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By the end of this year, Adobe will stop maintaining Flash Player. Flash has dominated the tech market in the 2000s, providing the environment to launch games and view multimedia files. However, failing to catch up with the changes in the industry, by the 2010s, Adobe's product started becoming the
Analysis
Duman Kuandyk Senior Staff Reporter
2020.12.14 13:56
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When GoldLink, a prominent hip-hop artist, came to record a live performance of his song at the COLORS studio in Berlin in 2016, he thought he had come to the wrong place. Later, he told TIME that the place was “so danky and small… It was in this weird, sketchy building — you didn’t know if you were
Analysis
Duman Kuandyk Senior Staff Reporter
2020.11.20 22:36
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Two months after the disputed presidential elections in Belarus, people are demanding the resignation of the current head of state Alexander Lukashenko. Experts already consider the protests the largest ever recorded in the history of Belarus. Lukashenko is trying to suppress the protests by using r
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Duman Kuandyk Senior Staff Reporter
2020.10.18 02:18
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In November 2016, the day after the United States presidential election, workers at the Department of Energy were in a hurry. They waited for the new president’s men in the corridors of a faded department building in Washington. This was protocol: whoever comes to take charge of the department after
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Duman Kuandyk Senior Staff Reporter
2020.10.18 02:18
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You may not be that old yet, but you may feel old upon hearing about TikTok. Just like many other people around you, you may have only a superficial knowledge of this app — it’s just people recording short videos, often with little sense in the content. It seems like it is enough to dance or lip syn
Analysis
Duman Kuandyk Senior Staff Reporter
2020.09.25 19:46
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2019 was the year of resounding triumph for Korean cinema. The country, whose films had never won a Cannes’ Golden Palm or even been nominated for an Oscar, filled these gaps in one fell swoop — thanks to Bong Joon-Ho’s Parasite — and became known through festivals and awards like a shockwave. After
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Duman Kuandyk Senior Staff Reporter
2020.09.25 19:46
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The italicized sentences in this article were not written by me, or any human being. They were generated by GPT-2, a powerful neural network that can adapt to the style of the text, and predict what you should write next. I wanted to take some of the power and flexibility of neural networks and appl
Analysis
Duman Kuandyk Senior Staff Reporter
2020.06.23 01:47
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Two years ago during the winter break, utterly bored with life on the empty campus, I decided to do something productive. In search of something unrelated to my studies, I opened my phone and downloaded Duolingo. After a quick sign-up process, the app asked me to pick a language to learn. I spent so
Analysis
Duman Kuandyk Senior Staff Reporter
2020.05.26 21:58
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Before winter begins, bats fly into caves and other dark and secluded places to hibernate. This makes winter the best time for scientists studying bats to see how their population has changed over the year. Counting bats is not a simple task — scientists need to enter, or more often than not, crawl
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Duman Kuandyk Senior Staff Reporter
2020.04.02 21:36
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Thirty years ago, crowds of Romanians filled the Palace Square in Bucharest where Nicolae Ceaușescu, a communist dictator who ruled Romania since 1965, was going to address the nation. Ceaușescu planned to show that he still had power over the country despite massive protests against the government,
Editorial
Duman Kuandyk Staff Reporter
2019.12.20 22:57
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Ciudad Juárez is a Mexican city with a population roughly equal to that of Daejeon. Located in the north of Mexico, the city is just a 40-minute drive away from El Paso, Texas. This makes Juárez the major border crossing point into the United States. Whoever controls Juárez, controls drug traffickin
Review
Duman Kuandyk Staff Reporter
2019.12.20 22:56
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It’s Friday night, and I walk out of the club searching for my friends. I usually know where they are, but several shots of tequila have hindered my ability to follow them. Wandering around Dunsan-dong, I get a message from one of my seniors: “COME QUICK TO GS25”. There are many convenience stores n
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Duman Kuandyk Staff Reporter
2019.11.27 17:13
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From the frozen pitches in Tampere, Finland to the massive old stadiums of Buenos Aires, Argentina, football leagues have special games few times every season. These are the moments when fans chant louder than usual, players cross the field at higher paces, and pressure reaches its peak. You might t
Analysis
Duman Kuandyk Staff Reporter
2019.11.20 22:23
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Though Once Upon a Time In Hollywood was released in August in many other countries, this latest film by Quentin Tarantino just came out in Korea.The film tells the story of a Hollywood actor trying to find his place in the sun. Rick Dalton, who is brilliantly played by Leonardo DiCaprio, is an old
Review
Duman Kuandyk Staff Reporter
2019.11.18 16:38
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This year’s carbon dioxide emissions have set a new record in history. Humanity’s actions have resulted in the increase of CO2 levels to 415 parts per million (ppm).
Editorial
Duman Kuandyk Head of International Division
2019.06.19 16:16
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It’s been almost a month since flames destroyed the Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris, but the heat of the fundraising discussions lingers on.
Editorial
Duman Kuandyk Head of International Division
2019.05.24 21:45
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Karl Marx once said that history repeats itself twice — the first time as a tragedy, and the second time as a farce. Looking at the current state of global politics, one can say that we are well past the second stage in the absurd play of politicians. Tired of electing the same faces from the same establishments, people turn to outsiders in a desperate attempt to witness some change. These desperate attempts sometimes lead to bizarre consequences that may be seen as a joke that went too far.
Editorial
Duman Kuandyk Head of International Division
2019.04.25 23:59
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On November 4, 2018, blue-red-green flags were waving on the streets of New Caledonia. These flags symbolized the Kanak and Socialist National Liberation Front, a movement supporting the independence of the island nation.
Editorial
Duman Kuandyk Head of International Division
2019.03.25 22:45
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It seems that the fall 2018 semester is remarkable for the international community at KAIST, as more than ninety undergraduate students were accepted, which is double the size of previous batches. I have personally experienced the influx of the new students, as the amount of paperwork to handle in the ISSS office has increased twofold.While guiding freshmen through KAIST, I noticed that there is s
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Duman Kuandyk Head of International Division
2018.09.25 20:39
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Various reports state that almost one million Muslims are detained in Chinese “re-education camps”. The majority of them are Uyghur, Kazakh, and Kyrgyz people — Turkic Muslim minorities of China. Yet it is uncommon to see a news article reporting such atrocities.
Editorial
Duman Kuandyk Head of International Division
2018.06.20 07:57