It is a shame that Professor LeCun appears to miss one of the central conceits of the film 2001: A Space Odyssey — namely ...
The agreement that terminated the Syrian Kurdish enclave was presented by its signatories as a pragmatic settlement. But, in ...
A critical look at Saira Shah Halim’s account of the Indian Left, its historical role in the freedom struggle, and the ...
To Ahmad Muna, co-owner of The Educational Bookshop, Francis' near daily phone calls to a Catholic Church in Gaza in the last ...
The AI pioneer on stepping down from Meta, the limits of large language models — and the launch of his new start-up ...
Language feels simple when we use it. We talk, we text, we listen, and words seem to appear naturally from thought. But the study of linguistics tells a more complicated story, one where language ...
It may be hard to recall the mood in the United States immediately after October 7. Major Jewish institutions assumed that there would be a resurgence of global Jewish unity. President Joe Biden and ...
A recent ground report in The Print documented anxieties about repression within sections of TISS academia. What they experience as persecution is withdrawal of exceptional insulation.
Encouraged by Olive, John had begun writing fiction, and his first book, a children’s novel, ‘The Summer of Lily and Esme’ ...
A new study suggests that language may rely less on complex grammar than previously thought. Every time we speak, we’re ...
Brain scans show a spot in the cerebellum attuned specifically to words, expanding on studies that point to the region's ...
Every time we speak, we're improvising. "Humans possess a remarkable ability to talk about almost anything, sometimes putting ...