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Dentists Are Reopening, but Should Patients Go Back?

At Dr. Todd Bertman’s office, the receptionist wears a plastic face shield. So do the hygienist and the nine doctors in the practice in Manhattan’s East Village. Dr. Bertman reopened the office two weeks ago after closing it in March in response to the coronavirus pandemic. In another change from …

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Tomatoes Are The Best Part Of Summer

My favorite summer activity is waking up early on a Saturday morning, taking a shower, slipping on a dress that doesn’t touch any part of my body, and walking to the farmer’s market. Wet hair on my shoulders and empty tote bag in hand, I’ll walk for 40 minutes just …

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Facebook releases AI development tool based on NetHack

Facebook researchers believe the Atari game NetHack is well-tailored to training, testing, and evaluating AI models. To this end, they today released the NetHack Learning Environment, a research tool for benchmarking the robustness and generalization of reinforcement learning agents. For decades, games have served as benchmarks for AI. But things …

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