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Genetics Spills Secrets From Neanderthals’ Lost History
...of bones and stone tools found to date, scattered from Spain and England to the Altai Mountains, and, much more recently, genomic data and inferences drawn from statistical models. But...
Moonshine Link Discovered for Pariah Symmetries
...between finite groups and modular forms is really general, much more general than we thought.” The rapid pace of recent discoveries is generating a mix of excitement, confusion and frustration,...
Clever Machines Learn How to Be Curious
...lab at Berkeley and the lead author of the recent work. But in 2016, Pathak was interested in the sparse-rewards problem for reinforcement learning. Deep-learning software, powered by reinforcement learning...
New Theory Cracks Open the Black Box of Deep Learning
...besides compression. Some AI experts see Tishby’s idea as one of many important theoretical insights about deep learning to have emerged recently. Andrew Saxe, an AI researcher and theoretical neuroscientist...
How to Win at Deep Learning
...in a recent Quanta Magazine article, “‘deep neural networks’ have learned to converse, drive cars, beat video games and Go champions, dream, paint pictures and help make scientific discoveries.” With...
Neutron-Star Collision Shakes Space-Time and Lights Up the Sky
...such as supernovas. A competing theory that has gained prominence in recent years argues that neutron-star mergers could forge the majority of these elements. According to that thinking, the crash...
Insects Conquered a Watery Realm With Just Two New Genes
...uncovered the ancestral copy of the gene (distinguished from the more recent duplicate) and nailed down the moment in evolutionary time when the duplicate appeared: at the origin of the...
How to Build a Robot That Wants to Change the World
...place,” as they write in their recent paper, “Empowerment as Replacement for the Three Laws of Robotics.” Empowerment, a concept inspired in part by cybernetics and psychology, describes an agent’s...
Solution: ‘How to Win at Deep Learning’
...the perfect ones. For more complex problems, finding the best rules may not be so easy. A recent article in The New York Times titled “Tech Giants Are Paying Huge...