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...this way, a computer can create its own list of rules, and then programmers will tweak them. You might think the more images - and the more diverse the images - that a computer is fed, the better the system will get, but sometimes the opposite is true. The images can begin to generate rules that contradict each other. "If you have a set of 95 images and it recognizes 90 of those, and you feed it five more, you might gain five, but lose three," says Vincent Hubert, a software engineer at Montreal-based Simbioz, a tech company that is developing...
With the new anthology Best European Fiction 2010 (Dalkey Archive Press; 421 pages), edited by Chicago-based writer Aleksandar Hemon, our literary world just got wider. Hemon, an award-winning author who was born in Sarajevo and did not begin writing in English until he was in his early 30s, is an excellent guide to the European sensibility. And Best European is an exhilarating read. With stories from 35 nations and regions from Albania to Wales, it's like a Eurail pass that lets you tour a continent's worth of psychological landscapes. Trying to take in all of them...
...crucial details have yet to be ironed out: How many pages will people be able to see for free? By what mechanism will people pay? Will it be a paywall or more of a metered system? Can you pay not to get Maureen Dowd? "This announcement allows us to begin the thought process that's going to answer so many of the questions that we all care about," company chairman and publisher Arthur Sulzberger Jr. deflectingly told his own paper. "We can't get this halfway right or three-quarters of the way right. We have to get this really...
...burger joint was granted its new license after a final hearing Tuesday night and will soon begin its move into the space previously occupied by Calliope, a children’s clothing store, which closed last summer...
...Tuesday a state court will begin picking a jury in the trial of former House Majority Whip Mike Veon, a Democrat from western Pennsylvania, and three former party staffers, who are accused of running a secret campaign office in the Capitol building. The defendants are among 25 people from both parties indicted by state Attorney General Tom Corbett, who started the investigation three years ago, initially focusing on taxpayer money used to give bonuses to Democratic staffers working on campaign projects on official time. (See the top 10 scandals...