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On Chess: Jeffery Xiong, World Junior Champion, shows the bright future of U.S. chess - St. Louis Public Radio
On Chess: Jeffery Xiong, World Junior Champion, shows the bright future of U.S. chess St. Louis Public Radio
I've had the pleasure of knowing Jeffery Xiong since he started taking his first pawns. Jeffery is the current rock star of the junior chess world, having.
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On Chess: Jeffery Xiong, World Junior Champion, shows the bright future of U.S. chess - St. Louis Public Radio
On Chess: Jeffery Xiong, World Junior Champion, shows the bright future of U.S. chess St. Louis Public Radio
I've had the pleasure of knowing Jeffery Xiong since he started taking his first pawns. Jeffery is the current rock star of the junior chess world, having.
Categories: Saint Louis Chess Club
China Races to Tap Artificial Intelligence -- WSJ - Nasdaq
China Races to Tap Artificial Intelligence -- WSJ
Nasdaq
Google made a splash in that area earlier this year when its AlphaGo AI machine beat a South Korean grandmaster at the chess-like game of Go. But Chinese AI experts are winning international accolades, too. ... Didi, which raised $7.3 billion in its ...
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Nasdaq
Google made a splash in that area earlier this year when its AlphaGo AI machine beat a South Korean grandmaster at the chess-like game of Go. But Chinese AI experts are winning international accolades, too. ... Didi, which raised $7.3 billion in its ...
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DC community calendar, Aug. 25-Sept. 1 2016 - Washington Post
DC community calendar, Aug. 25-Sept. 1 2016
Washington Post
Chess for kids Weekly instruction for children who want to learn how to play the game or play with better strategy in tournaments. Chess instructor teaches how to think, plan next moves ... Learn to play chess For all ages; learn to play the game ...
Washington Post
Chess for kids Weekly instruction for children who want to learn how to play the game or play with better strategy in tournaments. Chess instructor teaches how to think, plan next moves ... Learn to play chess For all ages; learn to play the game ...
Categories: Scholastic Chess
DC community calendar, Aug. 25-Sept. 1 2016 - Washington Post
DC community calendar, Aug. 25-Sept. 1 2016
Washington Post
Chess for kids Weekly instruction for children who want to learn how to play the game or play with better strategy in tournaments. Chess .... See bananas, cacao and coffee ripening on the tree or learn about the next big breakthrough in medical plant ...
Washington Post
Chess for kids Weekly instruction for children who want to learn how to play the game or play with better strategy in tournaments. Chess .... See bananas, cacao and coffee ripening on the tree or learn about the next big breakthrough in medical plant ...
Categories: Chess Research
Prince George's County community calendar, Aug. 25-31, 2016 - Washington Post
Prince George's County community calendar, Aug. 25-31, 2016
Washington Post
Chess/checkers club Learn to play or improve skills. at 1 p.m. Hyattsville Library, 6530 Adelphi Rd., Hyattsville. 301-985-4690. ... 1-3 p.m. Patuxent Research Refuge, North Tract, Route 198 between the Baltimore-Washington Parkway and Route 32, Laurel.
Washington Post
Chess/checkers club Learn to play or improve skills. at 1 p.m. Hyattsville Library, 6530 Adelphi Rd., Hyattsville. 301-985-4690. ... 1-3 p.m. Patuxent Research Refuge, North Tract, Route 198 between the Baltimore-Washington Parkway and Route 32, Laurel.
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Why Milwaukee's Online Newspaper Archive Vanished Overnight - Slate Magazine (blog)
Slate Magazine (blog)
Why Milwaukee's Online Newspaper Archive Vanished Overnight
Slate Magazine (blog)
... of course, at the research libraries of the University of Wisconsin and the Milwaukee Public Library. But moving from a searchable, digitized archive to microfilm with a partial card catalog index, wrote one local researcher, was like going from ...
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Slate Magazine (blog)
... of course, at the research libraries of the University of Wisconsin and the Milwaukee Public Library. But moving from a searchable, digitized archive to microfilm with a partial card catalog index, wrote one local researcher, was like going from ...
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The Jesus Singularity - Motherboard
The Jesus Singularity
Motherboard
The AI project he'd dedicated the last 25 years to—from beating humans in chess to conquering the Turing Test to teaching AI how to love—was finally about to reach fruition. He was on the verge of creating an intelligence as smart as any adult human ...
Motherboard
The AI project he'd dedicated the last 25 years to—from beating humans in chess to conquering the Turing Test to teaching AI how to love—was finally about to reach fruition. He was on the verge of creating an intelligence as smart as any adult human ...
Categories: Chess Research
Why St. Louis Is America's Most Overlooked City to Visit Right Now - Thrillist
Thrillist
Why St. Louis Is America's Most Overlooked City to Visit Right Now
Thrillist
Today it's probably the hottest food neighborhood in the city, with restaurants like Scape -- the creation of Gerard Craft protégé Shimon Diamond -- and Bar Italia sitting a block from the World Chess Hall of Fame. It's another 15 minutes from the city ...
Thrillist
Today it's probably the hottest food neighborhood in the city, with restaurants like Scape -- the creation of Gerard Craft protégé Shimon Diamond -- and Bar Italia sitting a block from the World Chess Hall of Fame. It's another 15 minutes from the city ...
Categories: World Chess Hall of Fame
Stalwart Lars Britt dies from ALS - Lagniappe
Stalwart Lars Britt dies from ALS
Lagniappe
He gave him studio space, taught him the intricacies of appraisals, the research and how to frame. With Britt gone, Smith is ... “Lars was this past year trying to save up money to go to a national chess championship out in Las Vegas. He was just about ...
Google News Lagniappe
He gave him studio space, taught him the intricacies of appraisals, the research and how to frame. With Britt gone, Smith is ... “Lars was this past year trying to save up money to go to a national chess championship out in Las Vegas. He was just about ...
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Zoltan Sarosy celebrates chess on his 110th birthday - Radio Canada International
Radio Canada International
Zoltan Sarosy celebrates chess on his 110th birthday
Radio Canada International
Zoltan Sarosy received birthday greetings from the Mayor of Toronto, the Premier of Ontario and the Prime Minister for his birthday yesterday. The former chess ...
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Radio Canada International
Zoltan Sarosy received birthday greetings from the Mayor of Toronto, the Premier of Ontario and the Prime Minister for his birthday yesterday. The former chess ...
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China Gears Up in Artificial-Intelligence Race - Wall Street Journal
Wall Street Journal
China Gears Up in Artificial-Intelligence Race
Wall Street Journal
Google made a splash in that area earlier this year when its AlphaGo AI machine beat a South Korean grandmaster at the chess-like game of Go. But Chinese AI experts are winning international accolades, too. ... Didi, which raised $7.3 billion in its ...
and more »
Wall Street Journal
Google made a splash in that area earlier this year when its AlphaGo AI machine beat a South Korean grandmaster at the chess-like game of Go. But Chinese AI experts are winning international accolades, too. ... Didi, which raised $7.3 billion in its ...
and more »
Categories: Chess Research
To UT Dallas students, faculty, staff members, alumni and friends, - University of Texas at Dallas (press release)
University of Texas at Dallas (press release)
To UT Dallas students, faculty, staff members, alumni and friends,
University of Texas at Dallas (press release)
I had the privilege this summer to tour the new Bioengineering and Sciences Building, which is a 220,000-square-foot testament to their vision and to our commitment to interdisciplinary research. Here, talented minds from vastly different fields are ...
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University of Texas at Dallas (press release)
I had the privilege this summer to tour the new Bioengineering and Sciences Building, which is a 220,000-square-foot testament to their vision and to our commitment to interdisciplinary research. Here, talented minds from vastly different fields are ...
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Welcome to the Big Time - ESPN
ESPN
Welcome to the Big Time
ESPN
In early meetings with potential investors, Eccles was a passionate evangelist for daily fantasy sports as a game of skill, similar, he liked to say, to a golf tournament, a 5K race, a chess championship or a spelling bee. His initial pitches steered ...
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ESPN
In early meetings with potential investors, Eccles was a passionate evangelist for daily fantasy sports as a game of skill, similar, he liked to say, to a golf tournament, a 5K race, a chess championship or a spelling bee. His initial pitches steered ...
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Voice Recognition Software Finally Beats Humans At Typing, Study Finds - NPR
NPR
Voice Recognition Software Finally Beats Humans At Typing, Study Finds
NPR
Computers have already beaten us at chess, Jeopardy and Go, the ancient board game from Asia. And now, in the ... Researchers set up a competition, pitting a Baidu program called Deep Speech 2 against 32 humans, ages 19 to 32. The humans took turns ...
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NPR
Computers have already beaten us at chess, Jeopardy and Go, the ancient board game from Asia. And now, in the ... Researchers set up a competition, pitting a Baidu program called Deep Speech 2 against 32 humans, ages 19 to 32. The humans took turns ...
and more »
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No bull — AI investing is coming to Wall Street - Salon
Salon
No bull — AI investing is coming to Wall Street
Salon
And while computers might not (yet) be self-aware or able to the think like human beings, they're getting very good at learning how to diagnose diseases, find and defend against malware, and beat humans at games of chess and Go. Now they are ...
Salon
And while computers might not (yet) be self-aware or able to the think like human beings, they're getting very good at learning how to diagnose diseases, find and defend against malware, and beat humans at games of chess and Go. Now they are ...
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William the Conqueror has invaded Wallingford a second time - The Oxford Times
The Oxford Times
William the Conqueror has invaded Wallingford a second time
The Oxford Times
... be revealed, based on the very latest research and evidence." Visitors can also see some of the latest discoveries from recent Wallingford archaeology, including the smallest medieval chess piece ever found in England – a beautiful object made of ...
The Oxford Times
... be revealed, based on the very latest research and evidence." Visitors can also see some of the latest discoveries from recent Wallingford archaeology, including the smallest medieval chess piece ever found in England – a beautiful object made of ...
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LSD: the new breakfast of champions? Take a trip inside the world of microdosing - Wired.co.uk
Wired.co.uk
LSD: the new breakfast of champions? Take a trip inside the world of microdosing
Wired.co.uk
Google search volumes for the term "microdosing" have grown at a similar rate. Although WIRED found no completed clinical studies looking specifically at microdoses, Fadiman has been carrying out his own research by collecting anecdotal reports from ...
Wired.co.uk
Google search volumes for the term "microdosing" have grown at a similar rate. Although WIRED found no completed clinical studies looking specifically at microdoses, Fadiman has been carrying out his own research by collecting anecdotal reports from ...
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Williamson County library events: Aug. 24–30 - The Tennessean
Williamson County library events: Aug. 24–30
The Tennessean
Scholastic Chess Club: 4:30-5:45 p.m. Friday, Aug. 26. Ages 7-12. Class fee: $10. Two on-site chess coaches from the Nashville Chess Center will teach beginning, intermediate and advanced strategies. Every child is welcome, no matter their skill chess ...
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The Tennessean
Scholastic Chess Club: 4:30-5:45 p.m. Friday, Aug. 26. Ages 7-12. Class fee: $10. Two on-site chess coaches from the Nashville Chess Center will teach beginning, intermediate and advanced strategies. Every child is welcome, no matter their skill chess ...
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Registration open for Polk Scholastic Chess - The Ledger
Registration open for Polk Scholastic Chess
The Ledger
The nonprofit organization is supported by the Polk County School District. It holds chess tournaments that are open to all students in Polk County from pre-K through 12th grade. About 600 children participate every year, making it the largest ...
The Ledger
The nonprofit organization is supported by the Polk County School District. It holds chess tournaments that are open to all students in Polk County from pre-K through 12th grade. About 600 children participate every year, making it the largest ...
Categories: Scholastic Chess
