Month: October 2019
October 31, 2019
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How Lana Del Rey’s career explains a huge shift in the way we think about pop stars
“Lana Del Rey poses for a portrait during a visit to 107.7 The End on October 2, 2019, in Seattle, Washington. Mat Hayward/Getty Images At the end of August,…”
October 29, 2019
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“Why millennial women have fallen in love with Matisse.”
October 28, 2019
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“In 2012 or so, if you’d asked most people in tech about ’neural networks’, if they had any answer at all they might well have said that it was an obscure idea”
October 27, 2019
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Machines Beat Humans on a Reading Test. But Do They Understand? | Quanta Magazine
“In the fall of 2017, Sam Bowman , a computational linguist at New York University, figured that computers still weren’t very good at understanding the written…”
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The 2010s Have Broken Our Sense Of Time
“The 2010s Broke Our Sense Of Time The rhythms of American life changed in the 2010s. How everything from TV to Trump to Instagram messed with your head just…”
October 20, 2019
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The Leafy Love Affair Between Millennials and Houseplants
“Summer Rayne Oakes understands why so many millennials have developed houseplant fever. Until very recently, I went about my days with a moderate case of “plant…”
October 10, 2019
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Why do some people develop the lost camera films of total strangers?
“‘Pictures are our only defence against time’: a rediscovered family portrait from Evansville, Indiana, probably 1940s T he woman in the photographs had an…”
October 4, 2019
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A strong grip? Push-ups? What actually can help you live to a ripe old age.
“So you want to live to a healthy old age. But how?”