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Coal shouldn’t be in our neighbourhoods – here’s how one B.C. community fought back

Enviromental Defense

The public consensus was that the approval was rubber stamped, so in 2014 we joined forces with another group, Voters Taking Action on Climate Change to challenge the permit in court , represented by the not-for-profit environmental law firm, Ecojustice.

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Mississippi Hasn’t Got a Chance (Bless its Heart), But its Original Action Against Tennessee is Still a Case to Watch

Acoel

The case is almost a laboratory- controlled experiment, given that Mississippi requested leave to file twice, once in 2009 and again in 2014, with no material change in circumstances, and leave was granted the second time after being denied the first.

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The Turing Test 2.0

Physics World

The test also received a brief mention in The Imitation Game , the Oscar-winning 2014 biopic about Turing’s wartime code-breaking work. But then in 2014 a chatbot posing as a 13-year-old Ukrainian boy fooled the benchmark 30% of the judges. But the underlying questions of representation, reasoning and how machines think remained.

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