PEN America's report found 6,870 instances of book bans in 2024 and 2025. Books bans in public schools have become a "new normal" in the U.S., escalating since 2021, according to one advocacy group.

1Department of Medical Oncology, Sun Yat-sen University Cancer Center, State Key Laboratory of Oncology in South China, Guangdong Provincial Clinical Research Center for Cancer, Sun Yat-sen University ...

President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. said the Localized Normalization Implementation (LNI) program, a major component of the 2014 Comprehensive Agreement on the Bangsamoro (CAB), is crucial in ensuring that ...

Learn the simplest explanation of layer normalization in transformers. Understand how it stabilizes training, improves convergence, and why it’s essential in deep learning models like BERT and GPT.

The old adage, "familiarity breeds contempt," rings eerily true when considering the dangers of normalizing deviance. Coined by sociologist Diane Vaughan, this phenomenon describes the gradual process ...

Abstract: Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have demonstrated exceptional effectiveness in the field of intelligent fault diagnosis. However, due to the varying working conditions of rotating ...

The world is witnessing an unconscionable silence as Israel, an occupying power, imposes a total food blockade on Gaza—an act of collective punishment against a captive civilian population. As famine ...

Normalization layers have become fundamental components of modern neural networks, significantly improving optimization by stabilizing gradient flow, reducing sensitivity to weight initialization, and ...

Transformers have revolutionized natural language processing as the foundation of large language models (LLMs), excelling in modeling long-range dependencies through self-attention mechanisms. However ...

ISTANBUL (AP) — Russian and U.S. diplomats met in Istanbul on Thursday to discuss normalizing the operation of their respective embassies after years expelling each others’ diplomats. Kremlin ...