2020年3月23日 星期一

berate, allure, leak, chromosomes



US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Friday demanded that China share more data on the novel coronavirus as Beijing angrily accused him of lying and said Washington was trying to shift blame.


Monotreme sex determination also holds its allure. In most mammals, a single set of XX chromosomes 染色體 signifies a girl, a set of XY specifies a boy. For reasons that remain mysterious, monotremes have multiple sets of sex chromosomes, four or more parading pairs of XXs and XYs, or something else altogether: a few of those extra sex chromosomes look suspiciously birdlike.

Google's Cloudy Day
Reuters - USAOK, let's go through the allure and danger of Google's cloud-computing vision. Here's what Google hopes: It will create a new model of computing in which ...

After years of neglect, America's factories are taking on afresh allure

Japan's FM learnt of radioactive leak from US sub on TV
AFP -
TOKYO (AFP) — Japanese Foreign Minister Masahiko Komura berated his department Saturday for failing to notify him of a radioactive leak from a US nuclear ...

Her first foray into the world of Shakespeare was to berate him as a misogynist in a 1985 essay but she now insists this should not be interpreted as a criticism of his works - although she admits: "I probably wouldn't have written it quite the same way if I had been writing it now.


"Waiter, there's a fly in my soup!" Rather than the standard, "Don't shout sir, everyone will want one," response, diners at a new German restaurant will just hear the smooth hum of computerized equipment.

Wannabe actors who wait on tables and sadistic customers who love to berate service staff beware: your livelihood and malicious pleasures may soon be at an end thanks to a German entrepreneur who has created a completely automated restaurant.



In recent years, many of her graduate students have gone to work at Google. However she tries to persuade undergraduates to stay in academia and not rush off to become software engineers at start-up companies.
She acknowledges that the allure of Silicon Valley riches can be seductive. “My husband still berates me for not having jumped on the Google bandwagon at the beginning,” she said. Still, she insists she does not regret her decision to stay in academia. “I like the freedom to explore the things I care about,” she said.

Pursuing the Next Level of Artificial Intelligence


allure 
noun [U]
attraction, charm or excitement:
the allure of working in television
sexual allure

berate
verb [T] FORMAL ━━ vt. 叱責する ((for)).
to criticize or speak in an angry manner to someone:
As he left the meeting, he was berated by angry demonstrators.
Doctors are often berated for being poor communicators, particularly when they have to give patients bad news.


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