The fear of public speaking is common even in a person’s first language, and in a foreign language, it can feel even scarier ...

Aside from “Oye Cómo Va,” Santana’s rock remake of the 1962 Tito Puente cha cha chá, and “La Bamba,” Ritchie Valens’ 1958 ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Among the myriad abilities that humans possess, which ones are uniquely human? Language has been a top candidate at least since ...

Thirty years ago today, Netscape Communications and Sun Microsystems issued a joint press release announcing JavaScript, an object scripting language designed for creating interactive web applications ...

In their classic 1998 textbook on cognitive neuroscience, Michael Gazzaniga, Richard Ivry, and George Mangun made a sobering observation: there was no clear mapping between how we process language and ...

Language is one of the few faculties that still seems to be uniquely human. Other animals, like chimpanzees and songbirds, have developed elaborate communication systems, but none appears to convey ...

Dr. James McCaffrey presents a complete end-to-end demonstration of linear regression using JavaScript. Linear regression is the simplest machine learning technique to predict a single numeric value, ...

The goal of a machine learning regression problem is to predict a single numeric value. For example, you might want to predict an employee's salary based on age, height, years of experience, and so on ...

Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) have cultivated impressive semantics capabilities and expert knowledge from their vast pre-training corpora, especially showing prospects in automated software ...

I have long remembered a conversation I had 20 years ago with one of my professors, an expert in what we then called artificial intelligence, which, in many ways, is wildly different to what we now ...

A new study claims to have identified the first speakers of Indo-European language, which gave rise to English, Sanskrit and hundreds of others. By Carl Zimmer In 1786, a British judge named William ...