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The Oxfam scandal shows colonialism is alive and well | Suzanne Moore
Privileged white men giving devastated, impoverished women of colour money for sex is vile exploitation, not prostitutionThe sexual abuse of women and girls by certain men who worked for Oxfam is clearly despicable. Let us not muddy the waters by describing this as “the use of prostitutes” or by...
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...
Dr. Isadore Rosenfeld, High-Profile Cardiologist, Dies at 91
When not practicing on the Upper East Side, he wrote best-selling books, had his own television program and led a medical research advocacy group. Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/08/obituaries/dr-isadore-rosenfeld-high-profile-cardiologist-dies-at-91.html?partner=rss
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/
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