I think about Epicurus at least once a week. I do not say this to suggest I am some esoteric intellectual with the time to ponder the philosophical musings of a man who lived over 2,000 years ago. Nor ...
Abstract: This research presents a novel method of automatic video summarising and note-generating using Natural Language Processing (NLP) and audio recognition techniques. The exponential rise in ...
Sam Yagan, co-founder of SparkNotes, OkCupid, and Corazon Capital.. Photo: Justin Clemons Like a lot of first-time entrepreneurs during the early days of the internet in the 1990s, Sam Yagan started ...
Representative Nancy Mace, one of the eight Republicans who voted to oust Kevin McCarthy as House speaker, walked into a closed-door candidates forum with a red "A" on her white shirt, igniting an ...
Transparency Item: The Perspectives section of the Graphic is comprised of articles based on opinion. This is the opinion and perspective of the writer. It’s a scenario many students have experienced ...
As a student, book summaries are an essential tool for understanding complex literature and preparing for exams. Traditionally, SparkNotes and CliffsNotes have been the go-to resources for summarized ...
Can you chip in? This year we’ve reached an extraordinary milestone: 1 trillion web pages preserved on the Wayback Machine. This makes us the largest public repository of internet history ever ...
The internet is full of interesting and important information just waiting for you to read it. The internet is also full of meaningless junk that’s a lot more fun to look at, leaving us little time to ...
I’ll admit it: I was the student that tipped the teacher off that half of our English class, including me, was using SparkNotes to “read” “Twelfth Night” by Shakespeare, instead of actually reading ...
When people think of their high school English classes, a few things usually tend to come to mind: memorizing sonnets, slogging through long novels with arcane language, and — of course — cramming ...
David Epstein’s new book, Range, isn’t about parenting per se, but Epstein thought a lot about parenting while he was writing it. And not just because his first child was born a few months before its ...