It’s the game before the Games. Athletes coming to Pyeongchang strategize for weeks about how to overcome a foe they can’t see. Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/11/sports/olympics/common-cold-athletes.html?partner=rss
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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...
The Simple and Misleading Analytics of a Corporate Tax Cut (More Wonkery)
A minor error, a revealing moment. Source: https://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2017/10/24/the-simple-and-misleading-analytics-of-a-corporate-tax-cut-more-wonkery/
Senate’s Bipartisan Budget Agreement Will Assure FEMA Assistance For Houses of Worship
The Bipartisan Budget Agreement (full text) which will be voted on today by the Senate (CNN report) includes provisions assuring that houses of worship will be able to receive disaster assistance from FEMA. The Stafford Act, Sec. 42 USC Sec. 5172 allows federal assistance for repair or...
Moss to retire from public life following illness
Motor racing legend Sir Stirling Moss decides to retire from public life following a long illness. Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/formula1/42748656
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