Some years ago, in a fit of religious enthusiasm, I decided that I wanted to learn Greek. This was so that I could read the New Testament in its original language, a desire I could not really explain, ...

"Some of this, I don't get." Recently, I heard a member of the chorus of Agamemnon make that declaration. And I sympathised. I was attending An Oresteia, the poet Anne Carson's translation of three ...

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Meta, owner of Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp, on Wednesday unveiled its latest effort in machine translation, a 190-page opus describing how it has used deep learning forms of neural nets to double ...