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Psychology: No blank slate - Nature.com

Chess Research - Wed, 03/09/2016 - 11:55

Psychology: No blank slate
Nature.com
In 1966, psychologist John Money of Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland, met someone who he felt was the research patient of a lifetime. David Reimer, then an eight-month-old boy, had had his penis mutilated in a circumcision accident ...

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'The How and the Why': Two generations of women take on science and each other in this play - Minneapolis Star Tribune

Chess Research - Wed, 03/09/2016 - 11:32

Minneapolis Star Tribune

'The How and the Why': Two generations of women take on science and each other in this play
Minneapolis Star Tribune
Written by Sarah Treem, who has also achieved success as a screenwriter — she is co-creator of the Showtime series "The Affair" — the play begins with promising grad student Rachel arriving for an appointment at the office of established researcher ...

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Trailnet Art Bike Ride: Tour De Museum - ArtfixDaily

World Chess Hall of Fame - Wed, 03/09/2016 - 11:12

ArtfixDaily

Trailnet Art Bike Ride: Tour De Museum
ArtfixDaily
A variety of programs, tours, and activities will be available at each of the four route stops: Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, Saint Louis Art Museum, Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, Pulitzer Arts Foundation, and World Chess Hall of Fame. The ride ...

Ladies' Knight: Artist Talk with Crystal Fischetti - Riverfront Times

World Chess Hall of Fame - Wed, 03/09/2016 - 08:27

Riverfront Times

Ladies' Knight: Artist Talk with Crystal Fischetti
Riverfront Times
Join us for a special Ladies' Knight program with artist, Crystal Fischetti. Fischetti will be discussing her work, The Sun and Moon, currently on view in the Ladies' Knight exhibition. This chess set was created in collaboration with Purling London ...

Ladies' Knight: Artist Talk with Crystal Fischetti - Riverfront Times

World Chess Hall of Fame - Wed, 03/09/2016 - 08:27

Riverfront Times

Ladies' Knight: Artist Talk with Crystal Fischetti
Riverfront Times
Join us for a special Ladies' Knight program with artist, Crystal Fischetti. Fischetti will be discussing her work, The Sun and Moon, currently on view in the Ladies' Knight exhibition. This chess set was created in collaboration with Purling London ...

Data Sheet—Wednesday, March 9, 2016 - Fortune - Fortune

Chess Research - Wed, 03/09/2016 - 08:26

Data Sheet—Wednesday, March 9, 2016 - Fortune
Fortune
Microsoft's startling sequel. There was a time when the one thing you could be certain of in the technology industry was that Microsoft wouldn't work with ...

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A computer takes on a human master of the board game Go - CNN

Chess Research - Wed, 03/09/2016 - 08:06

CNN

A computer takes on a human master of the board game Go
CNN
The AI research community has made incredible progress in five years. Researchers at Google have turned what used to be theoretical machine learning constructs into tangible, useful products. Some of the effects are subtle improvements: more relevant ...

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What your gaming name reveals about your personality - Medical Xpress

Chess Research - Wed, 03/09/2016 - 07:51

Medical Xpress

What your gaming name reveals about your personality
Medical Xpress
People online often live behind a veil of anonymity – and video gamers are no exception. Hundreds of millions of people play online games every day and are ...

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Century grabs City Cup at chess competition - Post-Bulletin

Scholastic Chess News Feed - Wed, 03/09/2016 - 07:35

Century grabs City Cup at chess competition
Post-Bulletin
Century's Richard Huang makes a move against chess competitor Lourdes' Alex Gowan-Nuehring during the 2012 RASCL City Cup Tournament Saturday, March 17, 2012 at Century High School. RASCL is the Rochester Area Scholastic Chess League.

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Google's Go triumph is a milestone for artificial intelligence research - New Statesman

Chess Research - Wed, 03/09/2016 - 07:07

New Statesman

Google's Go triumph is a milestone for artificial intelligence research
New Statesman
Computer games have been a crucial test bed for developing and testing new AI techniques – the “lab rat” of our research. This has led to superhuman players in checkers, chess, Scrabble, backgammon and more recently, simple forms of poker.
Master of Go Is Walloped by Emotionless Challenger, a Google ComputerNew York Times
Man vs. machine: AlphaGo AI program beats Lee Sedol in first game of Go duelGeekWire
Going places: machine beats top Go player in win for artificial intelligenceReuters
CNBC -Financial Times -Wikipedia -DeepMind
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Master of Go Board Game Is Walloped by Google Computer Program - New York Times

Chess Research - Wed, 03/09/2016 - 06:33

New York Times

Master of Go Board Game Is Walloped by Google Computer Program
New York Times
The play is more complex than chess, with a far greater possible sequence of moves, which had led many researchers to predict that mastery of the game by a computer was still a decade away. To researchers who have been using games as platforms for ...
Why is Google's Go win such a big deal?The Verge
Today, a board game; tomorrow, the worldFinancial Times
Google DeepMind, humanity and a freakishly hard gameCNBC
KBZK Bozeman News -The Independent -DeepMind -The Verge
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Students to Compete in Westchester County Scholastic Chess Championship - Talk of the Sound

Scholastic Chess News Feed - Wed, 03/09/2016 - 05:34

Students to Compete in Westchester County Scholastic Chess Championship
Talk of the Sound
WHITE PLAINS, NY -- Registration is now open for the 2016Westchester County Scholastic Chess Championship being held Saturday, March 5 at Church Street Elementary, 295 Church St., White Plains, NY 10603. The tournament is open to area students ...

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Quartz Daily Brief—Americas edition—Trump and Sanders win big ... - Quartz

Chess Research - Wed, 03/09/2016 - 04:47

Quartz Daily Brief—Americas edition—Trump and Sanders win big ...
Quartz
What to watch for today Slovenia and Croatia shut their borders. Only refugees with valid visas will be able to transit through from today onwards. Serbia and ...

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What your gaming name reveals about your personality - EconoTimes - EconoTimes

Chess Research - Wed, 03/09/2016 - 03:11

EconoTimes

What your gaming name reveals about your personality - EconoTimes
EconoTimes
EconoTimes is a fast growing non-partisan source of news and intelligence on global economy and financial markets, providing timely, relevant, and critical ...

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Man vs. machine: AlphaGo AI program beats Lee Sedol in first game of Go duel - GeekWire

Chess Research - Wed, 03/09/2016 - 02:57

Hindustan Times

Man vs. machine: AlphaGo AI program beats Lee Sedol in first game of Go duel
GeekWire
Go is arguably the world's most complex game because its 19-by-19 playing board provides for 10170 legal positions, compared with 1050 positions for chess. This week's match has been compared to the historic chess duel between IBM's ... Google Deepmind ...
Going places: machine beats top Go player in win for artificial intelligenceReuters
A new AI frontier: Winning this freakishly hard gameCNBC
Google's DeepMind AlphaGo beats world Go champion in first of five matchesDaily Mail
Popular Mechanics -Bloomberg View -DeepMind -YouTube
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Twitter is 10. Where were other social networks after a decade? - New Statesman

Chess Research - Wed, 03/09/2016 - 02:26

New Statesman

Twitter is 10. Where were other social networks after a decade?
New Statesman
Twitter, for all its sins, has made it to 10. A whole decade. Which, given that the world wide web itself is only around a quarter of a century old, is no mean feat.

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Ladies' Knight - West End Word

World Chess Hall of Fame - Wed, 03/09/2016 - 02:01

Ladies' Knight
West End Word
A special Ladies' Knight program with artist Crystal Fischetti will be held on Wednesday, March 9, 6:30 to 8 p.m., at World Chess Hall of Fame, 4652 Maryland Ave. Cost: $5 at the door, free for World Chess Hall of Fame members. For more information or ...

Quartz Daily Brief—Europe and Africa edition—Google AI vs. Go, Sanders wins Michigan, mansplaining Women's Day - Quartz

Chess Research - Tue, 03/08/2016 - 23:26

Quartz Daily Brief—Europe and Africa edition—Google AI vs. Go, Sanders wins Michigan, mansplaining Women's Day
Quartz
The game, which is based on intuition and much more complicated than chess, will test the DeepMind AI's abilities against a human expert. While you ... Companies with a larger share of women in senior roles are more profitable, according to IMF research.

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A new AI frontier: Winning this freakishly hard game - CNBC

Chess Research - Tue, 03/08/2016 - 21:37

CNBC

A new AI frontier: Winning this freakishly hard game
CNBC
The tricky part, Demis Hassabis, vice president of engineering at Google DeepMind, told the press conference, was that unlike a game of chess which, for example, has on average 20 possible moves from an average position, a game of Go could have more ...
Tonight: Watch an AI Take On One of the World's Best Go PlayersPopular Mechanics
Google vs. Go: can AI beat the ultimate board game?The Verge
AlphaGo: a computer program so close to human intelligence it's far from artificialDeutsche Welle
WIRED -VentureBeat -DeepMind -YouTube
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The one-minute trick that will fix your back pain for good - Stuff.co.nz

Chess Research - Tue, 03/08/2016 - 21:02

Stuff.co.nz

The one-minute trick that will fix your back pain for good
Stuff.co.nz
The perfect example is the chess press, something that for men is a go-to exercise because they want a big chest and big shoulders. All it's doing is shortening your pec major and pec minor and internally rotating your shoulders, giving you that ...

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