On paper, my sleepy, benign town of Colonia, New Jersey, is insignificant. In the time it takes to sneeze, you would have already driven through everything Colonia has to offer. It makes most suburban towns look urban by comparison. Yet, as a kid…
Recent progress in text classification has been focused on high-resource languages such as English and Chinese. For low-resource languages, amongst them most African languages, the lack of well-annotated data and effective preprocessing, is…
A running joke on social media among New Yorkers who stayed put for the pandemic roller coaster ride these last seven months is to match evidence of joyful city life that has exploded everywhere against proclamations of the city's death.
Somehow, with the election less than a month away and Capitol Hill still reeling from a recent Covid-19 outbreak, Judge Amy Coney Barrett's first Supreme Court……
Christy Warner, a communications manager in Minneapolis, searched for months for a desk that fit her teenage daughter's room and was priced less than $200. “I looked on Ikea, Wayfair, Overstocked, Target, TJ Maxx, everywhere, and…
