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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...