Research Report
Is Antarctica's Doomsday Glacier about to COLLAPSE? Shocking study predicts Thwaites could shed 200 gigatonnes of ice per year by 2067 - with devastating consequences
Timothee Chalamet, Oscars laughing stock: All the brutal digs aimed at star after he missed out on Best Actor and'looked like he wanted to cry' A-list stars ditch formal Oscars red carpet dresses for sexy party looks - with Jeff Goldblum's wife Emilie Livingston, Heidi Klum, Amelia Gray Hamlin and Kate Hudson turning up the heat at Vanity Fair bash Teyana Taylor erupts backstage at Oscars after being'shoved' Chilling new details of dismembered Emily Pike's final hours after she was snatched in Arizona desert and man detectives now believe murdered her Dark truth about secret new filler treatment that uses tissue from DEAD PEOPLE... as doctors issue urgent warning Awful Timothee Chalamet's ego is bigger than Kylie's inflated butt... but it's so clear what's really going on here. Israel blows up Ayatollah Khamenei's personal jet amid claims his injured heir Mojtaba'has been flown to Moscow for treatment' Kate lets Diana take the spotlight: Princess skips Mother's Day post after emotional cancer message and Photoshop furore Baseball fans fume after'terrible' umpire error ends USA's controversial showdown with Dominican Republic in WBC semifinal How Oscars 2026 proved Hollywood has overdosed on Ozempic: Leading doctors name stars now at'extreme' risk... and reveal terrifying new side effects Trump warns of'very bad future' for Nato if his call for warships to police Strait of Hormuz is refused - hinting he could punish Ukraine Kim Kardashian struggles to WALK in skintight golden gown and towering'stripper heels' as she attends the Vanity Fair Oscars party Oscars presenter Kumail Nanjiani blasted for horrific Holocaust joke: 'Do not invite him back' Real reason Sean Penn skipped Oscars 2026... as disappointed fans blast his boycott'It's like he was possessed': Terrifying moment Alexander brother turned into a'monster' and raped me... and the four chilling words he said after horror attack - alleged victim claims Dubai'arrests foreign survivors of Iranian drone strike after they sent images of explosion aftermath to loved ones to prove they were safe' Is Antarctica's Doomsday Glacier about to COLLAPSE? Antarctica's Doomsday Glacier could'snowball' towards collapse, as a study shows the ice is melting faster than expected. Scientists from the University of Edinburgh predict that the glacier - whose official name is Thwaites - could shed 200 gigatonnes of ice every single year by 2067. That is more than the current ice loss of the entire Antarctic Ice Sheet, which has been losing 150 gigatonnes of ice per year for the last two decades.
- Asia > Middle East > Iran (0.34)
- Asia > Middle East > UAE > Dubai Emirate > Dubai (0.24)
- North America > United States > Arizona (0.24)
- (19 more...)
- Media > Film (1.00)
- Leisure & Entertainment (1.00)
- Information Technology (1.00)
- (6 more...)
- Information Technology > Communications > Social Media (1.00)
- Information Technology > Artificial Intelligence > Robots > Autonomous Vehicles > Drones (0.54)
Support Recovery for Orthogonal Matching Pursuit: Upper and Lower bounds
This paper studies the problem of sparse regression where the goal is to learn a sparse vector that best optimizes a given objective function. Under the assumption that the objective function satisfies restricted strong convexity (RSC), we analyze orthogonal matching pursuit (OMP), a greedy algorithm that is used heavily in applications, and obtain support recovery result as well as a tight generalization error bound for OMP. Furthermore, we obtain lower bounds for OMP, showing that both our results on support recovery and generalization error are tight up to logarithmic factors. To the best of our knowledge, these support recovery and generalization bounds are the first such matching upper and lower bounds (up to logarithmic factors) for {\em any} sparse regression algorithm under the RSC assumption.
A New Study Details How Cats Almost Always Land on Their Feet
The secret to this acrobatic skill lies in an extremely flexible part of the spine that allows cats to twist in the air and land safely. It's well established that when cats fall, they're able to land perfectly most of the time, nimbly maneuvering to right themselves before they hit the ground. Now, researchers at Japan's Yamaguchi University have advanced our understanding of this extraordinary ability, focusing on the mechanical properties of feline spines. What they found, as detailed in a recent study in the journal The Anatomical Record, is that those sure-footed landings are due in part to the fact that a cat's thoracic region is much more flexible than its lumbar region. While a cat's ability to rotate in the air without something to push again seems to defy the laws of physics, it's instead a complex righting maneuver.
- Asia > Japan (0.25)
- Asia > Middle East > UAE (0.06)
- North America > United States > California (0.05)
- (4 more...)
- Health & Medicine (0.72)
- Leisure & Entertainment > Sports > Bobsleigh (0.30)
On Learning Intrinsic Rewards for Policy Gradient Methods
In many sequential decision making tasks, it is challenging to design reward functions that help an RL agent efficiently learn behavior that is considered good by the agent designer. A number of different formulations of the reward-design problem, or close variants thereof, have been proposed in the literature. In this paper we build on the Optimal Rewards Framework of Singh et al. that defines the optimal intrinsic reward function as one that when used by an RL agent achieves behavior that optimizes the task-specifying or extrinsic reward function. Previous work in this framework has shown how good intrinsic reward functions can be learned for lookahead search based planning agents. Whether it is possible to learn intrinsic reward functions for learning agents remains an open problem. In this paper we derive a novel algorithm for learning intrinsic rewards for policy-gradient based learning agents. We compare the performance of an augmented agent that uses our algorithm to provide additive intrinsic rewards to an A2C-based policy learner (for Atari games) and a PPO-based policy learner (for Mujoco domains) with a baseline agent that uses the same policy learners but with only extrinsic rewards. Our results show improved performance on most but not all of the domains.
The world's oldest wild bird has a new grandchick
Environment Animals Wildlife Birds The world's oldest wild bird has a new grandchick Biologists have been tracking Wisdom, the roughly 75-year-old Laysan albatross, since the 1950s. Albatross chicks are getting stronger. Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is shining a light on a new member of a famous feathered family--that of the world's oldest known breeding bird, a Laysan albatross called Wisdom. The agency posted a video on social media featuring a scruffy looking hatchling seemingly yawning as it hangs out in the sand in close contact with a giant bird --presumably one of its parents.
- Europe (0.15)
- Oceania > United States > United States Minor Outlying Islands > Midway Islands (0.08)
- Pacific Ocean > North Pacific Ocean (0.05)
- (4 more...)
- North America > United States > New York > New York County > New York City (0.14)
- North America > Canada > Ontario > Toronto (0.14)
- North America > United States > Indiana > Tippecanoe County > West Lafayette (0.04)
- (7 more...)
- Research Report > New Finding (0.93)
- Overview (0.68)
- Research Report > Experimental Study (0.68)
- Law (1.00)
- Information Technology (0.93)
- Government (0.67)
- North America > United States > Michigan (0.04)
- Asia > China > Guangdong Province > Shenzhen (0.04)
Conditional Generative Moment-Matching Networks
Maximum mean discrepancy (MMD) has been successfully applied to learn deep generative models for characterizing a joint distribution of variables via kernel mean embedding. In this paper, we present conditional generative moment-matching networks (CGMMN), which learn a conditional distribution given some input variables based on a conditional maximum mean discrepancy (CMMD) criterion. The learning is performed by stochastic gradient descent with the gradient calculated by back-propagation. We evaluate CGMMN on a wide range of tasks, including predictive modeling, contextual generation, and Bayesian dark knowledge, which distills knowledge from a Bayesian model by learning a relatively small CGMMN student network. Our results demonstrate competitive performance in all the tasks.
Forget Viagra! 'Arousal training' app can help men last TWICE as long in bed, scientists say
Ground stop issued for all three Washington DC-area airports after'strong chemical smell' detected Trump hails dramatic bombing raid on'Iran's crown jewel'... but says one area deliberately SPARED: Live updates Uncomfortable truth about what happened to Rob Reiner's forgotten daughter Tracy: As she breaks cover for first time since murders... new details of secret New Mexico life Kylie Jenner's total humiliation in Hollywood: Derogatory rumor leaves her boyfriend's peers'laughing at her' behind her back Dak Prescott's crippling secret fear: Quarterback'preparing for the worst' after fiancée split... as career-ending gossip now seems inevitable Queen Camilla told her friend that Meghan Markle'brainwashed' Prince Harry, new book claims Downfall of Trump VP hopeful exiled to construction job: Filthy messages, Oval Office humiliations and the Ice Maiden who'f***ing hates his guts' What convinced Timothy Busfield's wife Melissa Gilbert that he didn't grope children: 'She would dump his a**' Mysterious'Trump' airships appearing in 100-year-old sketchbooks sparks'time traveler' theories Yellowstone fans go wild as Cole Hauser unveils spinoff series Dutton Ranch: 'Here we go!' Men admit their wildest kinks to JANA HOCKING: Some are smelly, some are truly shocking... but these are the ones women actually secretly adore Inside the sex guide electrifying conservative women: Good Christian wives purring over'explicit illustrations' that teach them the ultimate taboos Liberal MS NOW star makes prediction about Gavin Newsom's 2028 chances that will ENRAGE California governor Dolly Parton, 80, makes first public appearance in MONTHS as she admits to getting'worn out' amid health struggles Forget Viagra! 'Arousal training' app can help men last TWICE as long in bed, scientists say Forget Viagra! 'Arousal training' app can help men last TWICE as long in bed, scientists say An'arousal training' app could help men last twice as long in bed, a study has found. The Melonga App guides users through a number of therapeutic techniques, tips and exercises designed by urologists and psychologists. It is designed to help men manage arousal better and includes elements of cognitive behavioural therapy and physical exercises to improve ejaculation control without taking medicine. The at-home self-help tool could benefit men who are hesitant to seek help because they are ashamed, researchers said. And it could help the 20 to 30 per cent of men in the UK who are estimated to suffer from the issue, which is defined by ejaculating sooner than wanted during sex.
- Asia > Middle East > Iran (0.25)
- North America > United States > New Mexico (0.24)
- North America > United States > District of Columbia > Washington (0.24)
- (15 more...)
Towards Understanding Acceleration Tradeoff between Momentum and Asynchrony in Nonconvex Stochastic Optimization
Asynchronous momentum stochastic gradient descent algorithms (Async-MSGD) have been widely used in distributed machine learning, e.g., training large collaborative filtering systems and deep neural networks. Due to current technical limit, however, establishing convergence properties of Async-MSGD for these highly complicated nonoconvex problems is generally infeasible. Therefore, we propose to analyze the algorithm through a simpler but nontrivial nonconvex problems --- streaming PCA. This allows us to make progress toward understanding Aync-MSGD and gaining new insights for more general problems. Specifically, by exploiting the diffusion approximation of stochastic optimization, we establish the asymptotic rate of convergence of Async-MSGD for streaming PCA. Our results indicate a fundamental tradeoff between asynchrony and momentum: To ensure convergence and acceleration through asynchrony, we have to reduce the momentum (compared with Sync-MSGD). To the best of our knowledge, this is the first theoretical attempt on understanding Async-MSGD for distributed nonconvex stochastic optimization. Numerical experiments on both streaming PCA and training deep neural networks are provided to support our findings for Async-MSGD.