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Moving to mid-caps will rebalance your portfolio - The Australian
The Australian
After the big banks, research shows that investors prize the big resources stocks BHP Billiton and Rio Tinto in their portfolios (11 per cent), with materials and energy nearly another quarter of trades by value for SMSFs. Other key holdings include ...
What Does It Really Mean for a Country to Be European? - Slate Magazine
Slate Magazine
Slate Magazine
They spent their days sunning their ample bellies on deck, watching Russian movies, or smoking and playing cards or chess in the bar. .... He supplemented that with internet research, changing his IP address so he could see other countries' search results.
Coalinga High chess team wins fifth national title - Fresno Bee
Coalinga High School's chess team, made up of three brothers, won its fifth national title in the 18-and-younger division at the U.S. National Chess Congress on ...
The Irish model: How low should taxes go? - BBC News
BBC News
Then there are the primary colours everywhere, the games provided for staff to play, from chess to ping-pong. But what most catches your eye are the posters, exhorting staff to ... Mr Healy is director of the Nevin Institute for Economic Research, and ...
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Motivated Reasoning: A Philosopher On Confirmation Bias - MainePublic.org
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And there's a lot of research going on about that. When we have a lot at stake, we find that ... Do they really believe that these are facts and these are correct, or are they simply a political move in a political chess game? MARTIN: But the question ...
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In a casino in Pittsburgh, an AI program is beating poker champions for the first time - Colorado Springs Gazette
Colorado Springs Gazette
A "perfect" information game is one like chess, for example, where both players see the board and are in a good position to anticipate the opponent's next possible move. An "imperfect ... "Different research builds on results," he explains. None of the ...
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In a Pittsburgh casino, artificial intelligence is beating poker champions for the first time - Chicago Tribune
Chicago Tribune
Chicago Tribune
Poker is not like other games, such as chess, where AI has emerged victorious thanks to advanced algorithms. Poker is ... However, Sandholm's team did win the Annual Computer Poker Competition against other AI research teams twice in a row. "Different ...
MLK Day chess tournament top prizes, Aronian's brilliancy - AL.com
AL.com
AL.com
MLK Scholastic Chess Tournament first place winner Kapil Nathan stands with tournament director and chess organizer Caesar Lawrence, and Krish Nathan, his younger brother, who also won a prize at the event. Young chess players from all over the state ...
THE APPLE ORCHARD: Choices, chances and changes — empowering families through innovation - News Courier
News Courier
News Courier
Drama, art, chess, book and running clubs are just a few opportunities available. Field trips are offered several times ... SPARK (Scientific, Project-based, Academic Research by Kids) puts science first in the curriculum. Building on a foundation of ...
Motivated Reasoning: A Philosopher On Confirmation Bias - KUCB
KUCB
And there's a lot of research going on about that. When we have a lot at stake, we find that ... Do they really believe that these are facts and these are correct, or are they simply a political move in a political chess game? MARTIN: But the question ...
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Motivated Reasoning: A Philosopher On Confirmation Bias - KOSU
KOSU
And there's a lot of research going on about that. When we have a lot at stake, we find that ... Do they really believe that these are facts and these are correct, or are they simply a political move in a political chess game? MARTIN: But the question ...
Chess notes - The Boston Globe
The Boston Globe
The Boston Globe
Recent results: MACA's Winter Team (Scholastic) Challenge: Grades K-12 Section: 1st: Newton South “A” (Alan Sikarov, Yifan Xu, Nicholas Komarovsky, Samuel Burnham) 4-0; Medals: Alex Fauman (Newton North A), Amy Lei (Amazing Four), Kaifan Wang ...
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The charisma droids: today's robots and the artists who foresaw them - The Guardian
The Guardian
Are today's robots any closer to true agency than the Mechanical Turk, a chess-playing automaton that amazed 18th- and early 19th-century Europe? ... The smile of Mona Lisa reflects Da Vinci's research on the mechanics of 'the muscles called lips'.
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Future Intelligence: Will AI Be A Friend or Potential Enemy? - Futurism
Futurism
Futurism
AI research has exploited the increased power of computers and the access to huge amounts of data to write programs that can “learn”, “understand” and “anticipate”. This is why when you ask your phone “When did Michelangelo die?” certain brands will ...
Harbor Country Day School Third Grader's Love of Chess Leads to Accolades Success - LongIsland.com
LongIsland.com
LongIsland.com
St. James, NY - January 27, 2017 - Harbor Country Day School third grader Liam Putnam is taking on the chess world by storm. After playing the game for only one year, Liam tied for second place overall in the US Chess Federation Scholastic Grade Level ...
Apple joins Partnership on AI to explore "ethical" artificial intelligence - SlashGear
SlashGear
While initially thought of in broad terms of “super-human” machine intelligences that could beat us at chess while simultaneously solving world hunger, AI in practice has been far more niche but arguably more pervasive in the process. The technology is ...
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Spalding pupils are the checkmate kings in schools tournament - Spalding Guardian
Spalding Guardian
He said: “It's been well documented by academic research and projects that show children's abilities in numeracy and literacy are improved by playing chess.” More than 30 children belong to St John's chess club. • There's a tournament for secondary ...
15 things to do in Orange County this weekend (Jan. 27-29) - OCRegister
OCRegister
OCRegister
WINTER CHESS SCHOLASTIC: Students in Kindergarten to 12th grade can participate in this chess tournament at Chess Palace. Sections are divided by grade and skill level and awards will be given to the top 5 players. 11:30 a.m.-5:30 p.m. $30-40.
AI program takes on poker champions ... and leads - The Age
The Age
The Age
A "perfect" information game is one like chess, for example, where both players see the board and are in a good position to anticipate the opponent's next possible move. An "imperfect ... "Different research builds on results," he explains. None of the ...
Artificial Intelligence Beating World's Best Professional Poker ...Tech Times
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The Daily Trumpet and #TrumpArtworks blow up on Twitter and Instagram. - artnet News
artnet News
artnet News
Other early posts have featured work by Marcel Dzama and outspoken feminist and anti-Trump activist Marilyn Minter. “I've gotten a really tremendous, encouraging response,” said Horowitz. “A lot of really amazing artists have agreed to participate. I'm ...