When I was growing up, my brother would babysit me. You would think that would be a good idea for my parents. It's a great way to save money and good for him to hone his skills when it came to responsibilities. For the most part, it was a pretty decent system but with the two...
That may seem like ridiculous blog hyperbole, but for a brief moment in the summer of 2006, it was truer than true. It was my first summer as a college student. I was living in a tiny but expensive walk-up in the LES, spiritually vacant and utterly depressed, making frequent trips to...
The origin of the chatbot arguably lies with Alan Turing’s 1950s vision of intelligent machines. Artificial intelligence, the foundation for chatbots, has progressed since that time to include superintelligent supercomputers such as IBM Watson. The original chatbot was the phone tree, which led pho...
NLP simplifies and automates a wide range of business processes, especially ones that involve large amounts of unstructured text like emails, surveys, social media conversations, and more. With NLP, businesses are better able to analyze their data to help make the right decisions. Here are just...
P: English also has the largest vocabulary. Often there are words for the same thing, one is Anglo-Saxon and one from the French – like “buy” which is Anglo-Saxon and “purchase” which is from the French. The French word often has more prestige. I: Anglo-Saxon? P: That’s the...
In 1950, Chinese language experts(专家) and scholars, Wei Jiangong and Ye Shengtao, started to edit(编辑) the Xinhua Dictionary. There was a lot of discussion, research and paper work. Some hand scripts (稿件) were checked again and again like compositions, People’s Daily reported. Many ...
Myth #1: It's the sun. While it is true that varying intensity of energy from the sun has driven long-term climate changes like ice ages in the distant past, the sun can not explain the recent spike in warming. Over tens and hundreds of thousands of years, the Earth's tilt and orbi...
Frankmeans "Frenchman" or "free man." It was also the first name of one of the 20th century's most famous entertainers—Frank Sinatra. While parents who grew up in the 1950s and '60s may have been interested in naming their children after the famous crooner when they had children in th...
(again) ugh. Also no elevator and we are on the third floor. The final straw is that our hotel is right off of a main highway ( Hendersonville Road) and all night there is the roar of traffic and sirens. To be fair, the room was updated and clean. The price...
Frankmeans "Frenchman" or "free man." It was also the first name of one of the 20th century's most famous entertainers—Frank Sinatra. While parents who grew up in the 1950s and '60s may have been interested in naming their children after the famous crooner when they had children in th...