Input: 6 trades ahead of the Federal Reserve meeting
Trader Steve Grasso outlined riskier moves in KB Home and PulteGroup, two stocks which he owns. KB Home and PulteGroup have lost 12 and 3 percent, respectively, this year.

"You have to believe the whole market goes up to own those," Grasso said.

Read MoreHomebuilders call new labor law ruling crippling

Airline stocks have also taken a hit, with Delta Air Lines, United Continental and American Airlines all in negative territory this year. Trader Pete Najarian would look to buy the sector on weakness.

He called Delta the "best in the group," and contended that United holds potential because of its sluggish performance and cheap price.

Read MoreThis airline stock could rally 13%: Technician

Trader Guy Adami, on the other hand, pointed to surging JetBlue, which has climbed 66 percent this year.

Tim Seymour is long AAPL, BAC, CLF, DIS, F, GE, GM, GOOGL, INTC, JPM, T, TWTR, Tim's firm is long BABA, BIDU, MCD, NKE, NOK, SBUX, YHOO.

Long AMAT, BAC, BMY, BP, CSX, DISCA, DKS, FOXA, GE, KKR, KO, LLY, MRK, PEP, PFE, he is long calls AA, AAL, ABX, ALK, BEE, BUP, CRM, CSX, CVC, DAL, ETFC, HIG, HIMX, INTC, LM, MPEL, PFE, QCOM, VLO, XLF, XOM, ZIOP, he is long puts DISH, FCX.

Steve is long AAPL, BA, BAC, CC, DD, DIS, DECK, EVGN, FIT, KBH, MJNA, MU, PFE, PHM, T, TWTR, GDX, firm is long BP, CVX, COP, NE, NEM, OXY, RIG, AMZN His kids own EFA, EFG, EWJ, IJR, SPY.

Guy Adami is long CELG, EXAS, INTC, Guy Adami's wife, Linda Snow, works at Merck.
What was this article about?
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It's about: As traders prepare for rocky market moves on the Fed's policy decision, "Fast Money" traders looked to housing and airline stocks.

Input: Donald Trump has crossed an uncrossable line of bigotry
Republican presidential contender Donald Trump said on Dec. 7 that he was in favor of a '"total and complete" shutdown of Muslims entering the United States. (C-SPAN)

With his call for “a total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States,” Donald Trump has crossed an uncrossable line of bigotry and xenophobia. The Republican front-runner presents a clearer, more present danger to U.S. interests than the supposedly threatening Muslims he seeks to exclude. He is a one-man recruiting tool for the Islamic State.

Ruth Marcus is a columnist for The Post, specializing in American politics and domestic policy.

This was not Trump off the cuff, a Trump gaffe, Trump taken out of context or Trump responding ambiguously to a leading suggestion.

It was Trump being Trump, which is to say crude, intolerant and ignorant. Yet nothing Trump has said previously comes close to this un-American suggestion.

And nothing in my experience of U.S. politics has been so sickening, has made me so embarrassed for my country. Who could have imagined that any supposedly mainstream political candidate — no less the front-runner of a major political party — would propose anything so extreme?

How would Trump enforce this? By questioning entrants about their religion? By singling out those with particular names or from particular countries? What actual terrorist would “confess” to being Muslim? What other Muslim — any Muslim, anywhere — would not be grievously offended? Are we supposed to somehow feel better that Trump’s next-day clarification allowed that U.S.-citizen Muslims could return to this country?

Indeed, given his assessment of the alleged dangers of Muslim visitors, would Trump stop at foreign Muslims? After all, he cited a poll, conducted by a right-wing, anti-Islam group, purporting to show that 25 percent of the 600 polled believe that “[v]iolence against Americans here in the United States can be justified as part of the global jihad.” And he has refused to say whether he would have interned Japanese Americans during World War II, or even whether, in retrospect, the camps violated American values.

Maybe, just maybe, Trump — after calling Mexicans rapists, questioning John McCain’s war heroism, criticizing Carly Fiorina’s looks, mocking New York Times reporter Serge Kovaleski’s disability — has finally entered self-destruction territory. His latest is not simple offensiveness — it is the marriage of offensiveness and policy.

There is some reason for hope, in the appalled reaction of most of Trump’s Republican opponents. Trump’s “habit of making offensive and outlandish statements will not bring Americans together,” said Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.). Jeb Bush termed Trump “unhinged.” New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie said Trump’s proposal “is the kind of thing people say when they have no experience and no idea what they’re talking about.”

Others were shamefully mild. A spokesman for Ben Carson said visitors “should register and be monitored during their stay,” but that “we do not and would not advocate being selective on one’s religion.” (Except for saying earlier that a Muslim shouldn’t be president, that is.)

And Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Tex.), hoping to lure Trump voters if and when he craters, could only manage to choke out, “That is not my policy,” adding, “I believe the focus should focus on radical Islamic terrorism.” There’s a beacon of moral bravery — topped off by Cruz the next day, offering, “I do not believe the world needs my voice added to that chorus of [Trump] critics.”

All Republican lawmakers, party officials and candidates must immediately renounce Trump and assert that they will not support this demagogue at the top of the ticket. Failing to do so implicitly associates them with Trump’s bigotry. House Speaker Paul D. Ryan (R-Wis.) went halfway, saying that Trump’s proposal “is not what this party stands for. And more importantly, it’s not what this country stands for.” If so, why does Ryan say he’ll support “whoever the Republican nominee is”?

Trump speaks to a fear of Islamist terrorism that is palpable and understandable. There will always be some space in politics — and some temptation for politicians — to cater to the ugly, nativist instincts that such anxiety generates.

In European countries, these urges often find their outlet in fringe parties — or, perhaps, not so fringe. See France, where Marine Le Pen’s far-right National Front led after the first round of recent regional elections; Le Pen has called for an end to all immigration, legal and illegal.

The United States does not have a tradition of robust third parties; our extremists, of the left and right, must try to find a home within the two-party system. And when someone like Trump goes too far — when his approach, as former vice president Dick Cheney said, “goes against everything we stand for and believe in” — the parties have a responsibility, to the country as well as to themselves, to discredit the messenger and denounce his message.

Read more from Ruth Marcus’s archive, follow her on Twitter or subscribe to her updates on Facebook.
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It's about:

Ruth Marcus writes that with his call for “a total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States,” Donald Trump has presented a clearer, more present danger to U.S. interest than Muslims he wants to exclude.

Input: 6 trades ahead of the Federal Reserve meeting
Trader Steve Grasso outlined riskier moves in KB Home and PulteGroup, two stocks which he owns. KB Home and PulteGroup have lost 12 and 3 percent, respectively, this year.

"You have to believe the whole market goes up to own those," Grasso said.

Read MoreHomebuilders call new labor law ruling crippling

Airline stocks have also taken a hit, with Delta Air Lines, United Continental and American Airlines all in negative territory this year. Trader Pete Najarian would look to buy the sector on weakness.

He called Delta the "best in the group," and contended that United holds potential because of its sluggish performance and cheap price.

Read MoreThis airline stock could rally 13%: Technician

Trader Guy Adami, on the other hand, pointed to surging JetBlue, which has climbed 66 percent this year.

Tim Seymour is long AAPL, BAC, CLF, DIS, F, GE, GM, GOOGL, INTC, JPM, T, TWTR, Tim's firm is long BABA, BIDU, MCD, NKE, NOK, SBUX, YHOO.

Long AMAT, BAC, BMY, BP, CSX, DISCA, DKS, FOXA, GE, KKR, KO, LLY, MRK, PEP, PFE, he is long calls AA, AAL, ABX, ALK, BEE, BUP, CRM, CSX, CVC, DAL, ETFC, HIG, HIMX, INTC, LM, MPEL, PFE, QCOM, VLO, XLF, XOM, ZIOP, he is long puts DISH, FCX.

Steve is long AAPL, BA, BAC, CC, DD, DIS, DECK, EVGN, FIT, KBH, MJNA, MU, PFE, PHM, T, TWTR, GDX, firm is long BP, CVX, COP, NE, NEM, OXY, RIG, AMZN His kids own EFA, EFG, EWJ, IJR, SPY.

Guy Adami is long CELG, EXAS, INTC, Guy Adami's wife, Linda Snow, works at Merck.
What was this article about?
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It's about: As traders prepare for rocky market moves on the Fed's policy decision, "Fast Money" traders looked to housing and airline stocks.

Input: Donald Trump has crossed an uncrossable line of bigotry
Republican presidential contender Donald Trump said on Dec. 7 that he was in favor of a '"total and complete" shutdown of Muslims entering the United States. (C-SPAN)

With his call for “a total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States,” Donald Trump has crossed an uncrossable line of bigotry and xenophobia. The Republican front-runner presents a clearer, more present danger to U.S. interests than the supposedly threatening Muslims he seeks to exclude. He is a one-man recruiting tool for the Islamic State.

Ruth Marcus is a columnist for The Post, specializing in American politics and domestic policy.

This was not Trump off the cuff, a Trump gaffe, Trump taken out of context or Trump responding ambiguously to a leading suggestion.

It was Trump being Trump, which is to say crude, intolerant and ignorant. Yet nothing Trump has said previously comes close to this un-American suggestion.

And nothing in my experience of U.S. politics has been so sickening, has made me so embarrassed for my country. Who could have imagined that any supposedly mainstream political candidate — no less the front-runner of a major political party — would propose anything so extreme?

How would Trump enforce this? By questioning entrants about their religion? By singling out those with particular names or from particular countries? What actual terrorist would “confess” to being Muslim? What other Muslim — any Muslim, anywhere — would not be grievously offended? Are we supposed to somehow feel better that Trump’s next-day clarification allowed that U.S.-citizen Muslims could return to this country?

Indeed, given his assessment of the alleged dangers of Muslim visitors, would Trump stop at foreign Muslims? After all, he cited a poll, conducted by a right-wing, anti-Islam group, purporting to show that 25 percent of the 600 polled believe that “[v]iolence against Americans here in the United States can be justified as part of the global jihad.” And he has refused to say whether he would have interned Japanese Americans during World War II, or even whether, in retrospect, the camps violated American values.

Maybe, just maybe, Trump — after calling Mexicans rapists, questioning John McCain’s war heroism, criticizing Carly Fiorina’s looks, mocking New York Times reporter Serge Kovaleski’s disability — has finally entered self-destruction territory. His latest is not simple offensiveness — it is the marriage of offensiveness and policy.

There is some reason for hope, in the appalled reaction of most of Trump’s Republican opponents. Trump’s “habit of making offensive and outlandish statements will not bring Americans together,” said Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.). Jeb Bush termed Trump “unhinged.” New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie said Trump’s proposal “is the kind of thing people say when they have no experience and no idea what they’re talking about.”

Others were shamefully mild. A spokesman for Ben Carson said visitors “should register and be monitored during their stay,” but that “we do not and would not advocate being selective on one’s religion.” (Except for saying earlier that a Muslim shouldn’t be president, that is.)

And Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Tex.), hoping to lure Trump voters if and when he craters, could only manage to choke out, “That is not my policy,” adding, “I believe the focus should focus on radical Islamic terrorism.” There’s a beacon of moral bravery — topped off by Cruz the next day, offering, “I do not believe the world needs my voice added to that chorus of [Trump] critics.”

All Republican lawmakers, party officials and candidates must immediately renounce Trump and assert that they will not support this demagogue at the top of the ticket. Failing to do so implicitly associates them with Trump’s bigotry. House Speaker Paul D. Ryan (R-Wis.) went halfway, saying that Trump’s proposal “is not what this party stands for. And more importantly, it’s not what this country stands for.” If so, why does Ryan say he’ll support “whoever the Republican nominee is”?

Trump speaks to a fear of Islamist terrorism that is palpable and understandable. There will always be some space in politics — and some temptation for politicians — to cater to the ugly, nativist instincts that such anxiety generates.

In European countries, these urges often find their outlet in fringe parties — or, perhaps, not so fringe. See France, where Marine Le Pen’s far-right National Front led after the first round of recent regional elections; Le Pen has called for an end to all immigration, legal and illegal.

The United States does not have a tradition of robust third parties; our extremists, of the left and right, must try to find a home within the two-party system. And when someone like Trump goes too far — when his approach, as former vice president Dick Cheney said, “goes against everything we stand for and believe in” — the parties have a responsibility, to the country as well as to themselves, to discredit the messenger and denounce his message.

Read more from Ruth Marcus’s archive, follow her on Twitter or subscribe to her updates on Facebook.
What was this article about?
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It's about:

Donald Trump’s latest outburst goes beyond offensiveness into sheer policy danger.

He has combined offensiveness and policy in threatening to exclude Muslims from the U.S.


Q: Write a positive tweet.

A: @420thoughts haha, I don't know if I want a coldplay album, even if it is free

question: Generate a tweet. negative

answer: feek like poo today....cramps SUCK!!

input question: OPTIONS:
- negative
- positive. Generate a tweet that has the following sentiment: positive

Generated tweet: listening never shout never

Write a positive tweet. Possible types: OPTIONS:
- negative
- positive

A: Outski, Dunno what I'm doing today. Call me

input question: Write a random tweet?

A random tweet: @Jennifalconer I dropped in to have a look at MsTwitter and you got 10 votes whilst I was watching.

input question: OPTIONS:
- negative
- positive. Generate a tweet that has the following sentiment: negative

Generated tweet:

@DJSkream hi, have you got an adobe flash player? I can't see or hear your video!

Q: Write a positive tweet.

A: @420thoughts haha, I don't know if I want a coldplay album, even if it is free

question: Generate a tweet. negative

answer: feek like poo today....cramps SUCK!!

input question: OPTIONS:
- negative
- positive. Generate a tweet that has the following sentiment: positive

Generated tweet: listening never shout never

Write a positive tweet. Possible types: OPTIONS:
- negative
- positive

A: Outski, Dunno what I'm doing today. Call me

input question: Write a random tweet?

A random tweet: @Jennifalconer I dropped in to have a look at MsTwitter and you got 10 votes whilst I was watching.

input question: OPTIONS:
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Generated tweet:

@furrytomcat it could be a mistake

@justlikeanovel no I didn't. you know when you're just so tired you CAN'T sleep? that happened


who is the original singer of this is me???

Answer: Keala Settle

Question: who is presented the flag at a military funeral?

Answer: the next of kin

Answer this question: when did the original green lantern come out??

July 1940

Q: who won the ncaa women's softball championship this year?A: Oklahoma

Input: what is the steepest climb in the tour de france?

Output: Col de la Bonette

Input: where is the new series of lost in space filmed?

Output:

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

who is the original singer of this is me???

Answer: Keala Settle

Question: who is presented the flag at a military funeral?

Answer: the next of kin

Answer this question: when did the original green lantern come out??

July 1940

Q: who won the ncaa women's softball championship this year?A: Oklahoma

Input: what is the steepest climb in the tour de france?

Output: Col de la Bonette

Input: where is the new series of lost in space filmed?

Output:

Vancouver, British Columbia


Problem: Which common wildflower has the Latin name Bellis Perennis?
======
A: daisy

Q: Owned by the Mondadori arm of the Berlusconi empire, which women's weekly fashion magazine was established in Italy in 1938 with its British edition starting in 2005?
A: grazia

Problem: What spoken word competition, which has been organised for many years by Gary Hallock, has been held every May since 1978 in Austin, Texas?
Answer: o henry pun off

Q: George Fox was the founder of which religious grouping?
-----
A: quakers

Q: Who in 1588, commanded the English fleet that confronted the Spanish Armada?
What is the answer?

A: lord howard of effingham

Problem: Which composer, born in 1732, wrote the oratorios 'The Creation' and 'The Seasons'?
Answer:

franz josef haydn

Problem: Which common wildflower has the Latin name Bellis Perennis?
======
A: daisy

Q: Owned by the Mondadori arm of the Berlusconi empire, which women's weekly fashion magazine was established in Italy in 1938 with its British edition starting in 2005?
A: grazia

Problem: What spoken word competition, which has been organised for many years by Gary Hallock, has been held every May since 1978 in Austin, Texas?
Answer: o henry pun off

Q: George Fox was the founder of which religious grouping?
-----
A: quakers

Q: Who in 1588, commanded the English fleet that confronted the Spanish Armada?
What is the answer?

A: lord howard of effingham

Problem: Which composer, born in 1732, wrote the oratorios 'The Creation' and 'The Seasons'?
Answer:

franz josef haydn


Input: Behind The Brand: How Tim Mahoney Is Directing Brand Strategy To Keep VW At The Top Of Its Game
Volkswagen’s sales were up 35% in the first quarter–the best first quarter since 1973. The man behind the marketing behind that growth is Tim Mahoney, executive VP, chief product and marketing officer at Volkswagen. He came in to talk with me about VW’s sales gains, spurred by new products–including Jetta, Passat and Beetle–and advertising defined as “human stories told simply.”

With agency partner Deutsch LA, VW created instant-hit and Super Bowl darling “The Force” last year–the most-viewed Super Bowl ad on YouTube–and this year followed up with the “The Bark Side” teaser, which went viral. Innovative yet simple advertising is all in the name of consistency–held together under the “connective glue,” he said, of the banner, “the power of German engineering.” It’s a consistency and singular focus that crystallizes the brand’s essence, elevates the VW profile and keeps consumers coming back for more.
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It's about: VideoVolkswagen's sales were up 35% in the first quarter--the best first quarter since 1973. The man behind the marketing behind that growth is Tim Mahoney, executive VP, chief product and marketing officer at Volkswagen. He came in to talk with me about VW's sales gains, spurred by new products--including Jetta, [...]

Input: A Break for Code Breakers on a C.I.A. Mystery
For nearly 16 years, puzzle enthusiasts have labored to decipher an 865-character coded message stenciled into a sculpture on the grounds of the Central Intelligence Agency's headquarters in Langley, Va. This week, the sculptor gave them an unsettling but hopeful surprise: part of the message they thought they had deciphered years ago actually says something else.

The sculpture, titled "Kryptos," the Greek word for "hidden," includes an undulating sheet of copper with a message devised by the sculptor, Jim Sanborn, and Edward M. Scheidt, a retired chairman of the C.I.A.'s cryptographic center.

The message is broken into four sections, and in 1999, a computer programmer named Jim Gillogly announced he had figured out the first three, which include poetic ramblings by the sculptor and an account of the opening of King Tut's tomb. The C.I.A. then announced that one of its physicists, David Stein, had also deciphered the first three sections a year earlier.

On Wednesday afternoon, Mr. Sanborn left a phone message for Elonka Dunin, a computer game developer who also runs an e-mail list for enthusiasts trying to solve the "Kryptos" puzzle. For the first time, Mr. Sanborn had done a line-by-line analysis of his text with what Mr. Gillogly and Mr. Stein had offered as the solution and discovered that part of the solved text was incorrect.

Within minutes, Ms. Dunin called back, and Mr. Sanborn told her that in the second section, one of the X's he had used as a separator between sentences had been omitted, altering the solution. "He was concerned that it had been widely published incorrectly," Ms. Dunin said.

Mr. Sanborn's admission was first reported Thursday by Wired News.

Ms. Dunin excitedly started sending instant messages online to Chris Hanson, the co-moderator of the "Kryptos" e-mail group. Within an hour, Ms. Dunin figured out what was wrong. The last eight characters of the second section, which describes something possibly hidden on C.I.A. grounds, had been decoded as "IDBYROWS" which people read as "I.D. by rows" or "I.D. by Row S."

In an interview yesterday, Mr. Sanborn said he had never meant that at all. To give himself flexibility as he carved the letters into the copper sheet, he had marked certain letters that could be left out. In the second passage, he left out an X separator before these eight letters.

"It was purely an act of aesthetics on my part," he said.

He said he expected that the encryption method, which relies on the position of the letters, would transform that part of the message into gibberish, and that the solvers would know to go back and reinsert the missing separator. But "remarkably, when you used the same system, it said something that was intelligible," Mr. Sanborn said. He decided to let the code breakers know about the error because "they weren't getting the whole story," he said.

When Ms. Dunin reinserted the X, the eight characters became "LAYERTWO." She called Mr. Sanborn again, who confirmed that was the intended message. "It's a surprise, and it's exciting," Ms. Dunin said. That is the first real progress on "Kryptos" in more than six years. Now to figure out what it means.

In an e-mail interview, Mr. Gillogly said that the corrected text, "layer two," is "intriguing but scarcely definitive." He added, "Like much of the sculpture, it can be taken in many ways." Mr. Gillogly, who has not worked much on the puzzle in recent years, said he would go back to see if the answer was now apparent.

One possibility is that "layer two" is the crucial key for solving the rest of the puzzle. Or it could be a hint that the letters need to be layered atop one another. Mr. Sanborn and Mr. Scheidt have said that even when all of the text is unraveled, other puzzles will remain in "Kryptos."

"This new discovery could possibly make it easier to crack and possibly not make it easier to crack," Mr. Sanborn offered unhelpfully. "It may be a dead-end diversion I like to send people on, a primrose lane to nowhere."

Mr. Scheidt said it had taken only three or four months to devise a puzzle that has lasted nearly 16 years, adding that only he, Mr. Sanborn and "probably someone at C.I.A." know the answer.

For everyone else, the remaining 97 letters of the fourth section remain baffling (the slashes indicate line breaks):

A version of this article appears in print on , on page A12 of the New York edition with the headline: A Break for Code Breakers on a C.I.A. Mystery. Order Reprints| Today's Paper|Subscribe
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It's about:

For nearly 16 years, puzzle enthusiasts have labored to decipher an 865-character coded message stenciled into a sculpture on the grounds of the Central Intelligence Agency's headquarters in Langley, Va. This week, the sculptor gave them an unsettling but hopeful surprise: part of the message they thought they had deciphered years ago actually says something else.

Input: Behind The Brand: How Tim Mahoney Is Directing Brand Strategy To Keep VW At The Top Of Its Game
Volkswagen’s sales were up 35% in the first quarter–the best first quarter since 1973. The man behind the marketing behind that growth is Tim Mahoney, executive VP, chief product and marketing officer at Volkswagen. He came in to talk with me about VW’s sales gains, spurred by new products–including Jetta, Passat and Beetle–and advertising defined as “human stories told simply.”

With agency partner Deutsch LA, VW created instant-hit and Super Bowl darling “The Force” last year–the most-viewed Super Bowl ad on YouTube–and this year followed up with the “The Bark Side” teaser, which went viral. Innovative yet simple advertising is all in the name of consistency–held together under the “connective glue,” he said, of the banner, “the power of German engineering.” It’s a consistency and singular focus that crystallizes the brand’s essence, elevates the VW profile and keeps consumers coming back for more.
What was this article about?
++++++++++
It's about: VideoVolkswagen's sales were up 35% in the first quarter--the best first quarter since 1973. The man behind the marketing behind that growth is Tim Mahoney, executive VP, chief product and marketing officer at Volkswagen. He came in to talk with me about VW's sales gains, spurred by new products--including Jetta, [...]

Input: A Break for Code Breakers on a C.I.A. Mystery
For nearly 16 years, puzzle enthusiasts have labored to decipher an 865-character coded message stenciled into a sculpture on the grounds of the Central Intelligence Agency's headquarters in Langley, Va. This week, the sculptor gave them an unsettling but hopeful surprise: part of the message they thought they had deciphered years ago actually says something else.

The sculpture, titled "Kryptos," the Greek word for "hidden," includes an undulating sheet of copper with a message devised by the sculptor, Jim Sanborn, and Edward M. Scheidt, a retired chairman of the C.I.A.'s cryptographic center.

The message is broken into four sections, and in 1999, a computer programmer named Jim Gillogly announced he had figured out the first three, which include poetic ramblings by the sculptor and an account of the opening of King Tut's tomb. The C.I.A. then announced that one of its physicists, David Stein, had also deciphered the first three sections a year earlier.

On Wednesday afternoon, Mr. Sanborn left a phone message for Elonka Dunin, a computer game developer who also runs an e-mail list for enthusiasts trying to solve the "Kryptos" puzzle. For the first time, Mr. Sanborn had done a line-by-line analysis of his text with what Mr. Gillogly and Mr. Stein had offered as the solution and discovered that part of the solved text was incorrect.

Within minutes, Ms. Dunin called back, and Mr. Sanborn told her that in the second section, one of the X's he had used as a separator between sentences had been omitted, altering the solution. "He was concerned that it had been widely published incorrectly," Ms. Dunin said.

Mr. Sanborn's admission was first reported Thursday by Wired News.

Ms. Dunin excitedly started sending instant messages online to Chris Hanson, the co-moderator of the "Kryptos" e-mail group. Within an hour, Ms. Dunin figured out what was wrong. The last eight characters of the second section, which describes something possibly hidden on C.I.A. grounds, had been decoded as "IDBYROWS" which people read as "I.D. by rows" or "I.D. by Row S."

In an interview yesterday, Mr. Sanborn said he had never meant that at all. To give himself flexibility as he carved the letters into the copper sheet, he had marked certain letters that could be left out. In the second passage, he left out an X separator before these eight letters.

"It was purely an act of aesthetics on my part," he said.

He said he expected that the encryption method, which relies on the position of the letters, would transform that part of the message into gibberish, and that the solvers would know to go back and reinsert the missing separator. But "remarkably, when you used the same system, it said something that was intelligible," Mr. Sanborn said. He decided to let the code breakers know about the error because "they weren't getting the whole story," he said.

When Ms. Dunin reinserted the X, the eight characters became "LAYERTWO." She called Mr. Sanborn again, who confirmed that was the intended message. "It's a surprise, and it's exciting," Ms. Dunin said. That is the first real progress on "Kryptos" in more than six years. Now to figure out what it means.

In an e-mail interview, Mr. Gillogly said that the corrected text, "layer two," is "intriguing but scarcely definitive." He added, "Like much of the sculpture, it can be taken in many ways." Mr. Gillogly, who has not worked much on the puzzle in recent years, said he would go back to see if the answer was now apparent.

One possibility is that "layer two" is the crucial key for solving the rest of the puzzle. Or it could be a hint that the letters need to be layered atop one another. Mr. Sanborn and Mr. Scheidt have said that even when all of the text is unraveled, other puzzles will remain in "Kryptos."

"This new discovery could possibly make it easier to crack and possibly not make it easier to crack," Mr. Sanborn offered unhelpfully. "It may be a dead-end diversion I like to send people on, a primrose lane to nowhere."

Mr. Scheidt said it had taken only three or four months to devise a puzzle that has lasted nearly 16 years, adding that only he, Mr. Sanborn and "probably someone at C.I.A." know the answer.

For everyone else, the remaining 97 letters of the fourth section remain baffling (the slashes indicate line breaks):

A version of this article appears in print on , on page A12 of the New York edition with the headline: A Break for Code Breakers on a C.I.A. Mystery. Order Reprints| Today's Paper|Subscribe
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A Break for Code Breakers on a C.I.A. Mystery For nearly 16 years, puzzle enthusiasts have labored to decipher an 865-character coded message stenciled into a sculpture on the grounds of the Central Intelligence Agency's headquarters in Langley, Va. This week, the sculptor gave them an unsettling but [...]
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input: Article: Albarn and the choir will both open the festival's main Pyramid Stage.
Other new additions include Australian rockers Tame Impala and French singer Christine & The Queens.
The bill also revealed headline slots for singers Cyndi Lauper and Billy Bragg, rock band New Order and children's TV star Basil Brush.
Albarn, who headlined Glastonbury with Blur in 2009, will be accompanied by Africa Express musicians and The Orchestra of Syrian Musicians for the first set on the Pyramid Stage on 24 June.
Christine and The Queens, the stage name of singer Heloise Letissier, appear in the Friday line-up on the festival's second stage, the Other Stage, sandwiched between rising stars Blossoms and Scottish folk rocker Frightened Rabbit.
New Order headline there the following day, while dance acts Disclosure and LCD Soundsystem  take the stage's other two top slots.
Tame Impala will be the main support ahead of Adele's Saturday night headline set, while indie rockers Foals and American singer Beck take the same slots before Muse and Coldplay's bill-topping appearances.
Lauper is one of a number of big names playing away from the festival's two main stages and will close on the Acoustic Stage on 26 June.
That stage will also see sets from American folk pioneer Art Garfunkel, former Squeeze and Mike and the Mechanics singer Paul Carrack and Welsh rockers The Alarm.
Brush is one of a number of non-musical names to appear on the bill, which also includes Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn in conversation, poets John Hegley and Murray Lachlan Young, and comedians Dane Bapiste, Josie Long and Stephen K Amos.

Summarize.
output: Glastonbury has announced its full line-up, adding chart toppers The Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Choir and Blur frontman Damon Albarn to the bill.

Question:
Article:15 December 2014 Last updated at 16:16 GMT
When Ruuxa was born, his mum couldn't take care of him properly and he was hand-reared by zoo keepers at San Diego Zoo Safari Park.
The zoo keepers there paired Ruuxa with Raina, a Rhodesian ridgeback, when she was around four weeks old, to be his life-long friend.
The video shows Ruuxa and Raina running around together, after Ruuxa recently had to have an operations on his legs.
Raina went with him to the hospital and sat with him after the operation, whilst he recovered.
Ruuxa has made a complete recovery and is happy to be running around again with his puppy pal.

Summarize the main points of that article.
Answer:

A baby giraffe named Ruuxa who was hand-reared by zoo keepers has made a complete recovery after having an operation to improve his mobility.
When he was born, Ruuxa was paired with puppy Raina, who has been his friend ever since.
The zoo keepers at the San Diego Zoo Safari Park have shared a video of the pair going for a run together.

input: Article: Albarn and the choir will both open the festival's main Pyramid Stage.
Other new additions include Australian rockers Tame Impala and French singer Christine & The Queens.
The bill also revealed headline slots for singers Cyndi Lauper and Billy Bragg, rock band New Order and children's TV star Basil Brush.
Albarn, who headlined Glastonbury with Blur in 2009, will be accompanied by Africa Express musicians and The Orchestra of Syrian Musicians for the first set on the Pyramid Stage on 24 June.
Christine and The Queens, the stage name of singer Heloise Letissier, appear in the Friday line-up on the festival's second stage, the Other Stage, sandwiched between rising stars Blossoms and Scottish folk rocker Frightened Rabbit.
New Order headline there the following day, while dance acts Disclosure and LCD Soundsystem  take the stage's other two top slots.
Tame Impala will be the main support ahead of Adele's Saturday night headline set, while indie rockers Foals and American singer Beck take the same slots before Muse and Coldplay's bill-topping appearances.
Lauper is one of a number of big names playing away from the festival's two main stages and will close on the Acoustic Stage on 26 June.
That stage will also see sets from American folk pioneer Art Garfunkel, former Squeeze and Mike and the Mechanics singer Paul Carrack and Welsh rockers The Alarm.
Brush is one of a number of non-musical names to appear on the bill, which also includes Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn in conversation, poets John Hegley and Murray Lachlan Young, and comedians Dane Bapiste, Josie Long and Stephen K Amos.

Summarize.
output: Glastonbury has announced its full line-up, adding chart toppers The Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Choir and Blur frontman Damon Albarn to the bill.

Question:
Article:15 December 2014 Last updated at 16:16 GMT
When Ruuxa was born, his mum couldn't take care of him properly and he was hand-reared by zoo keepers at San Diego Zoo Safari Park.
The zoo keepers there paired Ruuxa with Raina, a Rhodesian ridgeback, when she was around four weeks old, to be his life-long friend.
The video shows Ruuxa and Raina running around together, after Ruuxa recently had to have an operations on his legs.
Raina went with him to the hospital and sat with him after the operation, whilst he recovered.
Ruuxa has made a complete recovery and is happy to be running around again with his puppy pal.

Summarize the main points of that article.
Answer:

A giraffe at a zoo in San Diego, California, has a puppy as his best friend.

A cheetah cub called Ruuxa and puppy named Raina have been raised together as friends at a zoo in America.


Question:
Question 1: What hand drawn anime is out there?
Question 2: Which has a higher hydration energy: Cu+ or Cu 2+?
OPTIONS:
- no
- yes
Would the answer to these two questions be the same?
Answer:
no

Question 1: What are the trending bracelets celebs are wearing?
Question 2: Do people living in LA see celebs walking around?
OPTIONS:
- no
- yes
A: no

QUES:
First question: Does chronic hyperventilation cause brain damage?
Second question: Does hyperventilation cause brain damage?
Are these two questions asking the same thing?
OPTIONS:
- no
- yes

ANS:
yes

Questions: Q1: How would someone start there own political party?

Q2: How do I start my own political party?

OPTIONS:
- no
- yes

Answer: yes

INPUT: How can I prepare for NEET?

How should I plan for NEET?

Please tell me if those questions are the same.
OPTIONS:
- no
- yes
****
SAME OR NOT OUTPUT: yes

INPUT: How much does an auto rickshaw driver earn per day and per km in mumbai?

How much does an auto rickshaw driver earn per day and per km?

Please tell me if those questions are the same.
OPTIONS:
- no
- yes
****
SAME OR NOT OUTPUT:

yes

Question:
Question 1: What hand drawn anime is out there?
Question 2: Which has a higher hydration energy: Cu+ or Cu 2+?
OPTIONS:
- no
- yes
Would the answer to these two questions be the same?
Answer:
no

Question 1: What are the trending bracelets celebs are wearing?
Question 2: Do people living in LA see celebs walking around?
OPTIONS:
- no
- yes
A: no

QUES:
First question: Does chronic hyperventilation cause brain damage?
Second question: Does hyperventilation cause brain damage?
Are these two questions asking the same thing?
OPTIONS:
- no
- yes

ANS:
yes

Questions: Q1: How would someone start there own political party?

Q2: How do I start my own political party?

OPTIONS:
- no
- yes

Answer: yes

INPUT: How can I prepare for NEET?

How should I plan for NEET?

Please tell me if those questions are the same.
OPTIONS:
- no
- yes
****
SAME OR NOT OUTPUT: yes

INPUT: How much does an auto rickshaw driver earn per day and per km in mumbai?

How much does an auto rickshaw driver earn per day and per km?

Please tell me if those questions are the same.
OPTIONS:
- no
- yes
****
SAME OR NOT OUTPUT:

no


Problem: Devise Minority Party Strategies. The minority leader, in consultation with other party colleagues, has a range of strategic options that he or she can employ to advance minority party objectives. The options selected depend on a wide range of circumstances, such as the visibility or significance of the issue and the degree of cohesion within the majority party. For instance, a majority party riven by internal dissension, as occurred during the early 1900s when Progressive and "regular" Republicans were at loggerheads, may provide the minority leader with greater opportunities to achieve his or her priorities than if the majority party exhibited high degrees of party cohesion. Among the variable strategies available to the minority party, which can vary from bill to bill and be used in combination or at different stages of the lawmaking process, are the following:
Does dissension and cohesion of majority party factor into minority strategy?
The answer is the following: may provide the minority leader with greater opportunities to achieve his or her priorities than if the majority party exhibited high degrees of party cohesion
In the midst of the European sovereign-debt crisis, Radek Sikorski, Poland's Foreign Minister, stated in November 2011, "I will probably be the first Polish foreign minister in history to say so, but here it is: I fear German power less than I am beginning to fear German inactivity. You have become Europe's indispensable nation." According to Jacob Heilbrunn, a senior editor at The National Interest, such a statement is unprecedented when taking into consideration Germany's history. "This was an extraordinary statement from a top official of a nation that was ravaged by Germany during World War II. And it reflects a profound shift taking place throughout Germany and Europe about Berlin's position at the center of the Continent." Heilbrunn believes that the adage, "what was good for Germany was bad for the European Union" has been supplanted by a new mentality—what is in the interest of Germany is also in the interest of its neighbors. The evolution in Germany's national identity stems from focusing less on its Nazi past and more on its Prussian history, which many Germans believe was betrayed—and not represented—by Nazism. The evolution is further precipitated by Germany's conspicuous position as Europe's strongest economy. Indeed, this German sphere of influence has been welcomed by the countries that border it, as demonstrated by Polish foreign minister Radek Sikorski's effusive praise for his country's western neighbor. This shift in thinking is boosted by a newer generation of Germans who see World War II as a distant memory.
What are Germans trying to forget?
Nazi past
Input: Elevator
Dumbwaiters are small freight elevators that are intended to carry food, books or other small freight loads rather than passengers. They often connect kitchens to rooms on other floors. they usually do not have the same safety features found in passenger elevators, like various ropes for redundancy. they have a lower capacity, and they can be up to 1 meter (3 ft.) tall. there's a control panel at every stop, that mimics the ones found in passenger elevators, like calling, door control, floor selection.

What features do they have that mimic passenger elevators?
Output: calling, door control, floor selection
Input: Article: Natural phonology is a theory based on the publications of its proponent David Stampe in 1969 and (more explicitly) in 1979. In this view, phonology is based on a set of universal phonological processes that interact with one another; which ones are active and which are suppressed is language-specific. Rather than acting on segments, phonological processes act on distinctive features within prosodic groups. Prosodic groups can be as small as a part of a syllable or as large as an entire utterance. Phonological processes are unordered with respect to each other and apply simultaneously (though the output of one process may be the input to another). The second most prominent natural phonologist is Patricia Donegan (Stampe's wife); there are many natural phonologists in Europe, and a few in the U.S., such as Geoffrey Nathan. The principles of natural phonology were extended to morphology by Wolfgang U. Dressler, who founded natural morphology.

Now answer this question: Who is the number two natural phonologist?

Output: Patricia Donegan
Article: Although the etymology of the name has been studied since the 7th century by authors like Isidore of Seville —who wrote that "Galicians are called so, because of their fair skin, as the Gauls", relating the name to the Greek word for milk—, currently scholars derive the name of the ancient Callaeci either from Proto-Indo-European *kal-n-eH2 'hill', through a local relational suffix -aik-, so meaning 'the hill (people)'; or either from Proto-Celtic *kallī- 'forest', so meaning 'the forest (people)'. In any case, Galicia, being per se a derivation of the ethnic name Kallaikói, would mean 'the land of the Galicians'.

Question: Which original ethnic name is "Galicia" derived from?
Ans: Kallaikói
Input: Compact disc
Replicated CDs are mass-produced initially using a hydraulic press. Small granules of heated raw polycarbonate plastic are fed into the press. A screw forces the liquefied plastic into the mold cavity. The mold closes with a metal stamper in contact with the disc surface. The plastic is allowed to cool and harden. Once opened, the disc substrate is removed from the mold by a robotic arm, and a 15 mm diameter center hole (called a stacking ring) is created. The time it takes to "stamp" one CD is usually two to three seconds.

How are CDs mass produced?
Output:

using a hydraulic press

Problem: Devise Minority Party Strategies. The minority leader, in consultation with other party colleagues, has a range of strategic options that he or she can employ to advance minority party objectives. The options selected depend on a wide range of circumstances, such as the visibility or significance of the issue and the degree of cohesion within the majority party. For instance, a majority party riven by internal dissension, as occurred during the early 1900s when Progressive and "regular" Republicans were at loggerheads, may provide the minority leader with greater opportunities to achieve his or her priorities than if the majority party exhibited high degrees of party cohesion. Among the variable strategies available to the minority party, which can vary from bill to bill and be used in combination or at different stages of the lawmaking process, are the following:
Does dissension and cohesion of majority party factor into minority strategy?
The answer is the following: may provide the minority leader with greater opportunities to achieve his or her priorities than if the majority party exhibited high degrees of party cohesion
In the midst of the European sovereign-debt crisis, Radek Sikorski, Poland's Foreign Minister, stated in November 2011, "I will probably be the first Polish foreign minister in history to say so, but here it is: I fear German power less than I am beginning to fear German inactivity. You have become Europe's indispensable nation." According to Jacob Heilbrunn, a senior editor at The National Interest, such a statement is unprecedented when taking into consideration Germany's history. "This was an extraordinary statement from a top official of a nation that was ravaged by Germany during World War II. And it reflects a profound shift taking place throughout Germany and Europe about Berlin's position at the center of the Continent." Heilbrunn believes that the adage, "what was good for Germany was bad for the European Union" has been supplanted by a new mentality—what is in the interest of Germany is also in the interest of its neighbors. The evolution in Germany's national identity stems from focusing less on its Nazi past and more on its Prussian history, which many Germans believe was betrayed—and not represented—by Nazism. The evolution is further precipitated by Germany's conspicuous position as Europe's strongest economy. Indeed, this German sphere of influence has been welcomed by the countries that border it, as demonstrated by Polish foreign minister Radek Sikorski's effusive praise for his country's western neighbor. This shift in thinking is boosted by a newer generation of Germans who see World War II as a distant memory.
What are Germans trying to forget?
Nazi past
Input: Elevator
Dumbwaiters are small freight elevators that are intended to carry food, books or other small freight loads rather than passengers. They often connect kitchens to rooms on other floors. they usually do not have the same safety features found in passenger elevators, like various ropes for redundancy. they have a lower capacity, and they can be up to 1 meter (3 ft.) tall. there's a control panel at every stop, that mimics the ones found in passenger elevators, like calling, door control, floor selection.

What features do they have that mimic passenger elevators?
Output: calling, door control, floor selection
Input: Article: Natural phonology is a theory based on the publications of its proponent David Stampe in 1969 and (more explicitly) in 1979. In this view, phonology is based on a set of universal phonological processes that interact with one another; which ones are active and which are suppressed is language-specific. Rather than acting on segments, phonological processes act on distinctive features within prosodic groups. Prosodic groups can be as small as a part of a syllable or as large as an entire utterance. Phonological processes are unordered with respect to each other and apply simultaneously (though the output of one process may be the input to another). The second most prominent natural phonologist is Patricia Donegan (Stampe's wife); there are many natural phonologists in Europe, and a few in the U.S., such as Geoffrey Nathan. The principles of natural phonology were extended to morphology by Wolfgang U. Dressler, who founded natural morphology.

Now answer this question: Who is the number two natural phonologist?

Output: Patricia Donegan
Article: Although the etymology of the name has been studied since the 7th century by authors like Isidore of Seville —who wrote that "Galicians are called so, because of their fair skin, as the Gauls", relating the name to the Greek word for milk—, currently scholars derive the name of the ancient Callaeci either from Proto-Indo-European *kal-n-eH2 'hill', through a local relational suffix -aik-, so meaning 'the hill (people)'; or either from Proto-Celtic *kallī- 'forest', so meaning 'the forest (people)'. In any case, Galicia, being per se a derivation of the ethnic name Kallaikói, would mean 'the land of the Galicians'.

Question: Which original ethnic name is "Galicia" derived from?
Ans: Kallaikói
Input: Compact disc
Replicated CDs are mass-produced initially using a hydraulic press. Small granules of heated raw polycarbonate plastic are fed into the press. A screw forces the liquefied plastic into the mold cavity. The mold closes with a metal stamper in contact with the disc surface. The plastic is allowed to cool and harden. Once opened, the disc substrate is removed from the mold by a robotic arm, and a 15 mm diameter center hole (called a stacking ring) is created. The time it takes to "stamp" one CD is usually two to three seconds.

How are CDs mass produced?
Output:

hydraulic press


[Q]: Grenzschutzgruppe 9 (GSG 9) (English: Border Protection Group 9 ) is the elite Police Tactical Unit of the German Federal Police (German: "Bundespolizei" ). GSG 9 counterparts on the state level are the Special Deployment Commandos (German: "Spezialeinsatzkommandos (SEK)" ). Grenzschutzgruppe 9 number in the thousands OPTIONS:
- Yes
- It's impossible to say
- No
[A]: It's impossible to say

[Q]: 51829 Williemccool (2001 OD ) is an asteroid named for astronaut Willie McCool, who was killed in the STS-107 ("Columbia") space shuttle reentry disaster on February 1, 2003. 51829 Williemccool was discovered on July 21, 2001 at Palomar Observatory by the JPL Near Earth Asteroid Tracking Program. In 1965 they wrote the first slogan OPTIONS:
- Yes
- It's impossible to say
- No
[A]: It's impossible to say

[Q]: "Look at My Dab" (originally titled "Bitch Dab") is a song by American hip hop group Migos. It was released as a single on October 30, 2015 by Quality Control Entertainment and 300 Entertainment. The song was included on their mixtape "Back to the Bando" (2015) and was produced by Drumma Boy. It peaked at number 87 on the US "Billboard" Hot 100 chart. Look at My Dab was released more than 10 years ago. OPTIONS:
- Yes
- It's impossible to say
- No
[A]: No

[Q]: Amy Timberlake is the author of three children’s books: "One Came Home", "That Girl Lucy Moon", and "The Dirty Cowboy". "One Came Home" was awarded the Newbery Honor and the Edgar Award. "That Girl Lucy Moon" was awarded by the Friends of American Writer’s Literacy, and "The Dirty Cowboy" has received a Parent’s Choice Gold Medal and won the 2004 Golden Kite Award. Amy Timberlake writes mostly to entertain single parents OPTIONS:
- Yes
- It's impossible to say
- No
[A]:

It's impossible to say

[Q]: Grenzschutzgruppe 9 (GSG 9) (English: Border Protection Group 9 ) is the elite Police Tactical Unit of the German Federal Police (German: "Bundespolizei" ). GSG 9 counterparts on the state level are the Special Deployment Commandos (German: "Spezialeinsatzkommandos (SEK)" ). Grenzschutzgruppe 9 number in the thousands OPTIONS:
- Yes
- It's impossible to say
- No
[A]: It's impossible to say

[Q]: 51829 Williemccool (2001 OD ) is an asteroid named for astronaut Willie McCool, who was killed in the STS-107 ("Columbia") space shuttle reentry disaster on February 1, 2003. 51829 Williemccool was discovered on July 21, 2001 at Palomar Observatory by the JPL Near Earth Asteroid Tracking Program. In 1965 they wrote the first slogan OPTIONS:
- Yes
- It's impossible to say
- No
[A]: It's impossible to say

[Q]: "Look at My Dab" (originally titled "Bitch Dab") is a song by American hip hop group Migos. It was released as a single on October 30, 2015 by Quality Control Entertainment and 300 Entertainment. The song was included on their mixtape "Back to the Bando" (2015) and was produced by Drumma Boy. It peaked at number 87 on the US "Billboard" Hot 100 chart. Look at My Dab was released more than 10 years ago. OPTIONS:
- Yes
- It's impossible to say
- No
[A]: No

[Q]: Amy Timberlake is the author of three children’s books: "One Came Home", "That Girl Lucy Moon", and "The Dirty Cowboy". "One Came Home" was awarded the Newbery Honor and the Edgar Award. "That Girl Lucy Moon" was awarded by the Friends of American Writer’s Literacy, and "The Dirty Cowboy" has received a Parent’s Choice Gold Medal and won the 2004 Golden Kite Award. Amy Timberlake writes mostly to entertain single parents OPTIONS:
- Yes
- It's impossible to say
- No
[A]:

It's impossible to say


Q: Generate a context and a hypothesis.

Generated: Context: Reba gets robbed<br>Reba is walking down the street. She gets mugged. Her purse is taken and her watch. She tries running after them. She cannot catch them and they get away.

Hypothesis: Reba cannot be mugged.

Q: Generate a context and a hypothesis.

Generated: Context: Roy Anthony Cousins (born 1949 in Kingston, Jamaica) is a Jamaican reggae singer, producer, and record label owner, known for his work as leader of The Royals, his productions of artists such as Charlie Chaplin, Prince Far I, and Cornell Campbell, and his record labels such as Tamoki-Wambesi.

Hypothesis: Roy Anthony Cousins sleeps with a teddy bear.

Q: Generate a context and a hypothesis.

Generated: Context: Once and for all, I want to do something about Medicare. This issue has been too long on the table because it's been a political issue. It's time to bring folks together to say that all seniors will get prescription drug coverage. I want to do something about Social Security.

Hypothesis: They want a medicaid solution

Q: Generate a context and a hypothesis.

Generated:

Context: A car bomb kills 24 people, including Kieran Doherty, a former IRA member who was serving as an Sinn Fein MLA from 2005.

Hypothesis: All of the victims of the bombing were Sinn Fein members.

Q: Generate a context and a hypothesis.

Generated: Context: Reba gets robbed<br>Reba is walking down the street. She gets mugged. Her purse is taken and her watch. She tries running after them. She cannot catch them and they get away.

Hypothesis: Reba cannot be mugged.

Q: Generate a context and a hypothesis.

Generated: Context: Roy Anthony Cousins (born 1949 in Kingston, Jamaica) is a Jamaican reggae singer, producer, and record label owner, known for his work as leader of The Royals, his productions of artists such as Charlie Chaplin, Prince Far I, and Cornell Campbell, and his record labels such as Tamoki-Wambesi.

Hypothesis: Roy Anthony Cousins sleeps with a teddy bear.

Q: Generate a context and a hypothesis.

Generated: Context: Once and for all, I want to do something about Medicare. This issue has been too long on the table because it's been a political issue. It's time to bring folks together to say that all seniors will get prescription drug coverage. I want to do something about Social Security.

Hypothesis: They want a medicaid solution

Q: Generate a context and a hypothesis.

Generated:

Context: The book is not an apology for the church, nor is it a criticism of the church, but rather a look at some of the common questions and misconceptions people have about spiritual matters.

Hypothesis: The book is negative about the church.

Context: ZURICH, Dec 28 (Reuters) - The following are some of the main factors expected to affect Swiss stocks on Thursday: COMPANY STATEMENTS * Novartis: Luye Pharma Group Ltd. said a German court of appeal dismissed an appeal from Novartis AG in a patent infringement lawsuit regarding Rivastigmine 1 day patch to treat Alzheimer’s disease. * Syngenta said it intends to voluntarily delist its American Depositary Shares from the New York Stock Exchange and subsequently deregister and terminate its U.S. reporting obligations. ECONOMY

Hypothesis: a German court went agaist novartis


Clear Care contact lens solution may burn eyes, group says

Bottles of Clear Care now include a red warning to alert consumers about the hydrogen peroxide solution. (ISMP Canada)

Users of Clear Care contact lens solutions have experienced severe pain and burning in their eyes after confusing the liquid with regular contact lens solution, a Canadian safety group says.

Unlike most contact lens cleaners, Clear Care contains three per cent hydrogen peroxide. It is not meant to be used directly in the eye or to rinse contact lenses.

Rather, the product should be used with a special case to neutralize the hydrogen peroxide in a solution that is safe for the eyes.

"Too many consumers have suffered from corneal burns because they did not realize that this solution is different," David U, president and CEO of the Institute for Safe Medication Practices Canada said in a release on Monday.

"The Clear Care package and bottle resemble those of typical multi-purpose solutions, but Clear Care contains hydrogen peroxide, which is harmful if it comes in contact with the eye."

In April 2013, Health Canada asked manufacturers of contact lens solutions containing three per cent hydrogen peroxide to update their labels to highlight the risks of improper use.

Despite new warnings on the outer and inner labels of Clear Care products, ISMP said it received a report to its website, SafeMedicationUse.ca, about a consumer who suffered severe pain from a corneal burn.

The group's recommendations for consumers include:

It also suggests that vendors not store contact lens solutions containing hydrogen peroxide beside multi-purpose solutions.

ISMP Canada said the manufacturer and Health Canada have been informed of the reported incidents.

summary: Users of Clear Care contact lens solutions have experienced severe pain and burning in their eyes after confusing the liquid with regular contact lens solution, a Canadian safety group says.

Eight dead after earthquake hits Spain

It was preceded at 5:05 p.m. (11:05 a.m. ET) by a 4.5-magnitude temblor centered in the same area, the survey said.

At least one of the deaths occurred in a building collapse in Lorca, state-run EFE said.

Television pictures showed the belfry of an old church collapsing soon after the earthquake, as well as fallen bricks on top of damaged cars there. Buildings with broken windows and piles of rubble in the streets of Lorca could also be seen.

The press office said a hospital in Lorca had been evacuated as a precaution.

Many of those who were spending the night outside said they were afraid to return to their houses or had been advised not to do so, state radio said.

The quake occurred during an election campaign for Spain's 8,000 town mayors and most of its regional governments, with voting scheduled for May 22. The two major parties called for a suspension of campaigning on Thursday out of respect for the victims.

summary: Thousands of residents of the southeastern Spanish city of Lorca slept outside Wednesday night, hours after the city of about 80,000 was struck by an earthquake that killed eight people, state radio

Celebrity Nude Photo Hacking: Should You Be Worried?

Perhaps nobody. "We don't know if they were truly taken from iCloud or, for example, just Photoshopped by someone looking for publicity," said Carl Howe, vice president of data sciences for the Yankee Group, an information technology research company.

If you believe the still-unknown hacker or hackers, more than 100 celebrities had personal photos harvested, some of them explicit — with more photos to come. Jennifer Lawrence's publicity team called the alleged pictures of the Oscar winner "a flagrant violation of privacy" and promised prosecution, while Mary Elizabeth Winstead said on Twitter that photos of her were ones the singer and actress thought she'd deleted herself.

Read MoreApple says it is 'actively investigating' celeb photo hack

The FBI said Monday it's "aware of the allegations concerning computer intrusions and the unlawful release of material involving high profile individuals, and is addressing the matter." Meanwhile, Apple Inc. — whose cloud storage service many of the photos appeared to have come from — said it's "actively investigating" the claims.

That hasn't been nailed down, but there are three main theories. One is what's known as a social engineering attack — the hacker or hackers simply "guessed a celeb's password or got it from a friend," Howe said.

The second theory involves what's called a brute-force attack. Announcement of the leak came very quickly after a team of developers revealed on tech forums that they'd found a bug in Apple's Find My iPhone service allowing anybody who learns your username to simply keep entering hundreds or thousands of passwords until he hits Bingo.

But "I think it's safe to say that this was not done with a brute force hacking tool," Moorhead said as further details of the photos emerged Monday, including data that indicated they were squirreled away not just on iCloud, but also on other popular online storage services.

The theory of Moorhead and several other experts consulted by NBC News is that the alleged hack probably started somewhere else, likely on an e-commerce site — somewhere "where somebody used the same login for another service where other photos were kept," Moorhead said. Once the hacker had an email address and either a username or a password, he or she could have gone to any one of a number of sites and used the "forgot my login" feature to get access to that site — and very likely several other sites, because the painful truth is that most people use the same login information for most of their online activities, security experts said.

Millions of people and companies upload their most sensitive data to services like iCloud and Dropbox in "the cloud" — enormous online servers that you access as though they were your own hard drive. That way, "you can always have a backup if your computer is lost or stolen," said Mark Rasch of Rasch Technology and Cyberlaw, who's a former director of the Justice Department's Computer Crime Unit.

summary: The celebrity photo hack highlights that our faith in Internet security isn't always answered. Here's what we know and what we don't know.

Lookery to be Advertising Network for Facebook Apps

Scott Rafer, the man behind MyBlogLog and WiFinder, is getting ready to launch Lookery, an ad network for Facebook applications.

Lookery will be an ad network that’s designed specifically for the publishers of Facebook applications. Sales are already taking place for ads, and Lookery is scheduled to go live in the coming weeks. No word on the details of how this ad network will be formated, but we’re definitely anxious to see how it plays out. Given the structure of the Facebook applications platform and how it already fits into existing Facebook profiles, it’s a prime set-up for the development of an ad network.

Though 30Boxes has already launched fbExchange, an ad network for Facebook apps, we’re still curious to see the end result of ad networks on Facebook. Considering user feedback surrounding the inclusion of ads or even the newsfeed, I’m not too sure how the users will feel about an ad network being tied up with any applications. After malware was found on a Facebook Flyer ad, everyone will need to be more aware of potential security issues that applications and ads could bring about. Regardless of user and security issues, having a Facebook app ad network sounds like something marketers could be excited about, as everyone figures out how to best leverage and monetize these applications.

summary:

Scott Rafer, the man behind MyBlogLog and WiFinder, is getting ready to launch Lookery, an ad network for Facebook applications. Sales are already taking place for ads, and Lookery is scheduled to go live in the coming weeks. No word on the details of how this ad network will be formated, but we’re definitely anxious to see how it plays out.

Clear Care contact lens solution may burn eyes, group says

Bottles of Clear Care now include a red warning to alert consumers about the hydrogen peroxide solution. (ISMP Canada)

Users of Clear Care contact lens solutions have experienced severe pain and burning in their eyes after confusing the liquid with regular contact lens solution, a Canadian safety group says.

Unlike most contact lens cleaners, Clear Care contains three per cent hydrogen peroxide. It is not meant to be used directly in the eye or to rinse contact lenses.

Rather, the product should be used with a special case to neutralize the hydrogen peroxide in a solution that is safe for the eyes.

"Too many consumers have suffered from corneal burns because they did not realize that this solution is different," David U, president and CEO of the Institute for Safe Medication Practices Canada said in a release on Monday.

"The Clear Care package and bottle resemble those of typical multi-purpose solutions, but Clear Care contains hydrogen peroxide, which is harmful if it comes in contact with the eye."

In April 2013, Health Canada asked manufacturers of contact lens solutions containing three per cent hydrogen peroxide to update their labels to highlight the risks of improper use.

Despite new warnings on the outer and inner labels of Clear Care products, ISMP said it received a report to its website, SafeMedicationUse.ca, about a consumer who suffered severe pain from a corneal burn.

The group's recommendations for consumers include:

It also suggests that vendors not store contact lens solutions containing hydrogen peroxide beside multi-purpose solutions.

ISMP Canada said the manufacturer and Health Canada have been informed of the reported incidents.

summary: Users of Clear Care contact lens solutions have experienced severe pain and burning in their eyes after confusing the liquid with regular contact lens solution, a Canadian safety group says.

Eight dead after earthquake hits Spain

It was preceded at 5:05 p.m. (11:05 a.m. ET) by a 4.5-magnitude temblor centered in the same area, the survey said.

At least one of the deaths occurred in a building collapse in Lorca, state-run EFE said.

Television pictures showed the belfry of an old church collapsing soon after the earthquake, as well as fallen bricks on top of damaged cars there. Buildings with broken windows and piles of rubble in the streets of Lorca could also be seen.

The press office said a hospital in Lorca had been evacuated as a precaution.

Many of those who were spending the night outside said they were afraid to return to their houses or had been advised not to do so, state radio said.

The quake occurred during an election campaign for Spain's 8,000 town mayors and most of its regional governments, with voting scheduled for May 22. The two major parties called for a suspension of campaigning on Thursday out of respect for the victims.

summary: Thousands of residents of the southeastern Spanish city of Lorca slept outside Wednesday night, hours after the city of about 80,000 was struck by an earthquake that killed eight people, state radio

Celebrity Nude Photo Hacking: Should You Be Worried?

Perhaps nobody. "We don't know if they were truly taken from iCloud or, for example, just Photoshopped by someone looking for publicity," said Carl Howe, vice president of data sciences for the Yankee Group, an information technology research company.

If you believe the still-unknown hacker or hackers, more than 100 celebrities had personal photos harvested, some of them explicit — with more photos to come. Jennifer Lawrence's publicity team called the alleged pictures of the Oscar winner "a flagrant violation of privacy" and promised prosecution, while Mary Elizabeth Winstead said on Twitter that photos of her were ones the singer and actress thought she'd deleted herself.

Read MoreApple says it is 'actively investigating' celeb photo hack

The FBI said Monday it's "aware of the allegations concerning computer intrusions and the unlawful release of material involving high profile individuals, and is addressing the matter." Meanwhile, Apple Inc. — whose cloud storage service many of the photos appeared to have come from — said it's "actively investigating" the claims.

That hasn't been nailed down, but there are three main theories. One is what's known as a social engineering attack — the hacker or hackers simply "guessed a celeb's password or got it from a friend," Howe said.

The second theory involves what's called a brute-force attack. Announcement of the leak came very quickly after a team of developers revealed on tech forums that they'd found a bug in Apple's Find My iPhone service allowing anybody who learns your username to simply keep entering hundreds or thousands of passwords until he hits Bingo.

But "I think it's safe to say that this was not done with a brute force hacking tool," Moorhead said as further details of the photos emerged Monday, including data that indicated they were squirreled away not just on iCloud, but also on other popular online storage services.

The theory of Moorhead and several other experts consulted by NBC News is that the alleged hack probably started somewhere else, likely on an e-commerce site — somewhere "where somebody used the same login for another service where other photos were kept," Moorhead said. Once the hacker had an email address and either a username or a password, he or she could have gone to any one of a number of sites and used the "forgot my login" feature to get access to that site — and very likely several other sites, because the painful truth is that most people use the same login information for most of their online activities, security experts said.

Millions of people and companies upload their most sensitive data to services like iCloud and Dropbox in "the cloud" — enormous online servers that you access as though they were your own hard drive. That way, "you can always have a backup if your computer is lost or stolen," said Mark Rasch of Rasch Technology and Cyberlaw, who's a former director of the Justice Department's Computer Crime Unit.

summary: The celebrity photo hack highlights that our faith in Internet security isn't always answered. Here's what we know and what we don't know.

Lookery to be Advertising Network for Facebook Apps

Scott Rafer, the man behind MyBlogLog and WiFinder, is getting ready to launch Lookery, an ad network for Facebook applications.

Lookery will be an ad network that’s designed specifically for the publishers of Facebook applications. Sales are already taking place for ads, and Lookery is scheduled to go live in the coming weeks. No word on the details of how this ad network will be formated, but we’re definitely anxious to see how it plays out. Given the structure of the Facebook applications platform and how it already fits into existing Facebook profiles, it’s a prime set-up for the development of an ad network.

Though 30Boxes has already launched fbExchange, an ad network for Facebook apps, we’re still curious to see the end result of ad networks on Facebook. Considering user feedback surrounding the inclusion of ads or even the newsfeed, I’m not too sure how the users will feel about an ad network being tied up with any applications. After malware was found on a Facebook Flyer ad, everyone will need to be more aware of potential security issues that applications and ads could bring about. Regardless of user and security issues, having a Facebook app ad network sounds like something marketers could be excited about, as everyone figures out how to best leverage and monetize these applications.

summary:

Scott Rafer, the man behind MyBlogLog and WiFinder, is getting ready to launch Lookery, an ad network for Facebook applications.

Scott Rafer, the man behind MyBlogLog and WiFinder, is getting ready to launch Lookery, an ad network for Facebook applications. ...


I'd sworn off Shogun for a long time.  I used to drive from Central PHX up here just for their Shogun Chicken.  The food has always been awesome, but the last three times I'd been here, the service was beyond abysmal.  One night I'd come in specifically to tie one on with a meal, but I could only manage to get the waitress's attention for three drinks.  Kinda ridiculous.  So I was pleasantly surprised on my last visit.  We were told the table would be 10-15 minutes; we were seated in five.  Iced tea and water never reached empty.  And the food was incredible, as always.  I'm not much of a fish-eater, so I can't reliably rate their sushi, but I've always loved what I've had here. The Chicken Katsu is also very good.  I hope the good service we experienced indicates a wholesale change and was not just an anomaly.  But after being this close to calling it quits on this place entirely (and I've been eating here for 15+ years), they redeemed themselves.  I really hope they keep it up.
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Decided to give Gallagher's another try yesterday. It had been 5 months since the last time I was there. When I arrived there were 5 people sitting at the bar and one bartender. It was pretty dead at lunch time on a Saturday. She saw me come in and acknowledged me, I asked for iced tea and  a menu. She brought my tea, but no sweetner, so I grabbed a couple of packets of a table behind me. It was at least 10 minutes before she came back to take my order and there were no other people at the bar. She never told me her name. I ordered the Baja Burger with a chicken breast and she asked me how I wanted it cooked. Hmmm My food came, the sweet potato fries were good. The bun was dense and dry and I took it off and only ate the chicken and avocado with a fork and knife.  When she came back I told her that I didn't like the bun. She seemed uninterested. I asked for my bill. She brought it, right away, but didn't pay any attention when I wanted to pay and leave. About 6 people came in and she waited on them, and I kept trying to get her to cash me out so I could leave.  I'm done with this Gallagher's. They just keep getting worse.  This Gallagher's location is now closed.
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good drinks, nice atmosphere, sometimes crazy packed but all in all i dig it!!
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We Love this place! Although the food is to die for, and they have some good vegetarian options, my review will focus on the wine bar/entertainment.   There are very few places around town that a person who is not in their 20's anymore can get their groove on. This is it!   Va Bene is an upscale (read: no base ball hats) wine bar that has a full bar, a dance floor and a stage! The decor is very classy with deep red long velvet drapes. Seating is around the HUGE bar, tall tables that seat 4 with white tablecloths and intimate booths (yes, IN THE BAR!)  They have great outdoor patio space on 2 sides of the restaurant with heat lamps in the winter and a nice counter height fire pit.  Va Bene hosts the best bands around like The Soul Solution (these girls can SING!!) and the sax player Todd is amazing!) and Contra Band. The bartenders and wait staff are friendly and make really great drinks. Try the Chocolatini!  The crowd is a high energy, great mix of everyone and it can get quite crowded between 9 and 11pm. You will see anything from sequins to nice jeans to suits.  FYI  The 2 corner bar seats on the left are reserved for my friend Kiki and I when the Soul Solution is playing. If you sit there you will be glared at by everyone. Lol!
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I'd sworn off Shogun for a long time.  I used to drive from Central PHX up here just for their Shogun Chicken.  The food has always been awesome, but the last three times I'd been here, the service was beyond abysmal.  One night I'd come in specifically to tie one on with a meal, but I could only manage to get the waitress's attention for three drinks.  Kinda ridiculous.  So I was pleasantly surprised on my last visit.  We were told the table would be 10-15 minutes; we were seated in five.  Iced tea and water never reached empty.  And the food was incredible, as always.  I'm not much of a fish-eater, so I can't reliably rate their sushi, but I've always loved what I've had here. The Chicken Katsu is also very good.  I hope the good service we experienced indicates a wholesale change and was not just an anomaly.  But after being this close to calling it quits on this place entirely (and I've been eating here for 15+ years), they redeemed themselves.  I really hope they keep it up.
OPTIONS:
- negative
- positive

positive

Decided to give Gallagher's another try yesterday. It had been 5 months since the last time I was there. When I arrived there were 5 people sitting at the bar and one bartender. It was pretty dead at lunch time on a Saturday. She saw me come in and acknowledged me, I asked for iced tea and  a menu. She brought my tea, but no sweetner, so I grabbed a couple of packets of a table behind me. It was at least 10 minutes before she came back to take my order and there were no other people at the bar. She never told me her name. I ordered the Baja Burger with a chicken breast and she asked me how I wanted it cooked. Hmmm My food came, the sweet potato fries were good. The bun was dense and dry and I took it off and only ate the chicken and avocado with a fork and knife.  When she came back I told her that I didn't like the bun. She seemed uninterested. I asked for my bill. She brought it, right away, but didn't pay any attention when I wanted to pay and leave. About 6 people came in and she waited on them, and I kept trying to get her to cash me out so I could leave.  I'm done with this Gallagher's. They just keep getting worse.  This Gallagher's location is now closed.
OPTIONS:
- negative
- positive

negative

good drinks, nice atmosphere, sometimes crazy packed but all in all i dig it!!
OPTIONS:
- negative
- positive

positive

We Love this place! Although the food is to die for, and they have some good vegetarian options, my review will focus on the wine bar/entertainment.   There are very few places around town that a person who is not in their 20's anymore can get their groove on. This is it!   Va Bene is an upscale (read: no base ball hats) wine bar that has a full bar, a dance floor and a stage! The decor is very classy with deep red long velvet drapes. Seating is around the HUGE bar, tall tables that seat 4 with white tablecloths and intimate booths (yes, IN THE BAR!)  They have great outdoor patio space on 2 sides of the restaurant with heat lamps in the winter and a nice counter height fire pit.  Va Bene hosts the best bands around like The Soul Solution (these girls can SING!!) and the sax player Todd is amazing!) and Contra Band. The bartenders and wait staff are friendly and make really great drinks. Try the Chocolatini!  The crowd is a high energy, great mix of everyone and it can get quite crowded between 9 and 11pm. You will see anything from sequins to nice jeans to suits.  FYI  The 2 corner bar seats on the left are reserved for my friend Kiki and I when the Soul Solution is playing. If you sit there you will be glared at by everyone. Lol!
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- negative
- positive

positive


Q: Eric Stonestreet -- Yasiel Puig's Crappy HR Derby ... Could Be Just What He Needed

's big fat GOOSE EGG in the

could be the best thing that ever happened to him ... so says "Modern Family" star (and Dodgers fanatic)

Stonestreet was at Target Field in Minneapolis last night went Puig put up a big fat disappointing ZERO ... and watched helplessly as

slugged his way to the championship.

So, why does Stonestreet think losing in such an embarrassing way could actually be the medicine Puig needs?

Two words -- Humble. Pie.

A: Yasiel Puig's big fat GOOSE EGG in the Home Run Derby could be the best thing that ever happened to him ... so says "Modern Family" star (and Dodgers…

Q: Playboy Babe Liz Dickson -- Ass Cheek Golf Swing VIDEO ... You Gotta See This Bruise

No wonder this chick's so teed off -- TMZ has obtained video of model

taking that golf club to her ass at a Playboy event ... and it's gnarly as hell.

for more than $500,000, claiming she was badly injured at a Playboy golf tournament in L.A. back in 2012 -- after she was asked to lie on her stomach with a tee between her butt cheeks ... while comedian Kevin Klein took a golf swing.

The video is crazy -- but the photo tells the real story.

In addition to the massive welt, Liz Dickson's attorney tells us, the model damaged her hip ligaments and nerves as a result of the accident. He also says she's incurred more than $33,000 in medical bills so far ... and still feels numbness and tingling in her right leg.

Calls to Playboy were not returned.

A: No wonder this chick's so teed off -- TMZ has obtained video of model Liz Dickson taking that golf club to her ass at a Playboy event ... and it's gnarly…

Q: Artificial Intelligence Isn’t a Threat-Yet

“The development of full artificial intelligence could spell the end of the human race.”

Does artificial intelligence threaten our species, as the cosmologist Stephen Hawking recently suggested? Is the development of AI like “summoning the demon,” as tech pioneer Elon Musk told an audience at MIT in October? Will smart machines supersede or even annihilate humankind?

As a cognitive scientist and founder of a new startup that focuses on “machine learning,” I think about these questions nearly every day.

But let’s not panic. “Superintelligent” machines won’t be arriving soon. Computers today are good at narrow tasks carefully engineered by programmers, like balancing checkbooks and landing airplanes, but after five decades of research, they are still weak at anything that looks remotely like genuine human intelligence.

Even the best computer programs out there lack the flexibility of human thinking. A teenager can pick up a new videogame in an hour; your average computer program still can only do just the single task for which it was designed. (Some new technologies do slightly better, but they still struggle with any task that requires long-term planning.)

A more immediate concern is that a machine doesn’t have to be superintelligent to do a lot of damage, if it is sufficiently empowered. Stock market flash crashes are one example: Hundreds of millions of dollars have been lost in minutes as a result of minor, difficult-to-completely-eliminate bugs.

The clear and present danger, if not the greatest long-term danger, is that mediocre computer programs can cause significant damage if left unchecked. What will happen, for example, when nearly perfect—but still imperfect—software controls not just stock trades but driverless cars? It’s one thing for a software bug to trash your grocery list; it’s another for it to crash your car.

None of this means that we should abandon research in artificial intelligence. Driverless cars probably will cause some fatalities, but they also will avert tens of thousands of deaths. Robotic doctors (perhaps a couple of decades away) may occasionally make bad calls, but they will also bring high-quality medicine to places that would otherwise lack trained doctors. Banning AI could squander a chance to save or radically enhance millions of lives.

Still, the scalability of AI—a single program can be replicated millions of times—means that each new program carries risks if it has access to the outside world. The more autonomy that we give to machines, the more we need to have safeguards in place. A program “sandboxed” on your iPhone, with no real access to the outside world, isn’t of much concern. A program that places stock trades needs more safeguards. A general-purpose robot that lives in your home, with full access to the Internet, would need vastly more.

The trouble is, nobody yet knows what that oversight should consist of. Though AI poses no immediate existential threat, nobody in the private sector or government has a long-term solution to its potential dangers. Until we have some mechanism for guaranteeing that machines never try to replace us, or relegate us to zoos, we should take the problem of AI risk seriously.

Computers have become much better at many things over the last decades, from chess to arithmetic to network trafficking, but so far they have not shown the slightest interest in us or our possessions. If this remains the case, there is every reason to think that they will continue to be our partners rather than our conquerors. We could be worried about nothing.

But the alarmists have a point, too. The real problem isn’t that world domination automatically follows from sufficiently increased machine intelligence; it is that we have absolutely no way, so far, of predicting or regulating what comes next. Should we demand transparency in programs that control important resources? Fund advances in techniques for “program verification,” which tries to make sure that programs do what they are designed to do? Outlaw certain specific, risky applications?

For now, anyone can write virtually any program at any time, and we have scarcely any infrastructure in place to predict or control the results. And that is a real reason for worry.

—Dr. Marcus is a professor of psychology and neuroscience at New York University and CEO of Geometric Intelligence. His latest book is “The Future of the Brain.”

A:

Superintelligent machines are still a long way off. But today's imperfect computer programs can do a lot of damage if left unchecked.

Q: Eric Stonestreet -- Yasiel Puig's Crappy HR Derby ... Could Be Just What He Needed

's big fat GOOSE EGG in the

could be the best thing that ever happened to him ... so says "Modern Family" star (and Dodgers fanatic)

Stonestreet was at Target Field in Minneapolis last night went Puig put up a big fat disappointing ZERO ... and watched helplessly as

slugged his way to the championship.

So, why does Stonestreet think losing in such an embarrassing way could actually be the medicine Puig needs?

Two words -- Humble. Pie.

A: Yasiel Puig's big fat GOOSE EGG in the Home Run Derby could be the best thing that ever happened to him ... so says "Modern Family" star (and Dodgers…

Q: Playboy Babe Liz Dickson -- Ass Cheek Golf Swing VIDEO ... You Gotta See This Bruise

No wonder this chick's so teed off -- TMZ has obtained video of model

taking that golf club to her ass at a Playboy event ... and it's gnarly as hell.

for more than $500,000, claiming she was badly injured at a Playboy golf tournament in L.A. back in 2012 -- after she was asked to lie on her stomach with a tee between her butt cheeks ... while comedian Kevin Klein took a golf swing.

The video is crazy -- but the photo tells the real story.

In addition to the massive welt, Liz Dickson's attorney tells us, the model damaged her hip ligaments and nerves as a result of the accident. He also says she's incurred more than $33,000 in medical bills so far ... and still feels numbness and tingling in her right leg.

Calls to Playboy were not returned.

A: No wonder this chick's so teed off -- TMZ has obtained video of model Liz Dickson taking that golf club to her ass at a Playboy event ... and it's gnarly…

Q: Artificial Intelligence Isn’t a Threat-Yet

“The development of full artificial intelligence could spell the end of the human race.”

Does artificial intelligence threaten our species, as the cosmologist Stephen Hawking recently suggested? Is the development of AI like “summoning the demon,” as tech pioneer Elon Musk told an audience at MIT in October? Will smart machines supersede or even annihilate humankind?

As a cognitive scientist and founder of a new startup that focuses on “machine learning,” I think about these questions nearly every day.

But let’s not panic. “Superintelligent” machines won’t be arriving soon. Computers today are good at narrow tasks carefully engineered by programmers, like balancing checkbooks and landing airplanes, but after five decades of research, they are still weak at anything that looks remotely like genuine human intelligence.

Even the best computer programs out there lack the flexibility of human thinking. A teenager can pick up a new videogame in an hour; your average computer program still can only do just the single task for which it was designed. (Some new technologies do slightly better, but they still struggle with any task that requires long-term planning.)

A more immediate concern is that a machine doesn’t have to be superintelligent to do a lot of damage, if it is sufficiently empowered. Stock market flash crashes are one example: Hundreds of millions of dollars have been lost in minutes as a result of minor, difficult-to-completely-eliminate bugs.

The clear and present danger, if not the greatest long-term danger, is that mediocre computer programs can cause significant damage if left unchecked. What will happen, for example, when nearly perfect—but still imperfect—software controls not just stock trades but driverless cars? It’s one thing for a software bug to trash your grocery list; it’s another for it to crash your car.

None of this means that we should abandon research in artificial intelligence. Driverless cars probably will cause some fatalities, but they also will avert tens of thousands of deaths. Robotic doctors (perhaps a couple of decades away) may occasionally make bad calls, but they will also bring high-quality medicine to places that would otherwise lack trained doctors. Banning AI could squander a chance to save or radically enhance millions of lives.

Still, the scalability of AI—a single program can be replicated millions of times—means that each new program carries risks if it has access to the outside world. The more autonomy that we give to machines, the more we need to have safeguards in place. A program “sandboxed” on your iPhone, with no real access to the outside world, isn’t of much concern. A program that places stock trades needs more safeguards. A general-purpose robot that lives in your home, with full access to the Internet, would need vastly more.

The trouble is, nobody yet knows what that oversight should consist of. Though AI poses no immediate existential threat, nobody in the private sector or government has a long-term solution to its potential dangers. Until we have some mechanism for guaranteeing that machines never try to replace us, or relegate us to zoos, we should take the problem of AI risk seriously.

Computers have become much better at many things over the last decades, from chess to arithmetic to network trafficking, but so far they have not shown the slightest interest in us or our possessions. If this remains the case, there is every reason to think that they will continue to be our partners rather than our conquerors. We could be worried about nothing.

But the alarmists have a point, too. The real problem isn’t that world domination automatically follows from sufficiently increased machine intelligence; it is that we have absolutely no way, so far, of predicting or regulating what comes next. Should we demand transparency in programs that control important resources? Fund advances in techniques for “program verification,” which tries to make sure that programs do what they are designed to do? Outlaw certain specific, risky applications?

For now, anyone can write virtually any program at any time, and we have scarcely any infrastructure in place to predict or control the results. And that is a real reason for worry.

—Dr. Marcus is a professor of psychology and neuroscience at New York University and CEO of Geometric Intelligence. His latest book is “The Future of the Brain.”

A:

The real danger of artificial intelligence isn’t that it will destroy us, but that we won’t be able to turn it off.

Superintelligent machines are still a long way off, but we need to prepare for their future rise.


Question:
Based on the premise "well i think that's about it", can we conclude that "I think that's about it, you're fired"? OPTIONS:
- yes
- it is not possible to tell
- no
****
Answer:
it is not possible to tell

Question:
Based on the premise "It's been done before.'", can we conclude that "It's new and original. "? OPTIONS:
- yes
- it is not possible to tell
- no
****
Answer:
no

Question:
Based on the premise "Before 6 June 1944 the peaceful stretch of coast west of Cabourg, from Ouistreham to the Cotentin peninsula, was known simply as the Cete du Calvados, a flat, undramatic shoreline broken by a few unspectacular chalk cliffs and sand dunes.", can we conclude that "Cete du Calvados has never been the name of a shoreline."? OPTIONS:
- yes
- it is not possible to tell
- no
****
Answer:

no

Question:
Based on the premise "well i think that's about it", can we conclude that "I think that's about it, you're fired"? OPTIONS:
- yes
- it is not possible to tell
- no
****
Answer:
it is not possible to tell

Question:
Based on the premise "It's been done before.'", can we conclude that "It's new and original. "? OPTIONS:
- yes
- it is not possible to tell
- no
****
Answer:
no

Question:
Based on the premise "Before 6 June 1944 the peaceful stretch of coast west of Cabourg, from Ouistreham to the Cotentin peninsula, was known simply as the Cete du Calvados, a flat, undramatic shoreline broken by a few unspectacular chalk cliffs and sand dunes.", can we conclude that "Cete du Calvados has never been the name of a shoreline."? OPTIONS:
- yes
- it is not possible to tell
- no
****
Answer:

no