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Make 2017 your year of success: FSU professor's research reveals the path to peak performance - Florida State News
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Florida State News
Ericsson has spent more than 30 years researching the science of elite performance among athletes, chess players, musicians, novelists, doctors, and the list goes on. All that research has led him to the fascinating conclusion that everyone has what it ...
Are women 'really smart'? Young girls don't tend to think so, new study shows - Kansas City Star
Kansas City Star
Kansas City Star
Girls as young as 6 years old are less likely than boys to label people of their own gender as "really, really smart," according to new research that raises questions about how stereotypical notions of male and female mental abilities shape the paths ...
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January 25, 2017 - Visual Artist Melody Owen Makes Waves - The Corvallis Advocate
The Corvallis Advocate
The Corvallis Advocate
Along with many of her friends, Owen has been influenced by artists such as Sophie Calle, Ann Hamilton, Kiki Smith, David Lynch, Jim Jarmusch, Terry Gilliam, Diane Arbus, Tom Waits, Reggie Watts, Marcel Dzama, and Jon Rafman. Owen's work ranges in ...
AI program takes on poker champions ... and leads - Canberra Times - The Canberra Times
The Canberra Times
The Canberra Times
Libratus is facing off against four world-champion poker players in a US casino, and after 67000 hands it is winning.
Artificial Intelligence Beating World's Best Professional Poker ...Tech Times
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AI program takes on poker champions ... and leads - The Age - The Age
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The Age
Libratus is facing off against four world-champion poker players in a US casino, and after 67000 hands it is winning.
Artificial Intelligence Beating World's Best Professional Poker ...Tech Times
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AI program takes on poker champions ... and leads - The Sydney Morning Herald
The Sydney Morning Herald
The Sydney Morning Herald
Poker is not like other games, such as chess, where AI has emerged victorious thanks to advanced algorithms. But for the ... However, Sandholm's team did win the Annual Computer Poker Competition against other AI research teams twice in a row ...
Artificial Intelligence Beating World's Best Professional Poker PlayersTech Times
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Tata Steel Chess Tournament kicks off the year with some of the best - St. Louis Public Radio
St. Louis Public Radio
St. Louis Public Radio
Wesley So is the current lead of the Tata Steel Chess Tournament, pictured here at last year's London Chess Classic. Saint Louis Chess Club and Spectrum Studios. Every year the first and longest elite tournament starts in January: Tata Steel! The ...
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Tata Steel Chess Tournament kicks off the year with some of the best - St. Louis Public Radio
St. Louis Public Radio
St. Louis Public Radio
It is interesting to compare the similarities of the World Chess Championship match and the match between Rapport and Wei Yi, as both matches were decided in a faster time control. The Tata Steel super tournament started with a surprise. The initial ...
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'Culture and Climate Change' series continues - Gannonknight
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Gannon University's College of Humanities, Education and Social Sciences (CHESS) is keeping with its yearlong theme of academic lectures and happenings centering on issues in culture and climate change with a myriad of events taking place during the ...
I can code you the world - Capilano Courier
Capilano Courier
It turns out that the same technology used to beat humans at chess and Go is used for tons of other things, such as recognizing songs with Shazam, driverless cars and cancer research. We're living in an era where the links between virtually every field ...
An AI program is beating poker champions for the first time - Stuff.co.nz
Stuff.co.nz
Stuff.co.nz
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 ...
An AI Poker Player Is Beating Four of the World's Best Pros by $800000Futurism
Artificial Intelligence Is About to Conquer Poker, But Not Without Human HelpWIRED
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AI program no match for poker champs - The News Herald
The News Herald
The News Herald
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 ...
An AI Poker Player Is Beating Four of the World's Best Pros by $800000Futurism
Artificial Intelligence Is About to Conquer Poker—But Not Without ...WIRED
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3 Westchester students named Regeneron finalists - The Journal News | LoHud.com
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The Journal News | LoHud.com
Of the more than 1,700 applicants, 20 local students out of 300 across the country were chosen as semifinalists earlier this month for projects that included analysis of water contamination, wind turbines, human languages and games of chess. Each ...
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If Fake News Fools You, It Can Fool Robots, Too - Bloomberg
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Bloomberg
They excel in tiny, toy universes where the rules of the game are precisely understood and consistent -- games such as chess or go, for example. They can even handle trivia, as the success of IBM's Watson in playing Jeopardy has demonstrated. Watson's ...
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In a casino in Pittsburgh, an AI program is beating poker champions for the first time - Reading Eagle
Washington Post
Reading Eagle
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 Is About to Conquer Poker, But Not Without Human HelpWIRED
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In a casino in Pittsburgh, an AI program is beating poker champions ... - Washington Post
Washington Post
Washington Post
Poker, with its hidden hands and bluffing, is much harder for AI than, say chess, where players have a lot of information because the board is visible.
Artificial Intelligence Is About to Conquer Poker—But Not Without ...WIRED
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Richards-Porter Happy Earning From Chess - Jamaica Gleaner
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Jamaica Gleaner
"You can make a decent living from chess, because I graduated from the University of the West Indies (UWI). I was doing research, and I stopped it to come and teach chess," she outlined. Like most things, however, the flag-bearer says it depends on who ...
Why it's time to wake up to ResMed Inc.'s (CHESS) potential - Motley Fool Australia
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Motley Fool Australia
Despite the strong revenue growth the net profit for the quarter was generally flat due to rising administrative and research expenses, with adjusted gross margins of 58.3% marginally down on the prior quarter's adjusted gross margins of 58.9%. Overall ...
ResMed Inc. Announces Results for the Second Quarter of Fiscal Year 2017Yahoo Finance
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Chess Club drawing students of all ages - hngnews.com
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hngnews.com
“One of our missions is to promote chess in the state of Wisconsin, including scholastic chess,” he said. It only made sense for him to promote chess in his own town, Rasmussen said. “I'm a big football and basketball fan of the high school, and I'd ...
Why Poker Is a Big Deal for Artificial Intelligence - MIT Technology Review
MIT Technology Review
MIT Technology Review
It is fundamentally different from checkers, chess, or Go, because an opponent's hand remains hidden from view during play. In games of “imperfect information,” it is ... Game theory has already been applied to research on jamming attacks and ...
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