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According to Aziz F. Rana '00, his friends in Matthews handed him a fake white envelope early yesterday morning bearing the officially printed "Welcome to Currier...
...JERSEY: Although the mega-losing New Jersey Nets have long been accused of impersonating a professional basketball team, it turns out basketball wasn't the only thing being faked in the Meadowlands. Nets officials admitted Friday that they had blasted recorded crowd noise through arena speakers to to pump up the volume at home games. "Some of this stuff is embarrassing," coach John Calipari told the New York Daily News. "I just shook my head. I said, "Do we need to do that?' " said Calipari, who learned of the high-decibel hoax early in the season. The interesting thing...
...curious theater of the time based in Paris called the Grand Guignol. For over six decades, the Guignol produced plays resembling a grotesque puppet show, but with live actors. Real-life crime and bawdiness were brought to the stage for elite audiences craving campy entertainment full of fake blood and unthinkable acts of horror...
...intuition remains solely the province of human intelligence, why not just fake it? Why not teach the machine how the chess building blocks it can understand relate to one another? Benjamin has spent the past year helping Deep Blue's programmers encode thousands of positional evaluation rules, leavening the program's computational prowess with what one might call street smarts. "The hardware can detect certain features of a chessboard," says Campbell. "Rooks on open files, pins, pawn structure. It's a matter of assigning weights to how important these features are in a given position...
...despite my efforts to answer Suleiman's questions about forged posters, he has misrepresented the information I gave him for the purpose of ridiculing Peninsula. Dan asked if I could answer some questions about the posters. I replied at the beginning of our conversation, "I have not seen the fake posters, so I don't think I can help you. You may want to try Brad Whitman or Chris Griffith." In fact, I was surprised to receive a call in the first place since I am not a member of Peninsula's Council. As I'm sure the editors know...