March 26, 2019

A non-profit lab called Open AI has announced that they’ve trained a machine to read, write, translate, and summarize text unsupervised. According to Open AI’s blog post, the objective is… Read more »

Science

New children's book tells the story of the Chinese doctor who tried to warn the world about coronavirus — Nikki Griffiths
Jeffrey Epstein's ties to the publishing world — Ryan Harrington
"Civilization backup" on its way to the moon — Christina Cerio
The intersection of poetry and science is more likely than you think — Erica Huang

Book reading models are lit

Stephanie DeLuca

Bella and Gigi Hadid make books the hot new accessory of 2019 https://t.co/TR3gIo0Vrv pic.twitter.com/Zg3H5JQefU— New York Post (@nypost) March 19, 2019 Last week, infamous tabloid newspaper the New York Post… Read more »

Five koans of wisdom from the screenwriter of Blade Runner

Michael Barron

Melville House just published The Wall Will Tell You, a collection of meditations on the art of screenwriting by Hampton Fancher of Blade Runner fame. Written as a series of bite-sized meditations,… Read more »

Melville House Books

Robot authors trying to compete with Orwell

Christina Cerio

Book reading models are lit

Stephanie DeLuca

Five koans of wisdom from the screenwriter of Blade Runner

Michael Barron