According to The Guardian yesterday, in France a trial court judge has told local officials that they must re-institute a policy of offering an alternative to pork meals for school lunches. A court in Dijon told officials in Chalon-sur-Saône that a refusal to offer an alternative for Muslim...
Religious Freedom and Holocaust Envoys Escape State Department Cuts
In a move applauded by Senate Foreign Relations Chairman Bob Corker, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson has notified the Senate that he plans to pare down the number of Special Envoys in the State Department. According to CNN, Tillerson will eliminate or downgrade as many as 36 of the nearly 70...
Suit Challenges Trump Ban On Transgender Individuals In Military
Yesterday three individuals and two advocacy groups filed a federal lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of the Trump Administration's recently implemented policy on transgender individuals serving in the military. The complaint (full text) in Karnoski v. Trump, (WD WA, filed 8/28/2017)...
Learning End-to-End Goal-Oriented Dialog
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...
CNN Publishes Obama’s Inauguration Day Letter to Trump
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