The other day, I asked one of my friends, a paralegal at a large law firm, about his work life. He replied in one sentence: “Let’s just say I would be better off juggling three flaming torches while ...

Richard Fontaine and Vance Serchuk consider the different historical examples that policymakers and politicians cite in their foreign policy arguments: In their choice of historical analogy, ...

As we mentioned earlier in this series, one of the goals of these articles is to help forum members separate productive debates from flame wars. If this our goal, we have an obvious challenge: what do ...

Sometimes a complex health concept is best explained through an analogy — an easily understood comparison of two different ideas. A medical analogy can be an effective communicative tool for any ...

Humans have a good memory, but it doesn't compare to some of our animal counterparts. Indeed, birds are able to follow the same migration routes, elephants retain watering holes, and dogs retain ...

Large language models are a class of AI algorithm that relies on a high number computational nodes and an equally large number of connections among them. They can be trained to perform a variety of ...