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A new piano teacher app gives you live feedback, and a lifetime subscription just went on sale for 150

Mashable

Say More Mashable's Best: E-readers, robovacs, laptops, earbuds, smart home and more Look Up Switch Off Creator Playbook Mashable Voices Trending Now Mashable Selects Safety Net Versus Gift Ideas For Everyone On Your List In My Bag All Series Get real-time feedback at any skill level. Deal pricing and availability subject to change after time of publication. Skoove is a new AI-powered piano teacher that listens and helps while you play, and it's only $150 for a lifetime subscription (reg. Learning to play piano is a lot harder than it looks. You might get the basics by watching online tutorials, but if you really want to learn, it helps to have a teacher.


4 AI development skills you need, according to Andrew Ng - and what experts say he's missing

ZDNet

I wore the world's first HDR10 smart glasses TCL's new E Ink tablet beats the Remarkable and Kindle Anker's new charger is one of the most unique I've ever seen I wore the world's first HDR10 smart glasses TCL's new E Ink tablet beats the Remarkable and Kindle Anker's new charger is one of the most unique I've ever seen The rise of generative and agentic AI has dramatically changed the software-building process - and the skills required. Coursera founder Andrew Ng has listed key AI development skills. Some industry experts suggest the list is too focused on building. Engineers must also understand the business problem and risks. Is it time to think outside the box for software engineering AI skills?


You can earn your Google Al Professional Certificate for free - and I highly recommend it

ZDNet

I wore the world's first HDR10 smart glasses TCL's new E Ink tablet beats the Remarkable and Kindle Anker's new charger is one of the most unique I've ever seen I wore the world's first HDR10 smart glasses TCL's new E Ink tablet beats the Remarkable and Kindle Anker's new charger is one of the most unique I've ever seen From AI fundamentals to data analysis and app building, Google's certificate covers quite a lot. And there's a way to avoid paying anything to earn your credential. Google's course builds practical AI skills from basics to app building. The hands-on Gemini training is broad, useful, and well-built. Move fast to beat the trial clock and avoid Coursera's fee.


Taught by AI pioneers, Stanford's free online course takes you far beyond ChatGPT

ZDNet

I wore the world's first HDR10 smart glasses TCL's new E Ink tablet beats the Remarkable and Kindle Anker's new charger is one of the most unique I've ever seen I wore the world's first HDR10 smart glasses TCL's new E Ink tablet beats the Remarkable and Kindle Anker's new charger is one of the most unique I've ever seen Taught by AI pioneers, Stanford's free online course takes you far beyond ChatGPT Most AI courses teach today's tools, but this free Stanford classic by Peter Norvig and Sebastian Thrun dives into the deeper foundational ideas you need to truly understand artificial intelligence. Two Stanford AI pioneers teach this landmark course for free. The curriculum reaches far beyond LLMs and prompting. Expect 75 to 100 hours of challenging, durable lessons. Imagine for a minute that the technology that enables Star Trek transporters is suddenly real -- it's being adopted nearly universally.


Florida man will trade pizza for pythons

Popular Science

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The Business Model of Colleges Is Broken. It's About to Get Worse

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Unlocking Multimodal Mathematical Reasoning via Process Reward Model

Neural Information Processing Systems

Process Reward Models (PRMs) have shown promise in enhancing the mathematical reasoning capabilities of Large Language Models (LLMs) through Test-Time Scaling (TTS). However, their integration into multimodal reasoning remains largely unexplored. In this work, we take the first step toward unlocking the potential of PRMs in multimodal mathematical reasoning. We identify three key challenges: (i) the scarcity of high-quality reasoning data constrains the capabilities of foundation Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs), which imposes further limitations on the upper bounds of TTS and reinforcement learning (RL); (ii) a lack of automated methods for process labeling within multimodal contexts persists; (iii) the employment of process rewards in unimodal RL faces issues like reward hacking, which may extend to multimodal scenarios. To address these issues, we introduce URSA, a three-stage Unfolding multimodal pRocessSupervision Aided training framework. We first construct MMathCoT-1M, a high-quality large-scale multimodal Chain-of-Thought (CoT) reasoning dataset, to build a stronger math reasoning foundation MLLM, URSA-8B. Subsequently, we go through an automatic process to synthesize process supervision data, which emphasizes both logical correctness and perceptual consistency. We introduce DualMath-1.1M to facilitate the training of URSA-8B-RM.


NeSyPr: Neurosymbolic Proceduralization For Efficient Embodied Reasoning

Neural Information Processing Systems

We address the challenge of adopting language models (LMs) for embodied tasks in dynamic environments, where online access to large-scale inference engines or symbolic planners is constrained due to latency, connectivity, and resource limitations. To this end, we present NESYPR, a novel embodied reasoning framework that compiles knowledge via neurosymbolic proceduralization, thereby equipping LM-based agents with structured, adaptive, and timely reasoning capabilities. In NESYPR, task-specific plans are first explicitly generated by a symbolic tool leveraging its declarative knowledge. These plans are then transformed into composable procedural representations that encode the plans' implicit production rules, enabling the resulting composed procedures to be seamlessly integrated into the LM's inference process. This neurosymbolic proceduralization abstracts and generalizes multi-step symbolic structured path-finding and reasoning into single-step LM inference, akin to human knowledge compilation. It supports efficient test-time inference without relying on external symbolic guidance, making it well suited for deployment in latency-sensitive and resource-constrained physical systems. We evaluate NESYPR on the embodied benchmarks PDDLGym, VirtualHome, and ALFWorld, demonstrating its efficient reasoning capabilities over large-scale reasoning models and a symbolic planner, while using more compact LMs.


Thinking vs. Doing: Improving Agent Reasoning by Scaling Test-Time Interaction

Neural Information Processing Systems

The current paradigm of test-time scaling relies on generating long reasoning traces ("thinking" more) before producing a response. In agent problems that require interaction, this can be done by generating thinking traces before acting in the world. However, this process does not allow agents to acquire new information from the environment or adapt their behavior over time. In this work, we propose to scale test-time interaction, an untapped dimension of test-time scaling that increases the agent's interaction horizon to enable running rich behaviors such as exploration, backtracking, and dynamic re-planning within a single rollout. To demonstrate the promise of this scaling dimension, we study the domain of web agents.


Computable universal online learning

Neural Information Processing Systems

Understanding when learning is possible is a fundamental task in the theory of machine learning. However, many characterizations known from the literature deal with abstract learning as a mathematical object and ignore the crucial question: when can learning be implemented as a computer program? We address this question for universal online learning, a generalist theoretical model of online binary classification, recently characterized by Bousquet et al. (STOC 21). In this model, there is no hypothesis fixed in advance; instead, Adversary--playing the role of Nature--can change their mind as long as local consistency with the given class of hypotheses is maintained. We require Learner to achieve a finite number of mistakes while using a strategy that can be implemented as a computer program. We show that universal online learning does not imply computable universal online learning, even if the class of hypotheses is relatively easy from a computabilitytheoretic perspective. We then study the agnostic variant of computable universal online learning and provide an exact characterization of classes that are learnable in this sense. We also consider a variant of proper universal online learning and show exactly when it is possible. Together, our results give a more realistic perspective on the existing theory of online binary classification and the related problem of inductive inference.