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On losing to a computer: Have rueful sense of own inevitable obsolescence, will travel. - Tampabay.com
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Tampabay.com
It's been almost exactly 20 years since the prototype for this kind of media circus was created, when world chess champion Garry Kasparov beat IBM's Deep Blue in Philadelphia in February 1996. (Kasparov would lose the rematch the following year.) IBM ...
Unleashing Artificial Intelligence with Human-Assisted Machine Learning - Datanami
Datanami
No fewer than 170 of the company's GPUs powered AlphaGo, a Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) Research program designed to play the ancient Chinese board game called Go. While IBM's (NYSE: IBM) AI technology famously triumphed over the chess master ...
What's in a name - Phys.Org
Phys.Org
Phys.Org
Marshall's painstaking detective work, which began more than a decade ago, continued on and off over the years as he conducted genealogical and historical research both online and at archives, such as those of the Hebrew Orphan Asylum. "And then at ...
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Oil bust puts tribes, towns over a barrel - High Country News
High Country News
High Country News
And then the global chess game that determines oil prices sent Sidney and its school district spiraling. “Now that we're in this boom and bust cycle,” Farr says, “the total amount of oil and gas money my elementary school ... Francis O'Sullivan ...
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On Chess: World focuses on St. Louis and U.S. chess championships - St. Louis Public Radio
St. Louis Public Radio
St. Louis Public Radio
In less than one month, the Chess Club and Scholastic Center of Saint Louis will once again become the most interesting chess club in the world. That is not because of some fluke; the American chess crème de la crème is set to step foot in the venue ...
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On Chess: World focuses on St. Louis and U.S. chess championships - St. Louis Public Radio
St. Louis Public Radio
St. Louis Public Radio
In less than one month, the Chess Club and Scholastic Center of Saint Louis will once again become the most interesting chess club in the world. That is not because of some fluke; the American chess crème de la crème is set to step foot in the venue ...
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Big Fight Over a Very Small Park in Oakland - KQED
KQED
KQED
James Johnson says that he hangs out in the park playing chess and listening to music. “We gather and tell jokes and laugh with each other. It's very real at this park. It's a lot of real people with no disguises,” he says. “We come ... Tiny, along ...
Gibbons given tourism and transport portfolio - Royal Gazette
Royal Gazette
Royal Gazette
Grant Gibbons has been appointed acting Minister of Tourism Development and Transport, in the wake of Shawn Crockwell's resignation last night. Michael Dunkley, the Premier, announced the appointment this morning in a statement that said Dr Gibbons ...
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'Prime Minister' Lula: The Brazilian Game-Changer - Center for Research on Globalization
Center for Research on Globalization
Center for Research on Globalization
This is Rousseff's one and only chess move left amidst an unprecedented political/economic crisis. Predictably, she will be accused on all fronts – from comprador elites to Wall Street – of having abdicated in favor of Lula, while Lula will be accused ...
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Will humans lose out to AI in eSports too? - Red Bull
Red Bull
Red Bull
Borne out of the research of British former game developer Demis Hassabis (the mind behind Theme Park's revolutionary and rather vomit-prone crowd AI) AlphaGo was able to defeat a human by observing thousands of professional matches, playing even more ...
Amol Rajan: Chess - the cheap, easy solution for our underperforming schools - Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Evening Standard
An influential 2010 study by Victor Lavy for the National Bureau of Economic Research suggested the amount of time spent on core subjects matters more than the length of the school day. Our exhausted teachers may well agree with that, just as they will ...
How Google's AI Auto-Magically Answers Your Emails | WIRED - WIRED
WIRED
WIRED
Smart Reply just launched on the browser version of Inbox, and it uses neural networks to come up with appropriate responses to messages.
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DC community calendar, March 17-24, 2016 - Washington Post
Washington Post
202-671-3121. Free. Chess for kids A master chess instructor guides kids from the basics to advanced skills. ... 202-467-4600. Free. Learn to play chess For all ages and experience levels. ... Lunchtime tour of the Conservatory Visit a jungle, desert ...
Where Computers Defeat Humans, and Where They Can't - The ... - New York Times
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New York Times
Why it matters that Google's program defeated the world's best Go player.
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On Chess: World focuses on St. Louis and U.S. chess championships - STLPR
On Chess: World focuses on St. Louis and U.S. chess championships - St. Louis Public Radio
On Chess: World focuses on St. Louis and U.S. chess championships - St. Louis Public Radio
On Chess: World focuses on St. Louis and U.S. chess championships - St. Louis Public Radio
In less than one month, the Chess Club and Scholastic Center of Saint Louis will once again become the most interesting chess club in the world. That is.
On Chess: World focuses on St. Louis and U.S. chess championships - St. Louis Public Radio
In less than one month, the Chess Club and Scholastic Center of Saint Louis will once again become the most interesting chess club in the world. That is.
SPASH Chess Club ready to attack state competition - Portage County Gazette
Portage County Gazette
Portage County Gazette
He and his teammates will see how far their strategies take them when they arrive at the Wisconsin Scholastic Chess Championship this weekend at University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh. “I still get anxious,” said Chojnacki, who has been competitively ...