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Violent video games eventually lose their ability to produce guilt in gamers - EurekAlert (press release)
EurekAlert (press release)
Gamers often claim their actions in a video game are as meaningless to the real world as players capturing pawns on a chess board. Yet, previous research by Grizzard and others shows that immoral virtual actions can elicit higher levels of guilt than ...
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Seadrift streets, drainage projects slated for completion - Port Lavaca Wave
Port Lavaca Wave
The Seadrift City Council amended its streets and drainage renovation list at a regularly held meeting Tuesday night. The list includes the installation of a culvert across Railroad Street at the St. Louis Avenue and 2nd Street intersection ...
Area Students Buckle Down For Tests - Payson Roundup
Payson Roundup
Payson Roundup
#Last year, the Arizona State Board of Education awarded a $19 million contract to American Institutes for Research (AIR) to work with state education staffers to develop a new test to measure student mastery of the Arizona College and Career Ready ...
Disjecta connects to Kenton with music as the medium - Oregon ArtsWatch
Oregon ArtsWatch
An incredible amount of research is apparent in the exhibition, creating a living archive of those who produce music in the neighborhood. Not meant to be a comprehensive index, The Music That Makes Us is more of a suggestion of the richness of any ...
India, Pakistan aur woh: With China and Baloch insurgents involved, New Delhi should be prepared for more flip-flops - Firstpost
Firstpost
Firstpost
Even before the summer of 2016 can hit the peak, Pakistan is sweating because of rising turbulence in Balochistan province. Its fear is evident in the flip-flops on the peace process with India and refusal to allow the National Investigating Agency ...
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Students honored at 2016 Student Life Awards - FIU News
FIU News
FIU News
Visiting over 2,500 students in 14 South Florida schools through the FIU Engineers on Wheels community outreach program, RISE (Research, Internships, and Scholarships in Engineering) demonstrates a desire to give back to its community without expecting ...
Students honored at 2016 Student Life Awards - FIU News
FIU News
FIU News
Visiting over 2,500 students in 14 South Florida schools through the FIU Engineers on Wheels community outreach program, RISE (Research, Internships, and Scholarships in Engineering) demonstrates a desire to give back to its community without expecting ...
Violent video games eventually lose their ability to produce guilt in gamers - UB News Center
UB News Center
Gamers often claim their actions in a video game are as meaningless to the real world as players capturing pawns on a chess board. Yet, previous research by Grizzard and others shows that immoral virtual actions can elicit higher levels of guilt than ...
How can deep learning impact healthcare? - News-Medical.net
News-Medical.net
News-Medical.net
Professor Neil Lawrence, University of Sheffield, however, is disappointed it took so long for deep learning to crack the game of Go, particularly when computer programs were able to beat humans at Chess over 20 years ago. Lawrence described the data ...
Club News - Lowell Sun
Lowell Sun
TEWKSBURY HISTORICAL SOCIETY: The Society's mission is to preserve Tewksbury's history, educate people of Tewksbury's history and help people research Tewksbury history. Open second and fourth Tues. each month, 1-5 p.m., in the local history room of ...
When Religious Groups Do What the Government Won't - The Atlantic
The Atlantic
The Atlantic
People here are deeply faithful—70 percent of adults in Arkansas say they are “highly religious,” according to the Pew Research Center—and many feel called upon by God to volunteer in their communities and to bring more people to faith. .... There's ...
Imagining the technological singularity with Factorio - Kill Screen (blog)
Kill Screen (blog)
Kill Screen (blog)
If a sophisticated AI can become a Chess Grandmaster in 72 hours and paint like Van Gogh, the question seems not a matter of “if”, but when—How long before the master accountant AI? The 10x programmer? The pulitzer journalist? If it is truly a whimper ...
Alphachat: the psychology and study of expertise; and the future for Disney - FT Alphaville (registration)
FT Alphaville (registration)
Ericsson, a professor of psychology at Florida State University, has just published a new book, Peak: Secrets from the new Science of Expertise, where he collects his findings from decades of psychology research and studies. The main thrust of the book ...
Beer & yoga; student meds stolen; oops - pot-laced brownies - Arizona Daily Star
Arizona Daily Star
Arizona Daily Star
This April 6, 2016 photo, shows the front of a fake $100 bill, in Waterloo, Iowa. Waterloo police are having a hard time cracking down on the use of fake $100 bills meant to be props for movies and music videos at local stores. Over the past few months ...
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Boardman Community Briefs - Youngstown Vindicator
Youngstown Vindicator
Take steps to help the Junvenile Diabetes Research Foundation (JDRF) progressively remove the impact of type 1 diabetes from people's lives. By joining a team or making ... Join the Boardman library for an afternoon game of chess. If you would like to ...
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Munster High School Winterguard takes first place - nwitimes.com
nwitimes.com
nwitimes.com
MUNSTER — The Munster High School Winterguard competed in the Mid-West Color Guard Circuit's Championships on April 2-3. The team placed first in Scholastic AA class. Munster High School Chess Team honored. The Munster High School Chess ...
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AD Search Committee commissions another search committee - Hammer and Rails
Hammer and Rails
Hammer and Rails
Let's go steal Whitman from Illinois. There has to be money sitting around somewhere waiting for a good use. Let's top Illinois offer by 150,000 a year and give him some of the Purdue Research foundation land to build a house on in the country here in ...
Chess Tourney Draws 130 Kids - The Northfield News
The Northfield News
The Vermont State Scholastic Chess Championships were a big hit at Berlin Elementary School last Saturday. Over 130 students, from all over the state, competed in the 29th Annual event. Third grade students Grey Fearon from Vergennes (left) and Joey ...
Deer Isle-Stonington announces honor parts - The Ellsworth American
The Ellsworth American
The Ellsworth American
Vaughn has played on three Maine State Championship chess teams, participated in three National U.S. Scholastic chess tournaments and continues playing chess as one of the top boards on his high school chess team. Vaughn played varsity soccer in ...
Microsoft creates human-like chatbot - Johns Hopkins News-Letter
Johns Hopkins News-Letter
Johns Hopkins News-Letter
In a world that can now create anything, from artificial intelligence (AI) that can beat Chess and Go Masters to robots that can paint beautiful works of art, there are still a few things that hold these programs back from being realistically ...
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