In Doe v. Boyertown, (3d Cir., July 26, 2018), the U.S. 3d Circuit Court of Appeals in a revised panel decision refused to enjoin a Pennsylvania school district from allowing transgender students to use bathrooms and locker rooms consistent with their gender identities instead of the sex they...
Month: August 2018
Deal To Free American Pastor Held By Turkey Falls Through
Washington Post reported yesterday that President Trump thought he had struck a deal with Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan at the recent NATO meeting for the release of American pastor Andrew Brunson who has been held by Turkey for two years on supposed terrorism charges:The deal was a...
6th Circuit Refuses To Reopen Asylum Claim By Egyptian Coptic Christian
In Welson v. Sessions, (6th Cir, July 26, 2018), the U.S. 6th Circuit Court of Appeals refused to reopen a petition for refugee status filed by an Egyptian Coptic Christian. The immigration judge had held that petitioner was notcredible and had not demonstrated a well-founded fear of persecution...
Will Hamilton or Vettel be top of the class at half term?
The F1 summer break is almost here with a title fight as dramatic as ever - so who can hold their nerve at the tight and twisty Hungaroring? Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/formula1/44860067
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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