Tag: learning
How This AI Breakthrough with Pure Mathematics and Reinforcement Learning Could Help Predict Future Crises
How an Unsolved Math Problem Could Train AI to Predict Crises Years in Advance An artificial intelligence breakthrough uses reinforcement learning to tackle the Andrews-Curtis conjecture, solving long-standing counterexamples and hinting at tools for forecasting stock crashes, diseases and climate disasters By Deni Ellis Béchard edited by Dean Visser & Clara Moskowitz Imagine knowing that…
What Scientists on Greenland’s Ice Sheet Are Learning about Our Changing Climate
What It’s Like to Live and Work on the Greenland Ice Sheet Think: subzero temperatures, bone-rattling storms and mysteries about the future of our planet under the ice. By Jeffery DelViscio & Rachel Feltman Barbara Olg Hild, the polar bear guard, stands in the GreenDrill camp during a blizzard that lasted for two straight days.…
Summer Learning Loss Happens, but Kids Quickly Recover
The Science of ParentingMondays Summer Learning Loss Happens, but Kids Quickly Recover During the summer, kids can forget some of what they learned during the school year. They recover quickly, but here are some tips to stem the slide By Megan Kuhfeld & Simona Beattie edited by Megha Satyanarayana Cut through the claims: Get email…
How Meryl Streep Reacted After Learning Eva Longoria Is Her Cousin
Eva Longoria revealed that Meryl Streep had the sweetest reaction to finding out they’re cousins, saying that the Oscar winner quipped, “Clearly you got the beauty.” Eva Longoria has only family members in the building. The Desperate Housewives alum shared that she recently discovered she’s related to Meryl Streep while appearing on an episode of…
Update: What we’re learning about the world’s largest fish
Editor’s note: Indonesia’s Bird’s Head Seascape is home to a large population of whale sharks, the world’s largest fish and, until recently, largely a mystery to science. In 2015, Conservation International (CI) scientists made headlines by launching the world’s first successful fin-mounted satellite tagging program for whale sharks. By directly attaching a satellite tag to…
Khloe Kardashian Punched Lamar Odom After Learning of His Drug Use
Khloe Kardashian said she punched ex Lamar Odom when she found out he went back to doing drugs after his 2015 overdose: “I shattered everything in that house.” Khloe Kardashian is done keeping up with her ex-husband Lamar Odom‘s secrets. In fact, the reality star had no problem confronting him over his past substance abuse…
How Rare ‘Alice in Wonderland Syndrome’ Warps Reality
How Rare ‘Alice in Wonderland Syndrome’ Warps Reality Researchers are learning what causes Alice in Wonderland syndrome, a rare neurological condition that can appear to warp bodies, time and reality itself By Allison Parshall edited by Jeanna Bryner An illustration by John Tenniel depicts a scene in Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. When Lene was a…