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'The Night Of' Cast Talk 'Dark' Side Of Character Development - Eurweb.com

Chess Research - Fri, 08/05/2016 - 11:46

Eurweb.com

'The Night Of' Cast Talk 'Dark' Side Of Character Development
Eurweb.com
You never want to play chess with someone who you constantly win with. How can you learn? And I think that's kind of — it's the old saying: Iron sharpens iron. ... “So I wouldn't like to stand up here and say that playing a fictional role of someone ...

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'The Night Of' Cast Talk 'Dark' Side Of Character Development - Eurweb.com

Chess Research - Fri, 08/05/2016 - 11:45

Eurweb.com

'The Night Of' Cast Talk 'Dark' Side Of Character Development
Eurweb.com
You never want to play chess with someone who you constantly win with. How can you learn? And I think that's kind of — it's the old saying: Iron sharpens iron. ... “So I wouldn't like to stand up here and say that playing a fictional role of someone ...

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STEM Summer Program Celebrates 25 Years of Inspiring Middle School Students - Education Week (subscription) (blog)

Chess Research - Fri, 08/05/2016 - 11:38

Education Week (subscription) (blog)

STEM Summer Program Celebrates 25 Years of Inspiring Middle School Students
Education Week (subscription) (blog)
So conceivably, a student could start with math and science enrichment courses at LSU Shreveport at 10 or 11, and finish a medical school research opportunity as an 18-year-old high school senior. Spaht sees having the program on a college campus as a ...

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North Penn Encouraging Students to Stay 'Mathematically Active' During Summer - Patch.com

Chess Research - Fri, 08/05/2016 - 11:05

Patch.com

North Penn Encouraging Students to Stay 'Mathematically Active' During Summer
Patch.com
According to research cited by the district, practicing math during the summer helps to stem the “summer learning loss.” Kids can lose more than two months of grade level ... Chess and Rubik's cubes do the same. These games are often about using logic ...

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How artificial intelligence will reshape our jobs, cities, farms - The Australian

Chess Research - Fri, 08/05/2016 - 09:01

The Australian

How artificial intelligence will reshape our jobs, cities, farms
The Australian
The machine won four of the five rounds it played against world champ Lee Sedol, eclipsing the 1997 victory of an IBM computer over chess master Garry Kasparov. “The breakthrough with AlphaGo is that it is a self-learning algorithm that learns from raw ...

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Mayhem reigns in battle of the self-healing computers - Financial Times

Chess Research - Fri, 08/05/2016 - 08:01

Financial Times

Mayhem reigns in battle of the self-healing computers
Financial Times
Computers have shown they can play games from chess to Go better than humans, but the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (Darpa) set them a much tougher challenge: to learn to fix themselves and protect against hackers.
Game over security researchers - DARPA's AI bug hunters are coming for your jobsThe Register

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No One Wins Gold for Practicing the Most - Scientific American

Chess Research - Fri, 08/05/2016 - 05:00

Scientific American

No One Wins Gold for Practicing the Most
Scientific American
He would later publish work extending his theory to other pursuits, including sports, chess and medicine. ... Jeffery Fairbrother, a motor behavior scientist at the University of Tennessee who was also not part of the study, agrees that the new ...

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Credibility of Electoral and Separatist Politics in Jammu and Kashmir - CounterPunch

Chess Research - Fri, 08/05/2016 - 04:10

Credibility of Electoral and Separatist Politics in Jammu and Kashmir
CounterPunch
Writing about this anti-historical attitude, Kai Friese reported in the New York Times that in November 2002, the National Council of Education Research and Training, which is the central government organization in India that finalizes the national ...

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Expert reveals how contactless card payments are still vulnerable to attack - Daily Mail

Chess Research - Fri, 08/05/2016 - 03:17

Daily Mail

Expert reveals how contactless card payments are still vulnerable to attack
Daily Mail
Dr Steven Murdoch, Principal Research Fellow in the Information Security Research Group of the Department of Computer Science at University College London explores the risks for contactless cards, and ways to solve this problem. ... The relay attack is ...

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Game over security researchers - DARPA's AI bug hunters are coming for your jobs - The Register

Chess Research - Fri, 08/05/2016 - 02:38

The Register

Game over security researchers - DARPA's AI bug hunters are coming for your jobs
The Register
The contest, held at the DEF CON hacking conference in Las Vegas, was organised by the research arm of the US military and saw seven teams test out their automated seek-and-patch-ware in a simulated operating system. The eight-hour contest saw the ...

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Here's why these 4 ASX shares are soaring today - Motley Fool Australia

Chess Research - Fri, 08/05/2016 - 00:15

Here's why these 4 ASX shares are soaring today
Motley Fool Australia
AngloGold Ashanti Limited (CHESS) (ASX: AGG) is the pick of the gold miners today after jumping over 5% to $5.85. The majority of the gold miners are pushing higher ahead of the all-important US ... Hot on the heels of a downgrade to a sell rating by ...

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Central Oregon Volunteer Search - Bend Bulletin

Chess Research - Thu, 08/04/2016 - 18:33

Central Oregon Volunteer Search
Bend Bulletin
CHESS FOR SUCCESS seeks volunteers to assist in classroom chess clubs throughout the Bend and Redmond area. Chess experience is not necessary. Volunteers will help take attendance and assist the coach with lessons. Chess clubs meet twice a week ...

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Kalimba Keeps Earth Wind & Fire's Music Alive at 3rd & Lindsley - Nashville Scene

Chess Research - Thu, 08/04/2016 - 14:38

Nashville Scene

Kalimba Keeps Earth Wind & Fire's Music Alive at 3rd & Lindsley
Nashville Scene
White, who attended Chicago Conservatory in the mid-'60s, had an impressive background as a studio musician for Chess prior to forming EW&F. He not only played on hits by The Impressions, Muddy Waters, Billy Stewart, Etta James and Fontella ...

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Wyoming Alzheimer's Group: Stay Active, Socialize - Kgab

Chess Research - Thu, 08/04/2016 - 13:03

Kgab

Wyoming Alzheimer's Group: Stay Active, Socialize
Kgab
Janet Lewis says the latest research shows being socially active seems to offer some protection against dementia, although researchers don't know why. She says that could include such things as being active in a church, going out to dinner with friends ...

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Hackers Fool Tesla S's Autopilot to Hide and Spoof Obstacles - WIRED

Chess Research - Thu, 08/04/2016 - 10:38

WIRED

Hackers Fool Tesla S's Autopilot to Hide and Spoof Obstacles
WIRED
“The worst case scenario would be that while the car is in self-driving mode and relying on the radar, the radar is obscured and fails to detect an obstacle ahead of it,” says Wenyuan Xu, the University of South Carolina professor who led the research ...

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Walmart Takes Fight to Amazon; Is It Too Little Too Late? - TheStreet.com

Chess Research - Thu, 08/04/2016 - 10:18

Walmart Takes Fight to Amazon; Is It Too Little Too Late?
TheStreet.com
Online sales in the U.S. are expected to reach $523 billion by 2020, a 56% increase from $335 billion last year, according to Forrester Research. The segment is expected to grow at an annual rate of 9.32% over the next five years. But at the same time ...

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Concord-Carlisle Chess Club to host Chess Week - Wicked Local

Scholastic Chess News Feed - Thu, 08/04/2016 - 09:47

Wicked Local

Concord-Carlisle Chess Club to host Chess Week
Wicked Local
The Concord-Carlisle Chess Club will offer its special Chess Week again this summer for students entering grades 4-8. The club meets each day, from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Aug. 22-26, at Concord-Carlisle High School, 500 Walden St., Concord. Life chess master ...

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Robot Funds and Bank Regulation - Bloomberg

Chess Research - Thu, 08/04/2016 - 08:36

Robot Funds and Bank Regulation
Bloomberg
As a result, more funds outside the traditional quant universe are snapping up computer scientists, overhauling their technology, and tapping new sources of big data and analytics, like Kensho, which automates previously human-intensive research ...

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Why is social engagement so important as we age? - The Daily Courier

Chess Research - Thu, 08/04/2016 - 08:04

Why is social engagement so important as we age?
The Daily Courier
According to data from the Pew Research Center's internet & American Life Project, the 74-plus demographic is the fastest-growing group across Web-based social networks. Use of sites like Facebook and Twitter among internet users 65 and older grew 100 ...

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