Dear Heloise: Here’s an idea that I’ve benefited from for years. Whenever I stay in a hotel, I save the shower caps that are usually provided for free. Because I garden, I regularly track in grass ...

It’s a familiar moment in math class—students are asked to solve a problem, and some jump in confidently while others freeze, unsure where to begin. When students don’t yet have a clear mental model ...

In an exclusive interview with NBC's Tom Llamas, President Trump hints that his approach to immigration may need a "softer touch." Trump says will require voter ID for midterms regardless of Congress ...

Abstract: State-of-the-art approaches to Query-by-Example speech search are usually based on acoustic word embedding (AWE), representing variable-length speech segments with fixed-dimensional vectors ...

If you are staring at today’s NYT Strands grid and wondering where on earth the words are hiding, you are not alone. Strands has become one of the most addictive daily puzzles because it mixes simple ...

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In most enterprises, data access still feels like a locked room with SQL as the only key. Business teams depend on data engineers for every report, dashboard, or metric tweak. Even in the age of ...

Abstract: This research introduces a novel system for converting natural language text into structured SQL queries using a hybrid [22] [23] Natural Language Processing (NLP) framework. The system ...