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Chess notes - The Boston Globe
The Boston Globe
... Boylston Chess Club, www.BoylstonChessClub.org/; February Quads, Feb. 6, www.BoylstonChessClub.org, Spiegel Cup Series — 23rd NESSP Scholastic Chess Tournament, Feb. 7, NESSP, 290 Littleton Road, Unit 3, Chelmsford, www.nessp.org/chess.
Chess notes - The Boston Globe
The Boston Globe
The Boston Globe
... Boylston Chess Club, www.BoylstonChessClub.org/; February Quads, Feb. 6, www.BoylstonChessClub.org, Spiegel Cup Series — 23rd NESSP Scholastic Chess Tournament, Feb. 7, NESSP, 290 Littleton Road, Unit 3, Chelmsford, www.nessp.org/chess.
Rays address offense with offseason deals - The Ledger
The Ledger
And I think if you ever do research on any hitter, their track record tells you more who they are and what kind of hitter they are and not just because of their home-road split. "I think if you look at my track ... Dickerson has played only 10 career ...
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Saudi Arabia, an ISIS That Has Made It. The West Shakes Hands with the State Sponsors of Terrorism - Center for Research on Globalization
Center for Research on Globalization
Center for Research on Globalization
Saudi Arabia remains an ally of the West in the many chess games playing out in the Middle East. It is preferred to Iran, that gray Daesh. And there's the trap. Denial creates the illusion of equilibrium. Jihadism is denounced as the scourge of the ...
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How to Raise a Creative Child. Step One: Back Off - New York Times
New York Times
Research suggests that the most creative children are the least likely to become the teacher's pet, and in response, many learn to keep their original ideas to themselves. In the language of the critic William Deresiewicz, they become the excellent sheep.
The power law that could hold the key to predicting cancer cell mutations - The National
The National
The National
This month, researchers at the Institute of Cancer Research, London announced that mutations in tumours also obeyed a power law, with implications that could save lives. A team ... Study co-leader Dr Andrea Sottoriva uses the analogy of a game of chess.
NYC pilot program aims to foster greater school diversity - KCBD-TV
KCBD-TV
"Your child is going to be in a classroom with children who are different from them," Soto told parents during a tour this month, in between fielding questions about the school's fencing program and its chess club. That's not always the case. The city ...
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NYC pilot program aims to foster greater school diversity - WREX-TV
WREX-TV
"Your child is going to be in a classroom with children who are different from them," Soto told parents during a tour this month, in between fielding questions about the school's fencing program and its chess club. That's not always the case. The city ...
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NYC pilot program aims to foster greater school diversity - Fox News
Fox News
"Your child is going to be in a classroom with children who are different from them," Soto told parents during a tour this month, in between fielding questions about the school's fencing program and its chess club. That's not always the case. The city ...
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Google develops AI which can beat human players at the game of GO - Shanghaiist
Shanghaiist
While machines have already bested humans at other games of strategy and intellect such as chess and Scrabble, Go remained a challenge for AI researchers. Some experts in the field believed that it would take a decade before a computer could defeat a ...
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Surface makes Microsoft money while the iPhone may be in trouble video - CNET - CNET
CNET
CNET
It's a very different strategy than what computers use to beat humans at other games, like chess or checkers. Google says it could further research in areas ranging from climate modeling to complex disease analysis. There is so much more news you ...
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Places to go and things to do in Northeast Pa. - Scranton Times-Tribune
Scranton Times-Tribune
2016 SCHOLASTIC ART AWARDS FOR NORTHEASTERN PENNSYLVANIA: today through Feb. 17. Mahady Gallery at Marywood .... CHESS CLUB: Tuesdays, 7 to 8:30 p.m. Abington Community Library, Clarks Summit. 570-587-3440 or lclshome.org.
Justin Peck Calmly Creates a Kingdom at City Ballet - New York Times
Larry E. Kitchen - Albany Democrat Herald
Albany Democrat Herald
He then was employed by the American Institutes for Research in Los Altos Hills where he worked on Project Plan which developed early computer assisted education packages for schools. From there, he was employed in data processing management at ...
North Shore Community Calendar - The Salem News
The Salem News
Marblehead: Children's Chess Club, 6 to 8 p.m., Abbot Public Library, 235 Pleasant St. Learn chess with Mikhail Perelsteyn. Beginner lessons ..... Marblehead: Free Story Time, 10:30 a.m., Boston Scholastic, 165 Pleasant St. For all ages. Free and open ...
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Google's Go Victory Is Just a Glimpse of How Powerful AI Will Be - WIRED
Phys.Org
WIRED
An artificially intelligent Google machine just beat a human grandmaster at the game of Go, the 2,500-year-old contest of strategy and intellect that's exponentially more complex than the game of chess. And Nick Bostrom isn't exactly impressed. Bostrom ...
Google's AI beats a professional Go player, an industry firstVentureBeat
Google's Go triumph is a milestone for artificial intelligence researchPhys.Org
Google's AI victory: Computer beats human champion at strategy game Go (+video)Christian Science Monitor
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AI a Go - www.waterstechnology.com
www.waterstechnology.com
www.waterstechnology.com
While computers have dominated in games like chess, checkers and othello, researchers thought that they were still "at least a decade away" from beating the full-sized, formal game of Go. Perhaps what was most impressive was that AlphaGo "intelligently ...
The Phillies are building an R & D department, and that's brilliant - Philly.com (blog)
Philly.com (blog)
Philly.com (blog)
First, though, let's backup. You probably heard that the Phillies hired a former Google analyst named Andy Galdi and gave him the title Director, Research and Development. They had previously promoted intern Lewis Pollis to a full-time analyst, again ...
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Eastern Poconos Calendar of Events - Pocono Record
Pocono Record
Chess Club: 10 a.m. Jan. 30, Empowering Port Jervis community center, 11 Fowler St., Port Jervis. (Jan. 23, 30) For all ages, beginners or experienced. Free. 845-856-3991. Winter Carnival at Camp Speers YMCA: 10 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Jan. 30, Camp Speers ...
Justin Peck Calmly Creates a Kingdom at City Ballet - New York Times
New York Times
New York Times
The scenery and costumes — by Marcel Dzama, an artist with his own hip associations — are extravagant and fanciful. But there are no projections or special effects. The aim, Mr. Peck explained a few weeks ago, was to honor “the way ballets used to be ...