC) chess team competed at the United States Chess Federation 2017 National Scholastic K-12 Championships in Lake Buena Vista, Florida. The team, made up of freshmen Gavriel Genger, Leo ...

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It Was a Big Year for AI - Slate Magazine (blog)

Chess Research - Thu, 12/28/2017 - 08:15

Slate Magazine (blog)

It Was a Big Year for AI
Slate Magazine (blog)
“Agents will drift off understandable language and invent codewords for themselves,” said Dhruv Batra, visiting research scientist from Georgia Tech at Facebook A.I. Research, in an interview with FastCo Design. While this got a lot of blowback in the ...

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Vanity and some old habits - Manila Bulletin

Chess Research - Thu, 12/28/2017 - 08:01

Vanity and some old habits
Manila Bulletin
Eye Associates Research lab report: Based on their clinical findings, EAR released their newest product, Nuviante Eyelash Enhancer. EAR claims that its clinically tested formula contains enzymes, peptides, anti-oxidants and vitamins essential for lash ...

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Gravitational waves, gene editing and other top science stories of 2017 - The Hindu

Chess Research - Wed, 12/27/2017 - 08:28

The Hindu

Gravitational waves, gene editing and other top science stories of 2017
The Hindu
In January, Libratus, an artificial intelligence computer created by researchers at Carnegie Mellon University defeated four top class poker players. In March, “AlphaGo”, Google-run artificial intelligence (AI), defeated legendary Go player Lee Se-dol ...

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Crescent City Schools Notes for December 27, 2017 - The Advocate

Scholastic Chess News Feed - Wed, 12/27/2017 - 07:07

The Advocate

Crescent City Schools Notes for December 27, 2017
The Advocate
EINSTEIN CHARTER HIGH SCHOOL: Students from Einstein Charter High School in New Orleans placed in top spots at the 2017 Louisiana Scholastic Chess League Holiday Scholastic Chess Tournament hosted by Cajun Chess at Tulane University on Dec. 2. Jimmy ...

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Best of 2017: 20 inspiring stories that had a positive impact this year - The Indian Express

Scholastic Chess News Feed - Wed, 12/27/2017 - 06:09

The Indian Express

Best of 2017: 20 inspiring stories that had a positive impact this year
The Indian Express
Coach's letter after 12-yr-old chess champ was kicked out for 'seductive' dress. malaysia, chess, chess champion kicked out for dress, teen chess player kicked out. Her coach said the incident has left the little champion sad and disturbed. (Source ...

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When Spock Met PLATO - WIRED

Chess Research - Wed, 12/27/2017 - 06:00

WIRED

When Spock Met PLATO
WIRED
And now here he was in the Construction Engineering Research Laboratory at the University of Illinois. The voice was the same. It was him. But it wasn't. Those tiny ears! Nimoy and his entourage made their way down the first-floor hallway, past ...

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