If I had to guess what percentage of the readings assigned in liberal-arts colleges and universities were translated works, I’d say at least 50 percent. While I have no specific data to back up such a ...

Is That a Fish in Your Ear?: Translation and the Meaning of Everything. By David Bellos. Particular Books; 400 pages; $20. To be published in America in October by Faber & Faber; $26. Buy from ...

Called LOGAN, the deep neural network, i.e., a machine of sorts, can learn to transform the shapes of two different objects, for example, a chair and a table, in a natural way, without seeing any ...

Turning a chair into a table, or vice versa, might sound like somewhat of a magic trick. In this case, zero magic is involved, just plenty of complex geometry and machine learning. Called LOGAN, the ...

In geometry, the word translation means moving. It can help to think of translating a shape as sliding the shape. When you translate a shape: every point on the shape moves the same distance and in ...