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Former Facebook staffer back in Edmonton to do artificial intelligence research - Edmonton Sun
Edmonton Sun
Edmonton Sun
Former Facebook employee Kevin Waugh gave up the perks of the company's California campus last spring for an Edmonton job with the research subsidiary of another tech giant. Waugh, a Canadian who spent seven years at the University of Alberta getting ...
Former Facebook staffer back in Edmonton to do artificial intelligence research - Edmonton Journal
Edmonton Journal
Edmonton Journal
Former Facebook employee Kevin Waugh gave up the perks of the company's California campus last spring for an Edmonton job with the research subsidiary of another tech giant. Waugh, a Canadian who spent seven years at the University of Alberta getting ...
So you've learned you've got a “pitifully” low IQ. How worried should you be? - Vox
Vox
Vox
Scientific sources like Nature argue that "what most people know about intelligence must be updated,” and popular media including Vox itself reports on the "mountain of research showing that it's a genuinely powerful predictor of your health ...
Making the right moves - International Cement Review
International Cement Review
International Cement Review
The opening moves in a chess game lay the foundation for every match. Likewise, assigning cement transport orders to contract hauliers plays a crucial role in the daily race for competitiveness. Algorithms can help planners and dispatchers avoid ...
Divine Comedy with Amy Sedaris and Marcel Dzama - Cultured Magazine
Divine Comedy with Amy Sedaris and Marcel Dzama - Cultured Magazine
National Chess Day celebrated in Sarasota - Sarasota Herald-Tribune
Sarasota Herald-Tribune
Sarasota Herald-Tribune
He moved to France at age 16 and was the French National Scholastic Champion and, in the U.S., won the Jacksonville city championship in 2015. Zharkov and a group of the experienced players held an 11-player rapid chess tournament where each side ...
Inside the Off-Kilter Set that Defines At Home with Amy Sedaris - Vogue.com
Vogue.com
It's been 17 years since the beloved (and incredibly bizarre) cult comedy series Strangers with Candy left the small screen, but fans can finally rejoice: Amy Sedaris is back, and this time, she's inviting everyone into her home. But, it should be ...
Getting Personal: Rachel Schechter - Champaign/Urbana News-Gazette
Champaign/Urbana News-Gazette
Champaign/Urbana News-Gazette
Today's premiere Treasure Chess K-12 Scholastic Tournament (from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m.) at the Illini Union is the beginning, with 100 percent of net profits going to the Eastern Illinois Foodbank and Family Service of Champaign County. What was a pivotal ...
Chess tournament raises money, awareness for breast cancer - Eagle-Tribune
Eagle-Tribune
Eagle-Tribune
PELHAM — The scholastic chess tournament at Pelham Memorial School got underway Saturday morning as they have countless times in the past. Dozens of students filled the cafeteria, their excited chatter quieting as the matches started and they focused ...
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Google's AlphaGo Zero charts a startling new course in AI research - Gears Of Biz
Gears Of Biz
If you had any doubts about the potential power of artificial intelligence, well, a story just out in Nature should be a wakeup call for us humans. According to the ...
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National Chess Day celebrated in Sarasota - Sarasota Herald-Tribune
Sarasota Herald-Tribune
He moved to France at age 16 and was the French National Scholastic Champion and, in the U.S., won the Jacksonville city championship in 2015. Zharkov and a group of the experienced players held an 11-player rapid chess tournament where each side ...
A world of colour in black and white - Times of India
Times of India
In 2014, Joseph approached the government of India's department of science and technology with his observations and the results of a couple of pilot studies on the impact of chess training on children. "They liked the idea because not much research has ...
Slideshow: 13 extremely awkward Halloween costumes - KMOV.com
KMOV.com
KMOV.com
9:00 am. Jefferson Barracks Telephone Museum. Jefferson Barracks Telephone Museum. Toddler Tuesday: Movin' and Groovin'. 9:00 am. Toddler Tuesday: Movin' and Groovin'. World Chess Hall of Fame. Story Time with Baby Fun Stories and More. 9:30 am ...
Fancy Chess Set Manufacturer, The House of Staunton, Shares the Evolution of Chess - Develop
Develop
The theory on the origin of chess is debated. However, research and archeological evidence lead us to believe that chess originated in India around 600 A.D. At this time, the Gupta Empire played a similar game with pieces that would later become the ...
Calemdar - Quad City Times
Quad City Times
Epsilon Sigma Alpha sorority will sponsor this vendor and craft fair with proceeds benefiting St. Jude Children's Research Hospital. Free. Quad-City Audubon Society Field Trip: 7-11:30 a.m., Lock and Dam 14, ... The Iowa Chess Club, in partnership with ...
Yorkshire MP talks about loneliness 'crisis' - Yorkshire Post
Yorkshire Post
Immersing herself in the subject for the last ten months has been a learning curve for Ms Reeves, as the Commission's 13 partner organisations – from disability charity to Sense to the British Red Cross and Action for Children – revealed startling new ...
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Google's AlphaGo Zero charts a startling new course in AI research - Digital Trends
TNW
Digital Trends
It's much more complex and random than chess. Scientists figured it would be another 10 years before an AI computer could beat a human player. They were wrong. Now, AlphaGo Zero, which is actually an even more simplistic design than AlphaGo, just ...
Google's DeepMind achieves machine learning breakthroughs at a terrifying paceTNW
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NC Biotech Center event plants the seed for RTP high-tech tree startup - WRAL Tech Wire
WRAL Tech Wire
WRAL Tech Wire
Research Triangle Park, N.C. — An appearance at a North Carolina Biotechnology Center event in 2016 convinced the CEO of a high-tech ag biotech startup to move his company from Massachusetts to the Research Triangle. And it's been a good move, ...