MIT this week showcased a new model for training robots. Rather than the standard set of focused data used to teach robots new tasks, the method goes big, mimicking the massive troves of information used to train large language models (LLMs). The researchers note that imitation learning — in which …

“Two-nil is the most dangerous lead in football” is one of the game’s most familiar cliches. Known in his home country as Csaplar’s Trap, its origins are attributed to Czech football coach and football commentator Josef Csaplar. The phenomenon is more intangible than grounded in fact, relating to the horrible …

The first thing I did when I got Amazon’s new Kindle Paperwhite (2024) was to fire up my previous generation Kindle Paperwhite (2021) and try to determine how much better the new version is. While it’s been three years since the Paperwhite was last updated, E Ink e-readers just don’t …