There will be sporadic or no postings on Religion Clause Blog between May 19 and June 4. Look for Religion Clause to return with regular postings beginning June 5. Source: http://religionclause.blogspot.com/2018/05/note-to-readers-religion-clause-will-be.html
Month: June 2018
Australian Appeals Court Upholds Refusal To Allow Testimony From Plaintiff Wearing Niqab
In the Australian state of New South Wales, the Court of Appeal in Elzahed v. State of New South Wales, (NWCA, May 18, 2018), rejected a Muslim woman's contention that she should have been permitted to testify in her civil suit against police officers while her face was fully covered by a niqab. ...
Hughes expects Saints to improve
Mark Hughes is confident Southampton will emerge a stronger outfit in the 2018/19 Premier League campaign after avoiding relegation last season. Source: http://www.skysports.com/football/news/11095/11396875/mark-hughes-expects-southampton-to-improve-next-season
Gravitational Waves Reveal the Hearts of Neutron Stars
Scientists are mapping the extreme interiors of exotic stars with unprecedented clarity, and setting new boundaries on the births of black holes -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com Source: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/gravitational-waves-reveal-the-hearts-of-neutron-stars1/
Supervised Learning of Universal Sentence Representations from Natural Language Inference Data
Many modern NLP systems rely on word embeddings, previously trained in an unsupervised manner on large corpora, as base features. Efforts to obtain embeddings for larger chunks of text, such as sentences, have however not been so successful. Several attempts at learning unsupervised...
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