Microsoft's new AI training method eliminates bloated system prompts without sacrificing model performance

Microsoft researchers have developed On-Policy Context Distillation (OPCD), a training method that permanently embeds ...
MarketWatch

College sports has a new money problem — and St. John’s may be the latest example: ‘It’s the Wild West’

Name, image and likeness (NIL) deals have flooded college sports with hundreds of millions of dollars — but universities and team general managers have been operating with little formal oversight, ...
USA Today

The NBA's tanking crisis — and why Adam Silver can’t ignore it

It’s no longer a whisper; the NBA has a brazen and embarrassing tanking problem. The Utah Jazz closed the third quarter Monday, Feb. 9 against the Miami Heat up by three. They had been dominating ...
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When 'Religion' is the problem word, the conversation can finally begin

“Come, Kalamas. Do not go upon what has been acquired by repeated hearing; nor upon tradition; nor upon rumor; nor upon what is in a scripture; nor upon surmise…” That phrase repeatedly recalled as ...
Edutopia

Student-Created Math Word Problems Help Motivate Deep Learning

During my time as a learning support math teacher, I always had a daily word problem on my board for students to work on when they first walked into my classroom. To be completely honest, this ...
WebMD

Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS)

What Is Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS)? IBS is a mix of belly discomfort or pain and trouble with bowel habits: either going more or less often than normal (diarrhea or constipation) or having a ...
IEEE

NeuFACO: Neural Focused Ant Colony Optimization for Traveling Salesman Problem

Abstract: This study presents Neural Focused Ant Colony Optimization (NeuFACO), a non-autoregressive framework for the Traveling Salesman Problem (TSP) that combines advanced reinforcement learning ...