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RDA: Reward Design Agent for Reinforcement Learning

Announce Type: new Abstract: Reinforcement learning has enabled the acquisition of impressive robotic skills, but typically requires hand-crafted reward functions that are slow to design and difficult to align with human intentions. Recent work, such as Eureka, automates reward design by using an LLM to iteratively generate and refine reward code from task descriptions. However, they rely on coarse feedback signals such as success rate, which provide little semantic insight into the learned...

Hugh Laurie proved he actually was House MD, till he apologised

There are two kinds of people in the English-speaking world. Those who haven’t watched House MD and those who know it’s never lupus. Those who think that The Pitt is a good show and those who know that if you could reason with religious people, there would be no religious people.

Human-Like Neural Nets by Catapulting

Human-like Neural Nets by Catapulting Speculative proposal to create artificial neural nets with human-like performance by high-learning-rate/regularization training of overparameterized NNs to trigger catapulting/grokking. Over-parameterization as a route to true generalization would resolve many outstanding mysteries of artificial versus natural intelligence. There are many mysteries about deep learning and human intelligence, but we could describe the biggest anomaly this way: why are...

Amanda Knox says misogyny was 'absolutely 100%' used to make her 'seem guilty' of murder

Amanda Knox says misogyny was 'absolutely 100%' used to make her 'seem guilty' of murder EXCLUSIVE: Convicted twice and acquitted twice of murder, Amanda Knox describes the miscarriage of justice against Andrew Malkinson, who was wrongly branded a rapist, as “absolutely horrifying.” Convicted twice and acquitted twice of murder, Amanda Knox describes the miscarriage of justice against Andrew Malkinson, who was wrongly branded a rapist, as “absolutely horrifying.”

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When AI Builds Itself: Our progress toward recursive self-improvement

For most of AI’s history, humans drove every step in its development cycle. But at Anthropic, we are delegating a growing share of AI development to AI systems themselves, which is speeding up our work. Taken far enough, and given enough compute, that trend points to an AI system capable of fully autonomously designing and developing its own successor.

The Onitsuka Tiger story: From an octopus-inspired sole to a Nike link

The Onitsuka Tiger story: From an octopus-inspired sole to a Nike link Onitsuka Tiger's predecessor, Onitsuka Co, was founded in post-World War II Japan and produced basketball shoes as its first athletic footwear. SINGAPORE: Japanese brand Asics announced on Wednesday (Jun 10) that it would spin off its nearly 80-year-old Onitsuka Tiger business amid a surge in demand for its retro-inspired sports shoes. The Onitsuka Tiger business will be transferred to OT Group, a wholly owned subsidiary,...

Reflective Empiricism: Bias Reflection and Introspection as a Scientific Method

arXiv:2504.12310v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: This paper introduces Reflective Empiricism, an extension of empirical science that incorporates subjective perception and consciousness processes as equally valid sources of knowledge. It views reality as an interplay of subjective experience and objective laws, comprehensible only through systematic introspection, bias reflection, and premise-based logical-explorative modeling. This approach overcomes paradigmatic blindness arising from...

Ancient DNA reveals how women helped transform prehistoric Europe

Ancient DNA reveals how women helped transform prehistoric Europe Ancient DNA reveals a surprisingly dynamic Europe, where marriage, migration, and cultural exchange reshaped populations long before recorded history. - Date: - May 30, 2026 - Source: - The Conversation - Summary: - New DNA evidence shows that Europe’s hunter-gatherers and early farmers interacted far more closely than previously thought, with women likely playing a crucial role in spreading farming across northwestern Europe....