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A population of orcas hanging out far off the coast of California have worked out the best methods for hunting their prey in open waters.With a diet consisting almost entirely of marine mammals, orcas need to maximize their hunting success to make sure that everyone gets fed. Closer to the coast where the species on which the orcas feed can be easily cornered and caught, competition can be fierce. Heading further out to sea can provide more food for those who know how to catch it. The orcas making up the transient…

“SIMA takes one step further and shows stronger generalization to new games,” he says. “The number of environments is still very small, but I think SIMA is on the right track.A New Way to PlaySIMA shows DeepMind putting a new twist on game playing agents, an AI technology the company has pioneered in the past.In 2013, before DeepMind was acquired by Google, the London-based startup showed how a technique called reinforcement learning, which involves training an algorithm with positive and negative feedback on its…

Omid Armin / Unsplash As we approach Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) in June, the rumor mill has been abuzz with claims over Apple’s future artificial intelligence (AI) plans. Well, there have just been a couple of major developments that shed some light on what Apple could eventually reveal to the world, and you might be surprised at what Apple is apparently working on. According to Bloomberg, Apple is in talks with Google to infuse its Gemini generative AI tool into Apple’s systems and has also…

Photo by Sasha Freemind on UnsplashI recently decided it was time to make a change in my life. I have been working since I was 14 years old (tell me you are from Gen X without telling me you are from Gen X) and in all of these decades I have always worked for someone else. I very much remember the dot com bust in the early 2000’s when there were plenty of tech layoffs, but it felt mild relative to what is going on today. Perceiving that company loyalty is a thing of the past along with the desire to be my own boss, I…

Remember when kids used to flip through encyclopedias to learn fun facts? Well, in today's digital age you don’t need a thick book to gain knowledge. Everything is accessible with a simple scroll. From scientific discoveries to Hollywood trivia, all the information is just a click away.Thankfully, with one such click, we reached the 'Today I Learned' subreddit: a place where over 34 million people gather to share facts about the world. So, Pandas, scroll down to explore a collection of interesting tidbits. You never…

Cyberattacks, regional conflict, weapons of mass destruction, terrorism, commercial spyware, AI, misinformation, disinformation, deepfakes and TikTok. These are just some of the top perceived threats that the United States faces, according to the U.S. government’s intelligence agency’s latest global risk assessment. The unclassified report published Monday — sanitized for public release — gave a frank annual window into the U.S. intelligence community’s collective hive mind about the threats it sees facing the U.S.…

Isn’t there something glorious about being single at the same time as your best friend? You can bond over the highs and lows of dating together And, when one of your hearts gets broken a little, you can depend on the other to give you a pep talk and perhaps take you out to dinner and remind you it’ll all be OK as long as you have your BFFL. One of the greatest Hollywood best friends has to be Matt Damon and Ben Affleck, but I just learned the timeline of love for the two actors/filmmakers really did not necessarily line…

A rundown of my coding journey and advice I wish I hadContinue reading on Towards Data Science » A rundown of my coding journey and advice I wish I hadContinue reading on Towards Data Science » FOLLOW US ON GOOGLE NEWS Read original article here Denial of responsibility! Techno Blender is an automatic aggregator of the all world’s media. In each content, the hyperlink to the primary source is specified. All trademarks belong to their rightful owners, all materials to their authors. If you are the owner of the…

The Kid LAROI races against an invisible hourglass in his documentary Kids Are Growing Up: A Story About a Kid Named Laroi, now streaming on Prime Video. Directed by Michael D. Ratner, the feature follows the 20-year-old singer and rapper as he tours the world and begins to craft his debut album, The First Time. But between the time he spends away from his home in Sydney, Australia and the friends he’s lost to both death and distance, the musician has a lot of mental anguish to sift through. Kids Are Growing Up…

So Apple it looks like Apple is making a smart ring — but should you be paying attention? After all, surely you can get the data you need from your smartwatch. I thought something similar when I first heard of smart rings: and then I tried one.The first smart ring rolled onto my desk in 2017. It was the first generation of the Oura ring, and as excited as I was to (finally) hold a smart ring in my hand, I wasn’t convinced I’d like it, let alone that it would have mainstream appeal. At that point, I’d already been…