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Osprey backpacks and camping bags hit their lowest prices of the year during Amazon Prime Day

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Amazon Prime Day is live. See the best deals HERE. PopSci editors are big fans of Osprey outdoor packs and backpacks. Almost all of them are on sale for Prime Day. We may earn revenue from the products available on this page and participate in affiliate programs.

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Save money and get crafty with these Prime Day deals on Cricut machines and supplies

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Amazon Prime Day is live. See the best deals HERE. Score a discounted Cricut vinyl cutter during Amazon Prime Day and make your own stickers, shirts, and anything else you can think of. We may earn revenue from the products available on this page and participate in affiliate programs. A Cricut machine is an addictive thing to have.


Prime Day deals on Amazon devices: Kindles, Fire TVs, and more at their lowest prices of the year

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Amazon Prime Day is live. See the best deals HERE. Amazon has almost every device in its stable substantially on sale during the Prime Big Deal Days shopping holiday. We may earn revenue from the products available on this page and participate in affiliate programs. Right now, Amazon is in the midst of its Prime Big Deal Days sale and it's really feeling itself.


Amazon is blowing out Ninja air fryers, blenders, indoor grills, and other kitchen essentials during its Prime Day sale

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Air fryers, blenders, cookware, cutlery, and more kitchen equipment is deeply discounted during Amazon's annual Prime Day sale. We may earn revenue from the products available on this page and participate in affiliate programs. Restaurant prices have ballooned in recent years, which makes eating at home a lot more practical. It's even more appealing if you have clever kitchen appliances to make your cooking as good as anything you'll find on Door Dash. Right now, Amazon is blowing out Ninja kitchen appliances for their lowest prices of the year.


Disentangling Recognition and Decision Regrets in Image-Based Reinforcement Learning

Hüyük, Alihan, Koblitz, Arndt Ryo, Mohajeri, Atefeh, Andrews, Matthew

arXiv.org Artificial Intelligence

In image-based reinforcement learning (RL), policies usually operate in two steps: first extracting lower-dimensional features from raw images (the "recognition" step), and then taking actions based on the extracted features (the "decision" step). Extracting features that are spuriously correlated with performance or irrelevant for decision-making can lead to poor generalization performance, known as observational overfitting in image-based RL. In such cases, it can be hard to quantify how much of the error can be attributed to poor feature extraction vs. poor decision-making. In order to disentangle the two sources of error, we introduce the notions of recognition regret and decision regret. Using these notions, we characterize and disambiguate the two distinct causes behind observational overfitting: over-specific representations, which include features that are not needed for optimal decision-making (leading to high decision regret), vs. under-specific representations, which only include a limited set of features that were spuriously correlated with performance during training (leading to high recognition regret). Finally, we provide illustrative examples of observational overfitting due to both over-specific and under-specific representations in maze environments as well as the Atari game Pong.


Navigating the Labyrinth: Evaluating and Enhancing LLMs' Ability to Reason About Search Problems

Borazjanizadeh, Nasim, Herzig, Roei, Darrell, Trevor, Feris, Rogerio, Karlinsky, Leonid

arXiv.org Artificial Intelligence

Recently, Large Language Models (LLMs) attained impressive performance in math and reasoning benchmarks. However, they still often struggle with logic problems and puzzles that are relatively easy for humans. To further investigate this, we introduce a new benchmark, SearchBench, containing 11 unique search problems, each equipped with automated pipelines to generate an arbitrary number of instances and analyze the feasibility, correctness, and optimality of LLM-generated solutions. We show that even the most advanced LLMs fail to solve these problems end-to-end in text, e.g., GPT4 solves only 1.4%. SearchBench problems require considering multiple pathways to the solution as well as backtracking, posing a significant challenge to auto-regressive models. Instructing LLMs to generate code that solves the problem helps, but only slightly, e.g., GPT4's performance rises to 11.7%. In this work, we show that in-context learning with A* algorithm implementations enhances performance. The full potential of this promoting approach emerges when combined with our proposed Multi-Stage-Multi-Try method, which breaks down the algorithm implementation into two stages and verifies the first stage against unit tests, raising GPT-4's performance above 57%.


Is Our Mind A Machine Learning Algorithm?

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It is no doubt that everyone has come in contact with Machine Learning (ML) algorithms, perhaps without knowing that they have or what they are, but they certainly have. For example when you are making a purchase online and some items are'suggested for you,' this is an example of ML, another example is when a dating app tries to'match' you based on previous matches you have selected or when social media platforms, such as Facebook and Instagram, show you certain sponsored content. In all these instances some form an ML algorithm is used, which a powerful tool that many corporations are now adopting to derive more value. So what is ML? ML is a type of computer algorithm which relies on a large amount of input data to make a future decision about a new data point. Basically, it is a type of algorithm that when it is fed data, it'learns' and with more and more data, it becomes better at selecting the data points which best match the'learning' data set which it was fed.