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Clinton Campaign Chief John Podesta's Interst In UFOs is Out of This World - NBCNews.com

Chess Research - Mon, 10/31/2016 - 13:12

NBCNews.com

Clinton Campaign Chief John Podesta's Interst In UFOs is Out of This World
NBCNews.com
When hackers broke into Hillary Clinton's campaign chairman John Podesta's private email account, little did they know they were entering the Twilight Zone. There, amid the grist and gossip about the inner workings of the campaign — and some ...

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Women can be disqualified from chess tournaments for showing clevage - Metro

Chess Research - Mon, 10/31/2016 - 10:57

Metro

Women can be disqualified from chess tournaments for showing clevage
Metro
'It's nice to see chess players with short skirts — they are very pretty girls… But I believe there should still be some limit.' So yeah, a woman who wins a chess match can have her win overturned because she's got cleavage showing. But short skirts ...

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Donald Trump doesn't really give away money, and when he does, he benefits from it - Salon

Chess Research - Mon, 10/31/2016 - 09:00

Salon

Donald Trump doesn't really give away money, and when he does, he benefits from it
Salon
Or, the time that Trump was principal for a day at a Bronx public school that was $5,000 shy of a fund-raising goal to send some students to a chess tournament. Trump brough a fake million-dollar bill, gave them $200 in real life, and drove away in a ...

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ERIC's new logo pays homage to Vikings, London - Pensions & Investments

Chess Research - Sun, 10/30/2016 - 23:10

Pensions & Investments

ERIC's new logo pays homage to Vikings, London
Pensions & Investments
A logo with a Viking wearing a bowler hat that was designed for an online platform for financial research has won a silver award in a design competition in New York. Independent designer Oliver Haas was tasked with designing the first logo for ...

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Google researchers build networks that invent their own encryption - Christian Science Monitor

Chess Research - Sun, 10/30/2016 - 16:00

Christian Science Monitor

Google researchers build networks that invent their own encryption
Christian Science Monitor
By teaching two neural networks, nicknamed "Alice" and "Bob," to communicate with each other while keeping the contents of their messages secret from an adversarial third network, "Eve," the researchers effectively demonstrated that artificial ...
Google's AI just created its own form of encryptionZME Science
Google's neural networks invent their own encryptionNew Scientist
[1610.06918] Learning to Protect Communications with Adversarial Neural Cryptography - arXiv.orgarXiv.org

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A life of accomplishment: Judge Leighton turns 104 - SouthCoastToday.com

Chess Research - Sat, 10/29/2016 - 16:25

A life of accomplishment: Judge Leighton turns 104
SouthCoastToday.com
Leighton had a humble background as a boy raised by Cape Verdean immigrants from the island of Brava, growing up as an avid chess player in New Bedford and in the Cape Cod area, where he worked as a youngster on a cranberry bog. His last name was ...

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Has AI (Finally) Reached a Tipping Point? - Wall Street Journal (blog)

Chess Research - Fri, 10/28/2016 - 11:11

Wall Street Journal (blog)

Has AI (Finally) Reached a Tipping Point?
Wall Street Journal (blog)
After many years of promise and hype, AI seems to be finally reaching a tipping point of market acceptance. AI is now being applied to activities that not long ago were viewed as the exclusive domain of humans.“We're now accustomed to having ...

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Congress moves the chess pieces - Politico

Chess Research - Fri, 10/28/2016 - 09:02

Politico

Congress moves the chess pieces
Politico
ACOs EXPRESSING FRUSTRATION WITH IT: Accountable Care Organizations need IT to address population health, but aren't necessarily getting the IT tools they need, a report from Premier Research Institute supported by Robert Wood Johnson ...

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Rise & Shine: Are low-income families benefitting from city's special ed policy shift? - Chalkbeat New York

Chess Research - Fri, 10/28/2016 - 06:57

Rise & Shine: Are low-income families benefitting from city's special ed policy shift?
Chalkbeat New York
CHESS CLUB The Police Athletic League is offering students chess as part of its after-school program, fulfilling a vision of late Brooklyn District Attorney Kenneth Thompson. NY1. LIFE ON MARS Bronx students got to check out a new virtual reality ...

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Chess Federation teaches kids to 'think a couple moves ahead' - Milwaukee Neighborhood News Service

Scholastic Chess News Feed - Fri, 10/28/2016 - 06:14

Milwaukee Neighborhood News Service

Chess Federation teaches kids to 'think a couple moves ahead'
Milwaukee Neighborhood News Service
Jayden, 10, spent the entire day playing chess at the Wisconsin Scholastic Chess Federation tournament at Siloah Lutheran School, 3721 N. 21st St., along with five of his classmates from Escuela Vieau and 65 other students from chess clubs in the ...

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Chess Federation teaches kids to 'think a couple moves ahead' - Milwaukee Neighborhood News Service

Scholastic Chess News Feed - Fri, 10/28/2016 - 02:00
Chess Federation teaches kids to 'think a couple moves ahead'  Milwaukee Neighborhood News Service

The Wisconsin Scholastic Chess Federation provides opportunities for children to learn chess and compete in tournaments.

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The Rookie by Stephen Moss review – an enjoyable celebration of chess - The Guardian

St. Louis AND Chess News Feed - Thu, 10/27/2016 - 09:00

The Guardian

The Rookie by Stephen Moss review – an enjoyable celebration of chess
The Guardian
In St Louis, Missouri, at least, the game has been re-energised by the money of the billionaire chess fanatic Rex Sinquefield. And the reader is relieved, above all, for Moss's own slow and hard-won progress as a player. He's an amusing, self ...

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Baseball Players See the Ball As Way Bigger Than You Do - New York Magazine

Chess Research - Thu, 10/27/2016 - 07:24

New York Magazine

Baseball Players See the Ball As Way Bigger Than You Do
New York Magazine
For a 2005 paper, research psychologists Jessica Witt and Dennis Proffitt set up a table beside a softball game in Charlottesville, Virginia, the home of their school, the University of Virginia. For a free sports drink, ballplayers — 47 in all ...

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AI and robots aren't gunning for your job, White House economist says - InfoWorld

Chess Research - Thu, 10/27/2016 - 06:16

InfoWorld

AI and robots aren't gunning for your job, White House economist says
InfoWorld
... more government projects like the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency self-driving vehicle challenge, he said. The U.S. also needs a more highly educated workforce to drive AI forward, Furman added. "Computers can beat humans at Go, chess, ...

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What Happens When 15 Artists Reimagine the Campaign Poster - W Magazine

Marcel Dzama, Jon Crumiller - Thu, 10/27/2016 - 02:00
What Happens When 15 Artists Reimagine the Campaign Poster  W Magazine

In this charged election season, we should all show that we give a damn. In a special project for W's 10th anniversary Art Issue, 15 artists throw down the ...

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