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Interviews with finance experts and young adults suggest TikTok videos about the economy and consumerism are creating a distorted view of financial well-being (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/personal-…

Moon Pies are also a mind-bending, life altering experience.
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https://press.coop/@NPR/112223465026663600

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Attached: 1 image A lot of kids got to see the last total eclipse. What they remember may surprise you Total solar eclipse chasers say that seeing the moon block out the sun, revealing the corona, is a life-changing experience. Kids, on the other hand, remember eating moon pies. #press https://www.npr.org/2024/04/06/1242665610/children-total-solar-eclipse-remember-surprising?utm_medium=JSONFeed&utm_campaign=news&utm_source=press.coop

Influence of Gameplay Duration, Hand Tracking, and Controller Based Control Methods on UX in VR
Tanja Koji\'c, Maurizio Vergari, Simon Knuth, Maximilian Warsinke, Sebastian M\"oller, Jan-Niklas Voigt-Antons
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.03337

Influence of Gameplay Duration, Hand Tracking, and Controller Based Control Methods on UX in VR
Inside-out tracking is growing popular in consumer VR, enhancing accessibility. It uses HMD camera data and neural networks for effective hand tracking. However, limited user experience studies have compared this method to traditional controllers, with no consensus on the optimal control technique. This paper investigates the impact of control methods and gaming duration on VR user experience, hypothesizing hand tracking might be preferred for short sessions and by users new to VR due to its si…

21cmSense v2: A modular, open-source 21cm sensitivity calculator
Steven G. Murray, Jonathan Pober, Matthew Kolopanis
https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.02415 https…

21cmSense v2: A modular, open-source 21cm sensitivity calculator
The 21cm line of neutral hydrogen is a powerful probe of the high-redshift universe (Cosmic Dawn and the Epoch of Reionization), with an unprecedented potential to inform us about key processes of early galaxy formation, the first stars and even cosmology and structure formation, via intensity mapping. It is the subject of a number of current and upcoming low-frequency radio experiments. This paper presents 21cmSense v2.0, which is a Python package that provides a modular framework for calculat…

Scaling Population-Based Reinforcement Learning with GPU Accelerated Simulation
Asad Ali Shahid, Yashraj Narang, Vincenzo Petrone, Enrico Ferrentino, Ankur Handa, Dieter Fox, Marco Pavone, Loris Roveda
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.03336

Scaling Population-Based Reinforcement Learning with GPU Accelerated Simulation
In recent years, deep reinforcement learning (RL) has shown its effectiveness in solving complex continuous control tasks like locomotion and dexterous manipulation. However, this comes at the cost of an enormous amount of experience required for training, exacerbated by the sensitivity of learning efficiency and the policy performance to hyperparameter selection, which often requires numerous trials of time-consuming experiments. This work introduces a Population-Based Reinforcement Learning (…

Influence of Gameplay Duration, Hand Tracking, and Controller Based Control Methods on UX in VR
Tanja Koji\'c, Maurizio Vergari, Simon Knuth, Maximilian Warsinke, Sebastian M\"oller, Jan-Niklas Voigt-Antons
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.03337

Influence of Gameplay Duration, Hand Tracking, and Controller Based Control Methods on UX in VR
Inside-out tracking is growing popular in consumer VR, enhancing accessibility. It uses HMD camera data and neural networks for effective hand tracking. However, limited user experience studies have compared this method to traditional controllers, with no consensus on the optimal control technique. This paper investigates the impact of control methods and gaming duration on VR user experience, hypothesizing hand tracking might be preferred for short sessions and by users new to VR due to its si…

As CS students experiment with AI coding tools, professors say courses need to focus less on syntax and more on problem solving, design, testing, and debugging (Rina Diane Caballar/IEEE Spectrum)
https://spectrum.ieee.org/ai-coding

AI Copilots Are Changing How Coding Is Taught

Professors are shifting away from syntax and emphasizing higher-level skills

Scaling Population-Based Reinforcement Learning with GPU Accelerated Simulation
Asad Ali Shahid, Yashraj Narang, Vincenzo Petrone, Enrico Ferrentino, Ankur Handa, Dieter Fox, Marco Pavone, Loris Roveda
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.03336

Scaling Population-Based Reinforcement Learning with GPU Accelerated Simulation
In recent years, deep reinforcement learning (RL) has shown its effectiveness in solving complex continuous control tasks like locomotion and dexterous manipulation. However, this comes at the cost of an enormous amount of experience required for training, exacerbated by the sensitivity of learning efficiency and the policy performance to hyperparameter selection, which often requires numerous trials of time-consuming experiments. This work introduces a Population-Based Reinforcement Learning (…

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Capturing Requirements for a Data Annotation Tool for Intensive Care: Experimental User-Centered Design Study
Intensive care units (ICUs) are complex and data-rich environments. Data routinely collected in the ICUs provides tremendous opportunities for machine learning, but their use comes with significant challenges. Complex problems may require additional input from humans which can be provided through a process of data annotation. Annotation is a complex, time-consuming process that requires domain expertise and technical proficiency. Existing data annotation tools fail to provide an effective solut…