Wednesday’s Game 7 between the Astros and Dodgers has the potential to exceed even 2016’s beguiling combination of rich storylines and see-saw scoringGame 7 (* if necessary).Of course it’s necessary. The greatest sporting events do not come with caveats, and it feels right that a World Series as evenly-matched yet helter-skelter as this one should end with the built-in drama of a title-decider at Dodger Stadium on Wednesday. Continue reading…

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The White House is pushing a position of collective guilt that is completely unlike its reaction from just weeks ago after the Las Vegas shootingThe horrible terrorist attack in Lower Manhattan on Wednesday has so far left us with little useful information regarding the rampage and its perpetrator. But that hasn’t stopped either the media or our politicians from indulging in rank speculation and collective guilt mongering.Here’s what we know so far. We know that eight innocent people – including five from Argentina and one from Belgium – were tragically killed. We know that Sayfullo Saipov, the suspect in the attack, is a 29-year-old man who came to the United States from Uzbekistan in 2010, before Isis existed. We know that the attacker mowed down his victims using a rented van. And we know that after leaving the vehicle the suspect is reported to have yelled the words “Allahu Akbar” before being shot by a police officer. Continue reading…

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Manafort and associate Rick Gates pose serious flight risk, prosecutors sayTwo men under house arrest, with $10m bond for Manafort and $5m for GatesPaul Manafort, the former campaign manager for Donald Trump, had three US passports, millions in assets and ties to Russian oligarchs, according to federal court documents related to his indictment on tax fraud and money laundering charges. Related: Trump-Russia inquiry heats up as three key aides indicted Continue reading…

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End-to-end dialog systems, in which all components are learnt simultaneously,
have recently obtained encouraging successes. However these were mostly on
conversations related to chit-chat with no clear objective and for which
evaluation is difficult. This paper proposes a set of tasks to test the
capabilities of such systems on goal-oriented dialogs, where goal completion
ensures a well-defined measure of performance. Built in the context of
restaurant reservation, our tasks require to manipulate sentences and symbols,
in order to properly conduct conversations, issue API calls and use the outputs
of such calls. We show that an end-to-end dialog system based on Memory
Networks can reach promising, yet imperfect, performance and learn to perform
non-trivial operations. We confirm those results by comparing our system to a
hand-crafted slot-filling baseline on data from the second Dialog State
Tracking Challenge (Henderson et al., 2014a).

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