Andrew Bujalski Talks Computer Chess

Andrew Bujalski's previous films featured college graduates struggling toward adulthood and personal clarity, dangling the potential for existential crises in front of them without ever delving in; Computer Chess seems to respond to that lack, watching computer programmers compete to build the first program to best a human at chess. While each battles to be the first to render humans obsolete (for the game of chess, anyway) the results of their war are something Bujalski calls "turbo charged mediocrity." Can they make the machine think? No. But can they make a really fast calculator? Youbetcha!

The convention head gives a slideshow and describes a mysterious figure called ?The Turk,? the only ?computer? to win a chess match against a man. Later "The Turk" was found to have a little chess master stowed inside it, making it a sort of intellectual Trojan horse--and a great metaphor for Computer Chess: it?s a comedy in documentary clothing, a philosophical battle inside a capitalist one, a present we won't realize will undo us. In the opening, the camera roves around the conference guests. Bujalski explains: ?In the opening, we didn?t have any better plan than to go around the room and have the extras in character talk to us. When I got the footage back and it looked so real?it would be easy to pass that off as documentary if we wanted to. Already there was this conceit built in: a cameraman is a character, and some of the footage may or may not be his; that?s very ambiguous. There was something mischievous about putting our best documentary foot forward and establishing a tone that we could then spend the next 90 minutes demolishing.?

He says his biggest goal for the film is to be fun and give viewers the room to choose the existential route or the comic one. ?It?s a constant question when you?re editing: Am I making this so computer desk programmers will watch it and say this or that is accurate, or am I making it so a normal person will know what?s going on? There?s always some feeling of sink or swim in the movies I like. I like to be pushed in a little over my head. If I?m in too deep I can?t get much out of it but there?s a level at which it?s fun and exciting to feel like you don?t quite know what?s going on but you?d like to. I?m always trying to walk that line.?

Source: http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/1927897/news/1927897/

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Major economies still struggling to create jobs

By JOHN HEILPRIN
Associated Press

GENEVA (AP) - Jobs growth remains weak among the world's 20 biggest economies, where almost a third of the 93 million unemployed have been out of work for more than a year, top labor and development officials reported Wednesday.

In a batch of new figures intended to push G-20 governments into action, the U.N.'s International Labor Organization and the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development warned the rate of employment growth remains low. The G-20 countries represent 80 percent of the world's economic output.

Over the last 12 months, unemployment dropped slightly in half of the G-20 countries, but it rose among the other half.

It was highest, above 25 per cent, in South Africa and Spain. It was 11 percent or above in France, Italy and for the European Union as a whole, and above 7 percent in Britain, Canada, Turkey and the United States. Unemployment was below 5 percent in only four countries: China, India, Japan and South Korea.

Among the total unemployed, about 30 percent on average were jobless for over a year, the agencies said.

Youth unemployment rates were twice as high as those for adults in all G-20 nations but Germany and Japan and despite the wide use of subsidies to encourage hiring of young people in Britain, France, Italy, Saudi Arabia and Spain.

The weakness of the global economy even six years after the onset of the global financial crisis has "blunted" many countries' efforts to find jobs for people, said Guy Ryder, the ILO director-general, and Angel Gurria, the OECD secretary-general, in a joint statement.

They advised labor ministers scheduled to begin two days of meetings on Thursday in Moscow that governments must ensure "a careful balancing between providing adequate income support for those out of work and with low incomes and activation measures which help them to find rewarding and productive jobs."

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Florida Georgia Line Announce Cities for Headlining "Here's to the Good Times" Tour

Florida Georgia Line has revealed a full list of cities they will hit this fall on their very first headlining trek, Here's to the Good Times Tour. The fun will begin on?October 3?in Brookings, SD and wrap in December. Over 30 cities will be hit along the way, including St. Louis, MO, Bowling Green, KY, Greenville, SC and Ft. Worth, TX. The duo's Brian Kelley and Tyler Hubbard are taking along special guest Colt Ford on the run, with select dates also featuring Tyler Farr and Dallas Smith.?

Tickets to the newly announced dates will go on sale in the coming weeks. The Lexington, KY show set for?October 19?at Whitaker Bank Ballpark went on sale last week, and sold out the 10,718 tickets in a record-breaking 23 minutes.

?We can?t wait to give our fans what they have been asking for all year ? our own headline tour,? says Hubbard. ?It is unreal and the first night of the tour can?t get here fast enough!?
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"This is another dream of ours coming true," adds Kelley. "I couldn?t be more excited and more proud of the tour. Having Colt, Dallas and Tyler along with us is going to make for a party!"

Prior to hitting the road on the Here's to the Good Times Tour, FGL will open select dates on Taylor Swift's RED TOUR. The guys are currently out on the road with Luke Bryan on his Dirt Road Diaries Tour. Visit?www.floridageorgialine.com?for a full list of all the dates where the guys will be performing this year.

2013 Here's to the Good Times Tour Dates:

Oct. 3?- Brookings, SD - Swiftel Center
Oct. 4?- Mankato, MN - Verizon Wireless Center
Oct. 5?- Fargo, ND - Scheels Arena
Oct. 6?- Bismarck, ND - Bismarck Civic Center????????
Oct. 10?- Murray, KY - CFSB Center
Oct. 11?- Muncie, IN - Emens Auditorium
Oct. 12?- Champaign, IL - Assembly Hall
Oct. 13?- Bowling Green, OH - Stroh Center
Oct. 16?- Springfield, MO - O? Reilly Center
Oct. 19?- Lexington, KY - Whitaker Bank Ballpark??????? SOLD-OUT
Oct. 23?- Carrollton, GA - The Coliseum/Univ. of W. GA
Oct. 31?- Chicago, IL - Sears Center Area
Nov. 1?- St. Louis, MO - Chaifetz Arena
Nov. 2?- Cedar Rapids, IA - US Cellular Center
Nov. 3?- Milwaukee, WI - Eagles Ballroom
Nov. 7?- Florence, SC - Florence Civic Center
Nov. 8?- Knoxville, TN - Knoxville Civic Coliseum
Nov. 9?- Greenville, SC - BiLo Center
Nov. 15?- New York, NY - Best Buy Theater
Nov. 16?- Upper Darby, PA - Tower Theater
Nov. 17?- Reading, PA - Eagle Theater
Nov. 21?- Huntington, WV - Big Sandy Superstore Arena
Nov. 22?- Salem, VA - Salem Civic Center
Nov. 23?- Greensboro, NC - Greensboro Coliseum
Nov. 29?- Ft. Worth, TX - Billy Bob?s Texas
Nov. 30?- Belton, TX - Bell County Expo Center
Dec. 1?- Austin, TX - ACL Live at the Moody Theater
Dec. 6?- Los Angeles, CA - Club Nokia LA Live
Dec. 11?- Fresno, CA - Save Mart Center
Dec. 12?- Reno, NV - Reno Events Center
Dec. 13?- Eugene, OR - Matthew Knight Arena
Dec. 14?- Kent, WA - ShoWare Center

Source: http://www.roughstock.com/blog/florida-georgia-line-announce-cities-for-headlining-here-s-to-the-good-times-tour/

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7 Gadget Predictions Sci-Fi Authors Got Right

Book: Neuromancer, by William Gibson

William Gibson said that the role of science fiction is not to predict the future but to comment on current trends. Nevertheless, he predicted cyberspace, reality television, and hacktivism. His debut novel, 1984's Neuromancer also contained a curious, prescient plot device, which the character Molly uses. "The glasses were surgically inset, sealing her sockets. The silver lenses seemed to grow from smooth pale skin above her cheekbones." Sounds like the potentially disturbing future of Google Glass.

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NASA aborts spacewalk after leak into astronaut's helmet

By Irene Klotz

CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) - A spacewalk to work on the International Space Station ended abruptly on Tuesday when a water-like liquid started building up inside an Italian astronaut's helmet, NASA officials said.

U.S. astronaut Chris Cassidy and Italy's Luca Parmitano were less than an hour into a planned six-hour outing when Parmitano reported what seemed to be water inside his helmet.

"My head is really wet and I have a feeling it's increasing," Parmitano radioed to flight controllers in Houston.

Thinking it might be his drink bag leaking, Parmitano drained the bag, but in the weightless environment of space, blobs of liquid continued to collect in his helmet.

"Where's it coming from?" Parmitano said. "It's too much ? Now it's in my eyes."

Cassidy, who had maneuvered over to assist Parmitano, thought the drink bag was the most likely source.

"There's no other place for it to come, unless it's sweat or urine," he said.

NASA called off the spacewalk just before 9 a.m. EDT and Cassidy hastily cleaned up equipment while Parmitano waited in the station's airlock.

"He looks miserable, but OK," Cassidy radioed to Mission Control.

Inside the station, NASA astronaut Karen Nyberg and cosmonauts Pavel Vinogradov and Fyodor Yurchikhin took off Parmitano's helmet and sopped up the excess water with towels.

The cause of the leak remained unclear, but NASA planned a news conference on the incident at 4:30 p.m. EDT.

Cassidy later told flight controllers that Parmitano had said the water tasted funny. "To him, the water clearly did not taste like normal drinking water," he said.

The spacewalk began around 8 a.m. EDT with Cassidy and Parmitano ready to tackle maintenance chores left over from a previous spacewalk on July 9.

Parmitano was setting up an internet cable between the station's Unity connecting node and the Russian Zarya module when noticed the liquid collecting inside his helmet.

NASA said there was nothing time-critical on the spacewalkers' to-do list, which included work to prepare the station for a Russian research laboratory slated to arrive later this year.

The walk was Cassidy's sixth and the second for Parmitano, who last week became the first Italian astronaut to walk in space.

(Editing by Kevin Gray and David Brunnstrom)

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/nasa-aborts-spacewalk-water-leak-astronauts-helmet-132712960.html

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