The authors examine human question asking where answers are K-ary. They define by hand a PCFG for a "battleship" domain, where there are hidden colored shapes in a partially observable grid (i.e., some tiles are revealed as containing part of a ship of a specific color or being empty). The task of the agent is to ask a question with a single word answer that provides as much information about the state of the board. The PCFG served as a prior over questions, which were defined as statements in lambda calculus. Question goodness was defined as a linear function of its informativeness (expected information gain), its complexity (in terms of its length or negative log probability under of it being generated by the PCFG with a uniform distribution over rewrite rules), and "answer type" (e.g., whether it provides a true/false or color as an answer).

Wentworth Institute of Technology announced it has selected Huntington Development Group (HDG) to develop a mixed-use life sciences project at 500 Huntington Avenue. Huntington Development Group is a joint venture of The Fallon Company, Owens Companies and Waldwin Development Company. "Huntington Development Group is committed to making the development of 500 Huntington a truly game-changing project for Wentworth, the neighborhood, and the broader community" "This project will play a key role in securing the university's future as a cutting-edge, hands-on center for educational opportunity, and we are thrilled to partner with Huntington Development Group to make it happen," said Wentworth President Mark A. Thompson. "This is an endeavor that will have a tremendously positive impact on our students and the surrounding community, particularly Mission Hill and Fenway, so it is important to work with a team with deep ties to and intimate knowledge of the local real estate landscape and a track record of delivering transformational projects." Plans call for an approximately 640,000 sq.-ft. The project will also feature publicly accessible open space for the community and Wentworth students, faculty and staff.

Last month, we had the chance to immerse ourselves among Charlottesville, VA's leading civic organizers, entrepreneurs, tech innovators, and futurist visionaries at the 2018 Tom Tom Founders Festival. As a co-sponsor of the Festival's Applied Machine Learning Summit, our team at Capital One wanted to do more than just talk about machine learning -- we sought to create an interactive experience showcasing a real-live example of the technology in an engaging, participatory way, while also highlighting some of the area's amazing local artists. A central theme of Tom Tom is "learn[ing] to see your world in a new way." We took inspiration from that ethos to create a pop-up art gallery that would further explore the idea of viewing the world from a new perspective, powered by a machine learning technique called style transfer. Enter our Style Transfer Gallery, where festival participants were invited to have their picture taken, which was then superimposed into the style and technique of each featured artist -- Laura Wooten, Theodore Taylor, Shannon Wright, and Brandon Robertson -- and projected among an array of digital screens.

Google has open sourced its language parsing model, SyntaxNet, calling the English version Parsey McParseface. The system understands human language with an incredible degree of accuracy, but attention has centred around its choice of name, which comes after people voted to name a science research ship Boaty McBoatface - it was in fact named after Sir David Attenborough. The open sourcing of Google's parsing model means that the broader community can employ the tool to up the game of artificial intelligence (AI). This means that machines could understand sentences from a standard database of English language journalism, the first step in their journey to take over the world. "At Google, we spend a lot of time thinking about how computer systems can read and understand human language in order to process it in intelligent ways," explained Google senior staff research scientist, Slav Petrov.