We are not just going to solve another reinforcement learning environment but going to create one from scratch.

People will be tempted to tip a self-driving car, here's why.

After decades of miniaturization, the electronic components we've relied on for computers and modern technologies are now starting to reach fundamental limits. Faced with this challenge, engineers and scientists around the ...

While the juncture of reality, causality, and probability is a familiar feature of foundational discussions concerning quantum theory, this article considers the role of consciousness and temporality...

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On Sunday 28 April 1996, Martin Bryant was awoken by his alarm at 6am. He said goodbye to his girlfriend as she left the house, ate some breakfast, and set the burglar alarm before leaving his Hobart residence, as usual. He stopped briefly to purchase a coffee in the small town of Forcett, where he asked the cashier to “boil the kettle less time.” He then drove to the nearby town of Port Arthur, originally a colonial-era convict settlement populated only by a few hundred people. It was here that Bryant would go on to use the two rifles and a shotgun stashed inside a sports bag on the passenger seat of his car to perpetrate the worst massacre in modern Australian history. By the time it was over, 35 people were dead and a further 23 were left wounded. Astoundingly, Bryant was caught alive. He was arrested fleeing a fire at the house into which he had barricaded himself during a shootout with the police. He later pled guilty to a list of charges …

China and the US have each made big mistakes. But the US failure to create widely shared prosperity at home, and its bellicosity abroad, are proving crippling. The dismal presidency of a malevolent incompetent is one result.

Worst of all, argues veteran anti-corruption campaigner, Frank Vogl, is a $500bn fund for big corporations likely to be under Mr Trump’s unsupervised control, which is contrary to the will of Congress.

A government at war with science and its own machinery is now very visible to all.

For those of us who believe in liberal democracy, these US failures hurt: they give credence to the idea that autocracy works better.

bold thinking from a guy who knows a thing or two. change to the establishment being proposed by the establishment.

"Current supervisory tools were designed to restrain banks from overextending themselves. Right now, we have the opposite problem: banks are not filling the void left by the retreat of market-based finance.

Banks should be part of the solution, not part of the problem. Now is the time to draw on the accumulated balance sheet buffers that were built while the sun was shining. To boost lending capacity further, we need a global freeze on bank dividends and share buybacks.

However, this first step may not be enough, as lenders pull in their horns and retreat from risk-taking. That’s why there needs to be a second step of enlisting the banks to lend, using central bank funding for lending schemes. Risk sharing by governments through guarantee schemes is needed to ensure that economic risks are not pushed to banks or the central bank.

A crisis in market finance needs market-based solutions. For central bank liquidity to reach the far corners of the financial system, it must directly target individuals and businesses that need it most. Otherwise, central bank actions may be just pushing on a string."

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The news from Italy suggests that 20 percent of health care workers have been infected, and several have died.

Narrow vision, data ignorance, image-conscious decision-making and truncated memory are the very elements of contagion.

Standard Action is a virtual tabletop application designed to be simple, but customizable. Standard Action features an interactive game board, live chat, dice rolls, a turn tracker, and health bars. Game masters can use dynamic lighting, custom layers, and organize maps into chapters.

This page has a series of links to websites and discussion groups about election methods

Marc Lasry, who made a fortune buying up troubled assets, told CNBC on Monday that investors who do not need returns right now should put money to work in the recent coronavirus-driven stock market slide.

"The market is definitely going to be higher at the end of the year," Lasry said on "Fast Money Halftime Report." But he said he believes there's going to be more near-term downside.

"You're never going to be able to time this thing," he said. "If you know that you don't have to sell next week, then I would absolutely be a buyer. Should you start coming into today? Absolutely."

found evidence in support of masks but only for infected cases.

"All studies selected hospital cases, except one in which the cases were people with probable SARS reported to the Department of Health in the territory of Hong Kong up to 16 May 2003."