Here’s How the Pandemic Finally Ends
From Politico Magazine: A vaccine by early 2021, a steady decline in cases by next fall and back to normal in a few years—11 top experts look into the future. By ELIZABETH RALPH 09/25/2020 04:30 AM EDT Deputy editor at Politico Magazine. The microscopic bundles of RNA, wrapped in spiky proteins, latch on to human…
A language generation program’s ability to write articles, produce code and compose poetry has wowed scientists
Prasenjit Mitra, Pennsylvania State University Seven years ago, my student and I at Penn State built a bot to write a Wikipedia article on Bengali Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore’s play “Chitra.” First it culled information about “Chitra” from the internet. Then it looked at existing Wikipedia entries to learn the structure for a standard…