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How to Set Up Your Own NAS Server for Backups and Content Streaming

WIRED

The app reads your email inbox and your meeting calendar, then gives you a short audio summary. It can help you spend less time scrolling, but of course, there are privacy drawbacks to consider.







ALocalTemporalDifferenceCodeforDistributional ReinforcementLearning

Neural Information Processing Systems

However, since this decoder effectively approximates thenth derivative of the input vector, it is very sensitive to noise. In our framework, the input is often very noisy, since it corresponds to the converging points of different learning traces. In this section we describe two linear decoders that differ from that in [35] and are more noise-resilient. A.9 and A.10 is crucial for long temporal horizons, since regularization causes the overall magnitude of the recoveredτ-space to decrease asτ increases3. Normalization amends thedecreasing magnitude problem bymaking theτ-space to sum to 1 for everyτ.



How to recover your deleted files

Popular Science

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Sinking feelings don't come much worse than when you think you delete something you really need. Many of us now have files synced to the cloud from our phones and laptops, but sometimes data can disappear from there too--maybe through a click of the wrong button or a swipe across the wrong menu option. If this happens to you, don't lose hope-most cloud storage services come with a deleted file restore function that's similar to the Recycle Bin on Windows and the Trash folder on macOS. It means that any files that you delete, deliberately or not, can be recovered without too much fuss.


Decoupled Q-Chunking

Li, Qiyang, Park, Seohong, Levine, Sergey

arXiv.org Machine Learning

Temporal-difference (TD) methods learn state and action values efficiently by bootstrapping from their own future value predictions, but such a self-bootstrapping mechanism is prone to bootstrapping bias, where the errors in the value targets accumulate across steps and result in biased value estimates. Recent work has proposed to use chunked critics, which estimate the value of short action sequences ("chunks") rather than individual actions, speeding up value backup. However, extracting policies from chunked critics is challenging: policies must output the entire action chunk open-loop, which can be sub-optimal for environments that require policy reactivity and also challenging to model especially when the chunk length grows. Our key insight is to decouple the chunk length of the critic from that of the policy, allowing the policy to operate over shorter action chunks. We propose a novel algorithm that achieves this by optimizing the policy against a distilled critic for partial action chunks, constructed by optimistically backing up from the original chunked critic to approximate the maximum value achievable when a partial action chunk is extended to a complete one. This design retains the benefits of multi-step value propagation while sidestepping both the open-loop sub-optimality and the difficulty of learning action chunking policies for long action chunks. We evaluate our method on challenging, long-horizon offline goal-conditioned tasks and show that it reliably outperforms prior methods. Code: github.com/ColinQiyangLi/dqc.