In a previous post, I suggested a memory exercise based on mentally composing a two-act play and incorporating the items one ...

Sweden plans to ban mobile phones in schools starting next academic year, prioritizing traditional learning methods to combat declining reading skills.

While Silicon Valley rattles through all the teraflops money can buy in its pursuit of artificial general intelligence, we’re going to need a stopgap phenomenon to pass the time. Reportedly coined by ...

Abstract: The cold-start issue in recommendation systems refers to the challenge of recommending items or users when minimal or no prior data is available. Meta-learning methods have emerged as a ...

Welcome to Part 4 of the ‘Most Difficult General Knowledge Test’! This isn’t your typical trivia quiz with questions like “Who theorized E=mc²?” or “What is the capital of Spain?” Instead, we’re ...

In 2024, as Anthropic suggested at the time, the feature wasn’t really ready for productive use — it was genuinely crazy to watch work but also slow, error-prone, and prone to quickly losing track of ...

As AI systems become more capable, they may internally represent concepts outside the sphere of human knowledge. This work gives an end-to-end example of unearthing machine-unique knowledge in the ...

Happy 80th anniversary, ENIAC! The Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer, the first large-scale, general-purpose, programmable electronic digital computer, helped shape our world. On 15 ...

When it comes to innovation in the computer science field, Philadelphia and the University of Pennsylvania play a huge role. Technology continues to advance rapidly. Take, for example, the CBS ...

The U.S. Federal Trade Commission has finalized an order with General Motors (GM) and its subsidiary, OnStar, settling charges that they collected and sold the location and driving data of millions of ...

Anthropic’s agentic tool Claude Code has been an enormous hit with some software developers and hobbyists, and now the company is bringing that modality to more general office work with a new feature ...