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Recently, a former national table tennis athlete Seo Hyo Wonappeared on E Channel's show 'Playful Sister' (literal translation) and spoke about her time as an active athlete.

Born as the eldest child in Gyeonggi City, Seo Hyo Won revealed that she started playing table tennis because her elementary PE teacher told her she will get a snack if she does exercise. That's how she began playing table tennis and even became the national athlete of Korea.After, Seo Hyo Won became famous for being known as the pretty table tennis player in Korea.

In this episode, the table tennis athlete talked about the difficult times she had while she was training to become the national athlete for Korea. In 2006, when she was a senior in High School, she was diagnosed with a back disk and was distraught thinking her life as an athlete was over. However, after one year of rehabilitation, she was able to make a successful comeback.

Yet, things didn't get better. Another ordeal came to the young athlete in 2008. The table tennis team that she had joined had to disband due to financial difficulty. Seo Hyo Won had no other teams to go to since she was not able to make the World'sTop 100 Athletes list. However, the legendary tennis player Hyun Jung Hwa gave Seo Hyo Won a chance to go on the world tour together.

Through this chance, Seo Hyo Won was able to participate in the Korea Open Table Tennis Championship in 2011. Seo Hyo Won made headlines at the time as she won against Ishikawa Kasumi, during the 32nd round between Korea and Japan. She had also gained much attention for her pretty looks and exceptional skills.

However, Seo Hyo Won gained even more attention from China rather than Korea since table tennis sports were more popular in China. Seo Hyo Won was selected as a member of the national team in 2013 and made her name known in China as she became the ace in the national team.

China also took interest in her appearance and for her beauty as various pictorials of the athlete spread across Weibo. In China, she became known as the 'Table Tennis Goddess'.

In 2015, Seo Hyo Won was also featured on the cover of thepopular male magazine, Maxim Magazine. She even became the model for a coffee brand at that time.

Making her first Olympic appearance at the age of 30, Seo Hyo Won is still active as a table tennis player currently, at the age of 34. Seo Hyo Won stated she never regretted becoming an athlete but regrets not spending more time with her father who died of cancer.

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A Umina Beach local has recently received national recognition after being named a finalist for two Australian business awards.

Founder of the Stay Tooned group of companies, Kate Toon, was named a finalist in the national MyBusiness Awards for both the Businesswoman of the Year, and the Training and Education Provider of the Year categories.

Toon runs her three businesses the Recipe for SEO Success, Digital Masterchefs and the Clever Copywriting school from her Toon Cave in her Umina Beach garden.

With winners to be announced on December 4, the MyBusiness Awards operates as the largest independent awards program celebrating SME business owners and professionals.

Toon said being named a finalist in the two categories has been an unexpected boost to the end of a challenging year.

The year weve had has been a rollercoaster, and Ive been upfront in sharing the highs and lows of running a business throughout Covid-19 with my communities, Toon said.

The skills in [search engine optimisation] and digital marketing training I provide have been especially relevant in 2020, with so many businesses rapidly having to bolster their online presence.

This recognition is a really lovely finish to what has been a tough year, and Im thrilled to be a finalist in two categories.

In order to accommodate a lack of space for freelancers to be given business advice and training, Toon said she built her businesses in response.

Toon also provides specialist training through two online communities for copywriters and small businesses and said she wanted to encourage these women to create a life on their own terms.

My leadership style is open, honest and relatable cheeky rather than conventional, Toon said.

I want to help other women feel confident about taking their own unconventional approach to business and not following the rules.

Toon was previously named the No.1 Woman in SEO by Serpstat, and received the award for Best SEO Community from SEMRush.

Her leadership has also been recognised recently by TAFE NSW, who invited Toon to be a presenter in their Women in Business training program a fee-free scheme to help women at every stage of setting up their business.

Source:Media release, Nov 12Chuckle Communications, Erin Huckle

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While I was in anesthesia residency at the University of Southern California Hospital's Department of Anesthesiology from 2006 to 2009, I learned how to put people under for surgery using an anesthetic called ketamine. Afterwards, as I began work as an anesthesiologist at a hospital, I began hearing interesting things about the anesthetic.

Researchers had begun testing it as a treatment for mental health conditions like anxiety, depression, and PTSD and with encouraging results. Having had friends and family members who suffered from depression, and knowing rates of depression and anxiety in the US were rising, I saw an opportunity to use my training in anesthesiology in a new, impactful way.

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It also has psychedelic properties, so people can gain insight into their lives and even have mystical experiences on it. One study found that it reduced symptoms of depression and anxiety in patients with severe depression, both immediately after it was administered and as well as a month down the line. Another found that it even provided relief from chronic pain that lasted for up to two weeks after treatment.

In 2014, inspired by findings like these and conversations with psychiatrists who were beginning to incorporate ketamine into their practices, I founded the Ketamine Healing Clinic of Los Angeles. Since ketamine has been available for medical usein California for over 50 years, I didn't face any legal issues beyond typical medical requirements.

Our ketamine supplier is Henry Schein, a medical supply company that serves as a middleman between doctors and manufacturers. I knew very little about marketing when I started my clinic, so to start getting customers, I hired an SEO company to make sure we showed up in Google searches and to run ads on social media. Soon, people were referring us to their family and friends.

Nowadays, we see about six or seven patients a day, and I devote most of my time to the clinic, while also spending several hours a week working as an anesthesiologist at LA's Mission Community Hospital and various surgical centers. We've particularly seen a rise in demand for our clinic services since COVID-19, likely due to the struggles people are having with quarantine.

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Dr. Mahjoubi with client Jorge Perez @jorgeperezjr preparing for a ketamine infusion session. David Mahjoubi, MD

I'll first schedule an phone consultation with potential patients to discuss what problems they're dealing with and what treatments haven't worked for them, and explain what we do.

During their first appointment, we take their vitals and talk to them about their physical and mental health history, and I determine the right dose and course of treatment for them, which typically involves five or six IV infusions over two weeks followed by maintenance doses once a month to once a year.

I have some patients who have been coming for as long as six years. There's no limit to how long someone can keep coming, unless they develop a medical condition affecting their metabolism of ketamine. I don't allow people with a compromised liver or kidneys to take our infusions, since this can be dangerous.

I make the infusions, which contain anywhere between 25 and 240 mg of ketamine, sometimes a negligible amount of relaxant, and anti-nausea medication if the patient needs it. Then my nurse will set the patient up in a private room, where they sit in a reclining chair and receive noise-canceling headphones so they can focus on their internal experience.

Once they're hooked up to the IV, they'll stay in the room for about an hour, with me or a nurse continually checking up on them. Afterward, we have a discussion about what came up during the infusion, and how they feel the treatment is working for them.

We also sometimes prescribe patients over-the-counter ketamine, which they can take at home as a nasal spray in smaller doses. I've had a few people start craving the spray and taking more than prescribed, in which case I stop prescribing it. I've never seen anyone experience withdrawal symptoms. I also recommend therapy to my patients with PTSD, although many people who come to us have already tried therapy and everything else under the sun.

David Mahjoubi, MD. David Mahjoubi, MD.

Often, the same themes repeat themselves in the kinds of epiphanies people have. The most common things people say are that love is all that matters, that they're done worrying about things that aren't a big deal, and that they want to reach out to and better appreciate their family and friends. We also get some atypical responses. One time, I had to stop a guy who began doing push-ups in the office post-infusion, because he was feeling extra motivated and energized.

Over time, I've seen people undergo big changes in their lives because of their work with ketamine, including a few who left abusive relationships, grew their businesses, or pursued totally new ventures. Overall, the majority of our patients report benefits from the treatment, and people typically come out of their infusions with a newfound will to live and increased clarity about their future. Some patients who came in with suicidal thoughts no longer have them at all.

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One I often hear is that if you take it, you could fall into a "K-hole," where you lose all sense of your body and reality. While this is possible at very high doses, we are careful to control the dosage, like in any medical procedure, to ensure this doesn't happen to our patients.

I hope that in the future, ketamine therapy will become a more widely used treatment for people struggling with mental health and an option that insurance companies will cover. I'd also like to see a governmental regulatory board offering a certification to ensure that the ketamine clinics out there are truly helping patients. When it comes to my own clinic, I'd eventually like to expand to New York City and possibly Madrid. There are very few ketamine clinics in Europe, probably due to stricter regulations.

Psychedelic therapy is a fascinating and rapidly growing field, and because of ketamine's preexisting status as a legal anesthetic, we've been able to be at the forefront of it. I hope that clinics like mine can set a precedent for the therapeutic use of psychedelics in a safe, caring, and accessible space.

Suzannah Weiss is a freelance writer whose work has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, and more. You can find her on Twitter at @suzannahweiss or Instagram at @weisssuzannah.

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In 2017 the chess world was shaken to its core when Stockfish (the world's strongest chess engine) was defeated in a one-sided match. It was not defeated by a human but by an unknown computer program that seemed to be otherworldlyAlphaZero.

Let's learn more about this powerful chess entity. Here is what you need to know about AlphaZero:

AlphaZero was developed by the artificial intelligence and research company DeepMind, which was acquired by Google. It is a computer program that reached a virtually unthinkable level of play using only reinforcement learning and self-play in order to train its neural networks. In other words, it was only given the rules of the game and then played against itself many millions of times (44 million games in the first nine hours, according to DeepMind).

AlphaZero uses its neural networks to make extremely advanced evaluations of positions, which negates the need to look at over 70 million positions per second (like Stockfish does). According to DeepMind, AlphaZero reached the benchmarks necessary to defeat Stockfish in a mere four hours.

AlphaZero runs on custom hardware that some have referred to as a "Google Supercomputer"although DeepMind has since clarified that AlphaZero ran on four tensor processing units (TPUs) in its matches.

In December 2017, DeepMind published a research paper that announced that AlphaZero had easily defeated Stockfish in a 100-game match. AlphaZero would go on to defeat Stockfish in a second match consisting of 1,000 games; the results were published in a paper in late 2018.

Unfortunately, AlphaZero is not available to the public in any form. The match results versus Stockfish and AlphaZero's incredible games have led to multiple open-source neural network chess projects being created. Leela Chess Zero, Leelenstein, Alliestein, and others try to emulate AlphaZero's learning and playing style. Even Stockfish, the conventional brute-force king, has added neural networks.

In 2020 DeepMind and AlphaZero continued to contribute to the chess world in the form of different chess variants. When DeepMind and the AlphaZero team speak, the chess world listens!

From the moment it stepped onto the scene, AlphaZero has changed chess by spawning a new generation of neural network chess engines, by contributing to chess variants, and through its transcendent games.

As mentioned, AlphaZero defeated the world's strongest chess engine, Stockfish, in a one-sided 100-game match in December 2017 (scoring 28 wins, 72 draws, and zero losses). The public was given 10 example games from this match, and the chess world's reaction was borderline disbelief.GM Peter Heine Nielsen likened watching AlphaZero's games to seeing a superior species landing on earth and showing us how to play chess:

Other grandmasters shared Nielsen's sentiment, including the legendary GM Garry Kasparov, who told Chess.com, "It's a remarkable achievement.... It approaches the 'Type B,' human-like approach to machine chess dreamt of by Claude Shannon and Alan Turing instead of brute force."

Others questioned the results because of the disparity of hardware used in the first match. Some also found it unfair that Stockfish was not allowed to use its opening book and its endgame tablebase.

GM Hikaru Nakamura stated: "I don't necessarily put a lot of credibility in the results simply because my understanding is that AlphaZero is basically using the Google supercomputer, and Stockfish doesn't run on that hardware; Stockfish was basically running on what would be my laptop."

Roughly one year after the first match, DeepMind published a new paper that announced an updated version of AlphaZero had defeated Stockfish in a 1,000-game match. This time, the current version of Stockfish (version 9 at the time) was used, Stockfish was able to use a strong opening book in many of the games, the time controls were adjusted (with Stockfish having large time advantages), and Stockfish was run on the same type of hardware used in the Top Chess Engine Championships (TCEC).

The results didn't change muchAlphaZero defeated Stockfish again with a score of 155 wins, 839 draws, and 6 losses.

In 2019 and 2020 GM Vladimir Kramnik was able to spend some time with AlphaZero and the DeepMind team to explore chess variants andco-wrote a paper with DeepMind about the exploration of new chess variants, including sideways pawns, no castling, torpedo chess (where pawns can always move forward one or more squares).

In September 2020 Chess.com hosted a roundtable discussion with Kramnik and members of the DeepMind team where they discussed variants and other topics. You can watch the full video here:

Many of these chess variants (and more) have been added to Chess.com. This article outlines the new chess variants and how to play them. If you want to check out any of these variants for yourself, simply head over to Chess.com/variants or hover your mouse over the "Play" button in the menu bar and select "Variants":

After you select "Variants," you are directed to the Chess Variants Page. All you have to do is select a variant and press "Play."

In this first game example, we see some of the magic that AlphaZero shocked the world with in the first match. AlphaZero gambits a pawn in the opening and immediately goes on the attack. After 19...Kxh6 Stockfish is up a piece, but the king is not safe, and the entire queenside is undeveloped:

AlphaZero keeps up the pressure, but its compensation for the piece is mostly unclear to us mortals. Only in hindsight can we tell that a couple of Black's pieces (most notably the a8-rook and queen's knight) will never really be part of the game. After 36.Qe6, the position has crystallized, and AlphaZero wins convincingly:

This second game example is from the second AlphaZero-Stockfish match. AlphaZero puts on a positional clinic and tortures Stockfish with the bishop pair in the endgame after 45. Bxe4. Here is the full game:

In the following video, GM Robert Hess covers this fantastic game in great detail:

You now know what AlphaZero is, what it has accomplished, and more. If you are interested in seeing what you can learn from AlphaZero's play, check out this great series of video lessons by Chess.com's IM Danny Rensch.

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As with Go, we are excited about AlphaZeros creative response to chess, which has been a grand challenge for artificial intelligence since the dawn of the computing age with early pioneers including Babbage, Turing, Shannon, and von Neumann all trying their hand at designing chess programs. But AlphaZero is about more than chess, shogi or Go. To create intelligent systems capable of solving a wide range of real-world problems we need them to be flexible and generalise to new situations. While there has been some progress towards this goal, it remains a major challenge in AI research with systems capable of mastering specific skills to a very high standard, but often failing when presented with even slightly modified tasks.

AlphaZeros ability to master three different complex games and potentially any perfect information game is an important step towards overcoming this problem. It demonstrates that a single algorithm can learn how to discover new knowledge in a range of settings. And, while it is still early days, AlphaZeros creative insights coupled with the encouraging results we see in other projects such as AlphaFold, give us confidence in our mission to create general purpose learning systems that will one day help us find novel solutions to some of the most important and complex scientific problems.

This work was done by David Silver, Thomas Hubert, Julian Schrittwieser, Ioannis Antonoglou, Matthew Lai, Arthur Guez, Marc Lanctot, Laurent Sifre, Dharshan Kumaran, Thore Graepel, Timothy Lillicrap, Karen Simonyan, and Demis Hassabis.

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