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32 Products You Should Always Buy Generic

Igor Borodin / Shutterstock.com Loyalty usually is a great quality, but it can be costly when you shop. Sticking to just one brand rarely makes sense when the only meaningful difference between a national brand product and its generic version is the price. Sometimes brand-name products offer something unique. More …

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Mourning My Mom, One Red Carpet at a Time

For most of my adult life, every winter when awards season rolled around I would get primed and ready to have an epic night. Not because I was an Oscar-nominated ingénue about to walk the red carpet in Valentino couture and Bulgari earrings, but because my mom’s red carpet commentary …

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Google releases TyDi QA, a data set that aims to capture the uniqueness of languages

Google hopes to spur the development of AI capable of understanding the ways in which languages express different meanings. To this end, company researchers today detailed a data set — TyDi QA, a question-answering data set covering 11 languages — inspired by typological diversity, or the notion that different languages …

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