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Monthly Archives: January 2017

Is Artificial Intelligence Permanently Inscrutable?

31 January 2017by TheThresh.com Leave a comment

By Aaron M. Bornstein Nautilus Dimitry Malioutov can’t say much about what he built. As a research scientist at IBM, Malioutov spends part of his time building machine learning systems […]

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INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS, LAW

The Law School Scam

25 January 2017by TheThresh.com Leave a comment

By Oliver Bateman The Atlantic The Charlotte School of Law may not be able to outrun the latest—and most damning—chapter of its at-times-scandalous existence. For years, the for-profit school was […]

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Murderous Manila

24 January 2017by TheThresh.com Leave a comment

By James Fenton The New York Review of Books One night in December, I was standing in heavy rain, under an umbrella, in a dark Manila alleyway, outside a house […]

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INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS, LAW

Women vs. Machines

18 January 2017by TheThresh.com Leave a comment

By Erika Hayasaki Foreign Policy It started as a seemingly sweet Twitter chatbot. Modeled after a millennial, it awakened on the internet from behind a pixelated image of a full-lipped young female […]

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INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS, LAW

This is Your Brain on Poverty

17 January 2017by TheThresh.com Leave a comment

By Karen Weese Pacific Standard Dr. Bryan Bledsoe was just trying to keep up. The emergency room at his small county hospital was always packed and the top brass had […]

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LAW

Why the Copenhagen Zoo Shot a Healthy Young Giraffe, Dissected it in Public, and Fed its Remains to Lions

13 January 2017by TheThresh.com Leave a comment

By Ian Parker The New Yorker In 2014, not long after Marius, the giraffe, was shot in Copenhagen, a British zoo professional had a conversation with Bengt Holst, the Copenhagen […]

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INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS, LAW

The Roots of Russia’s Political Appeal in Europe and the United States

12 January 2017by TheThresh.com Leave a comment

By Ronald Brownstein The Atlantic Donald Trump is practically alone in mainstream American politics in his consistent praise of Vladimir Putin and insistence that the United States would benefit from […]

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INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS, NATIONAL SECURITY

How to Proceed if the TPP Is Dead

11 January 2017by TheThresh.com Leave a comment

By Michael Auslin Foreign Affairs Days before U.S. President-elect Donald Trump takes office, there are few that hold out hope for the survival of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP). Outgoing U.S. […]

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INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS, LAW

The Lawless Trons of Cyberspace

9 January 2017by TheThresh.com Leave a comment

By Travis Nicks Center for International Maritime Security Open borders are here. You likely crossed the Rio Grande before breakfast this morning and you’ll sneak into China before you sleep […]

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