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Robots Could Help Kids Become Better Readers, According to a New Study

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-09-20 16:00:04

Learning to read is difficult, and reading aloud is anxiety inducing for plenty of kids. From not being able to pronounce a word, to being mocked by their peers for stumbling while speaking, reading out loud can cause anxiety and make kids less likely to want to read. The University of Chicago, University of Illinois Chicago and University of Wisconsin-Madison have released a new study that shows there may be an unlikely ally that can help. Social robots may be the key in helping kids build conf

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IEEE 2881: Learning Metadata Terms (LMT) Empowers Learning in the AI Age

computer.org Laurel Tweed 2025-09-23 10:00:29

Introduction Learning Metadata Terms (LMT) is a standard that connects metadata terms in practice with the purpose of solving many use cases common to e-learning. While there are other metadata standards, they have been inadequate for keeping up with machine-readable data requirements, which modern AI needs to achieve significance. While data models attempt to be free of technical bindings, there are fundamental design decisions that relate to whether data is intended to be stored in a graph da

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This new AI voice trainer can help you learn a new language

zdnet.com Sabrina Ortiz 2025-09-24 07:00:25

MirageC/Moment via Getty Images Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways Babbel Speaks walks new speakers through language tests. The AI-powered voice trainer targets beginners. Babbel aims to go beyond language knowledge to in-practice use. While learning any aspect of a new language is hard, actually speaking it is often the most intimidating and challenging. Babbel Speak, a new AI-powered feature from language learning platform Babbel, aims to help, ta

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Robots Could Help Kids Conquer Reading Anxiety, a New Study Suggests

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-09-26 16:10:02

For many children, reading aloud can be nerve-wracking. The fear of stumbling over the text, mispronouncing words and being judged for it in front of a group of peers can spike anxiety and dampen confidence. A new study by researchers from the University of Chicago, University of Illinois Chicago and University of Wisconsin–Madison suggests a surprising ally — robots — may ease that stress. As AI sparks concerns about whether it undermines learning and the effort required to think critically, t

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NotebookLM moves one step closer to replacing your real-life tutor

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-10-04 23:54:39

Stephen Schenck / Android Authority TL;DR Google is introducing a range of new NotebookLM features to improve learning. NotebookLM gets quizzes and flashcards, along with an Explain option, to help you memorize better. It also gets multiple new formats for reports and a Learning Guide that lets you ask open-ended questions and adapts to your learning style. While AI, in general, is marketed to enhance learning, NotebookLM has proven to especially boost understanding of concepts and enhance p

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ChatGPT Glossary: 56 AI Terms Everyone Should Know

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-09 11:23:03

AI is rapidly changing the world around us. It's eliminating jobs and flooding the internet with slop. Thanks to the massive popularity of ChatGPT to Google cramming AI summaries at the top of its search results, AI is completely taking over the internet. With AI, you can get instant answers to pretty much any question. It can feel like talking to someone who has a doctoral degree in everything. But that aspect of AI chatbots is only one part of the AI landscape. Sure, having ChatGPT help do yo

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The Paradigm

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-07 11:30:19

Over the past decade, some of the most remarkable AI breakthroughs—AlphaGo, AlphaStar, AlphaFold1, VPT, OpenAI Five, ChatGPT—have all shared a common thread: they start with large-scale data gathering (self-supervised or imitation learning, or SSL) and then use reinforcement learning to refine their performance toward a specific goal. This marriage of general knowledge acquisition and focused, reward-driven specialization has emerged as a the paradigm by which we can reliably train AI systems to

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CoreWeave acquires agent-training startup OpenPipe

techcrunch.com Maxwell Zeff 2025-10-13 04:38:36

CoreWeave, which provides cloud servers to large companies training AI models, has struck an agreement to acquire OpenPipe, a 2-year-old Y Combinator-backed startup that helps enterprises develop customized AI agents with reinforcement learning, the companies announced on Wednesday. “Reinforcement learning is emerging as a pivotal force to strengthen model performance on agentic and reasoning tasks,” said Brian Venturo, Co-founder of CoreWeave, in a statement to TechCrunch. “By combining OpenPi

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Effective learning: Rules of formulating knowledge (1999)

news.ycombinator.com Jakub Jankowski 2025-10-18 06:43:37

Dr Piotr Wozniak, February, 1999 (updated) This article will help you overcome one of the greatest difficulties you will face when trying to accelerate learning: formulating knowledge The speed of learning will depend on the way you formulate the material. The same material can be learned many times faster if well formulated! The difference in speed can be stunning! The rules are listed in the order of importance. Those listed first are most often violated or bring most benefit if complied wi

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Effective learning: Twenty rules of formulating knowledge (1999)

news.ycombinator.com Jakub Jankowski 2025-10-18 11:43:37

Dr Piotr Wozniak, February, 1999 (updated) This article will help you overcome one of the greatest difficulties you will face when trying to accelerate learning: formulating knowledge The speed of learning will depend on the way you formulate the material. The same material can be learned many times faster if well formulated! The difference in speed can be stunning! The rules are listed in the order of importance. Those listed first are most often violated or bring most benefit if complied wi

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A 20-Year-Old Algorithm Can Help Us Understand Transformer Embeddings

news.ycombinator.com A Href 2025-10-15 07:08:43

Suppose we ask an LLM: “Can you tell me about Java?” What “Java” is the model thinking about? The programming language or the Indonesian island? To answer this question, we can try to understand what is going on inside the model. Specifically, we want to represent the model’s internal states in a human-interpretable way by finding the concepts that the model is thinking about. One approach to this problem is to phrase it as a dictionary learning problem, in which we try to decompose complex emb

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Computing’s Top 30: Mohamed Shehata

computer.org Laurel Tweed 2025-10-23 04:00:24

Among AI’s great promises in relation to medicine is its potential to use existing patient data—including MRIs—to identify and diagnose potential problems. Doing so has many potential benefits, including lower costs and fewer invasive patient procedures. Among the researchers making good on this promising AI potential is Mohamed Shehata. Shehata is a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Bioengineering at the University of Louisville. He’s won numerous awards for his work using machine lear

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'Machines Can't Think for You.' How Learning Is Changing in the Age of AI

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-23 15:30:02

Entering her first year of teaching as a graduate assistant at Bowling Green State University, Sydney Koeplin had more on her mind than how to relate to her students. She was worried about how to deal with generative AI. At first, Koeplin took a "hard line" against allowing students to use AI beyond basic grammar and spelling checks. (The school's curriculum dictated that it could be used conditionally, but those conditions were left to the professor to define.) After several students in her fi

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Delphi in the Age of AI

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-21 18:54:03

How do I start using Machine Learning in Windows? Machine Learning is a branch of artificial intelligence that deals with the design and development of algorithms that can learn from and make predictions on data. Machine Learning algorithms have been used in a variety of applications, such as spam detection, facial recognition, and disease diagnosis. In recent years, there has been an increasing interest in Machine Learning, due to the availability of large data sets and advances in computing p

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Google Translate's latest feature is its take on Duolingo

engadget.com Unknown 2025-10-27 03:00:35

Considering its popularity, Google Translate sure hasn't received much attention lately. However, that just changed with a big update. The latest app introduces AI-powered live translation along with new language learning tools that might give Duolingo a run for it's money. Google said it heard from users that the toughest skill to master was conversation — ie, learning to listen and speak with confidence. To that end, it's piloting a new language practice feature (on iOS or Android) targeted t

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I did 98,000 Anki reviews. Anki is already dead

news.ycombinator.com Miguel Conner 2025-11-02 10:16:54

Ibiza coast. August 2025. I went through a phase where I Anki’d every useful-seeming Japanese word I came across as well as all of the standard 2,136 kanji. I was teaching English in Japan at the time, which meant I was thinking about language learning all day. I’d arrived with no knowledge of the language and a resolve to be able to read a contemporary fiction novel on my flight home, so I felt I needed all the help I could get. That’s when I found Anki. Fig. 1: My idea of a good time. Review

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CodeSignal’s new AI tutoring app Cosmo wants to be the ‘Duolingo for job skills’

venturebeat.com Michael Nuñez 2025-11-05 02:26:57

Want smarter insights in your inbox? Sign up for our weekly newsletters to get only what matters to enterprise AI, data, and security leaders. Subscribe Now CodeSignal Inc., the San Francisco-based skills assessment platform trusted by Netflix, Meta, and Capital One, launched Cosmo on Wednesday, a mobile learning application that transforms spare minutes into career-ready skills through artificial intelligence-powered micro-courses. The app represents a strategic pivot for CodeSignal, which bu

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The End of Handwriting

news.ycombinator.com Angela Watercutter 2025-11-04 12:37:25

People often credit my good handwriting to my Catholic school education—like a nun with a ruler and a taste for corporal punishment perfected my penmanship. But that’s not why. It’s because of my mom. An engineer by trade, she can execute the kind of perfect block letters that only come with years of working on a drawing board. As a kid, I worked to mimic her print as well as her incredibly ornate cursive. I don’t practice those skills nearly enough as an adult, though: As a reporter, speed trum

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The lottery ticket hypothesis: why neural networks work

news.ycombinator.com Jamie Lord 2025-11-10 14:54:25

How AI researchers accidentally discovered that everything they thought about learning was wrong 18 Aug, 2025 The lottery ticket hypothesis explains why massive neural networks succeed despite centuries of theory predicting they should fail Five years ago, suggesting that AI researchers train neural networks with trillions of parameters would have earned you pitying looks. It violated the most fundamental rule in machine learning: make your model too large, and it becomes a glorified photocop

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Who Invented Backpropagation?

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-11 06:50:21

Efficient backpropagation (BP) is central to the ongoing Neural Network (NN) ReNNaissance and "Deep Learning." Who invented it? BP's modern version (also called the reverse mode of automatic differentiation) was first published in 1970 by Finnish master student Seppo Linnainmaa [BP1] [R7]. In 2020, we celebrated BP's half-century anniversary! A precursor of BP was published by Henry J. Kelley in 1960 [BPA]—in 2020, we celebrated its 60-year anniversary. In the 2020s, it was still easy to find

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Why we should thank pigeons for our AI breakthroughs

technologyreview.com Ben Crair 2025-11-12 12:00:00

People looking for precursors to artificial intelligence often point to science fiction by authors like Isaac Asimov or thought experiments like the Turing test. But an equally important, if surprising and less appreciated, forerunner is Skinner’s research with pigeons in the middle of the 20th century. Skinner believed that association—learning, through trial and error, to link an action with a punishment or reward—was the building block of every behavior, not just in pigeons but in all living

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The End of Handwriting

wired.com Angela Watercutter 2025-11-12 12:00:00

People often credit my good handwriting to my Catholic school education—like a nun with a ruler and a taste for corporal punishment perfected my penmanship. But that’s not why. It’s because of my mom. An engineer by trade, she can execute the kind of perfect block letters that only come with years of working on a drawing board. As a kid, I worked to mimic her print as well as her incredibly ornate cursive. I don’t practice those skills nearly enough as an adult, though: As a reporter, speed trum

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Anthropic takes on OpenAI and Google with new Claude AI features designed for students and developers

venturebeat.com Michael Nuñez 2025-11-16 02:00:18

Want smarter insights in your inbox? Sign up for our weekly newsletters to get only what matters to enterprise AI, data, and security leaders. Subscribe Now Anthropic is launching new “learning modes” for its Claude AI assistant that transform the chatbot from an answer-dispensing tool into a teaching companion, as major technology companies race to capture the rapidly growing artificial intelligence education market while addressing mounting concerns that AI undermines genuine learning. The S

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Anthropic brings Claude's learning mode to regular users and devs

engadget.com Unknown 2025-11-16 02:00:18

This past spring, Anthropic introduced learning mode, a feature that changed Claude's interaction style. When enabled, the chatbot would, following a question, try to guide the user to their own solution, instead of providing them with an answer outright. Since its introduction in April, learning mode has only been available to Claude for Education users. Now, like OpenAI did with Study Mode, Anthropic is making the tool available to everyone. Starting today, Claude.ai users will find a new opt

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What Medieval People Got Right About Learning (2019)

news.ycombinator.com Scott Young 2025-11-17 11:29:46

We tend to assume that if people today and people five hundred years ago do things differently, it’s because we’ve figured out a better way to do it. After all, we have microscopes, democracy and penicillin. People in the middle ages lit cats on fire for fun. Yet despite overwhelming progress, it’s ironically in the area of education that we may be the ones who have it backward. Apprenticeships were, for a long time, the dominant way of learning professional skills. A master agrees to show you

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Learn, Reflect, Apply, Prepare: The Four Daily Practices That Changed How I Live

news.ycombinator.com Sainath Krishnamurthy 2025-11-24 10:06:04

In a world obsessed with hacks, sprints, and overnight success, I’ve been drawn to something quieter, simpler, and, at least for me, more sustaining: a daily rhythm built around four verbs. No apps. No dashboards. Just a living experiment I return to every day: Learn. Reflect. Apply. Prepare. I haven’t mastered this. Far from it. But the more I practice, the more I notice how these four verbs gently shape my days, especially when things feel chaotic or uncertain. 1. Learn Something Every Day

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Computing’s Top 30: Guowen Xu

computer.org Laurel Tweed 2025-11-29 23:00:58

Guowen Xu’s passion for cryptography was seeded in various courses throughout his undergraduate mathematics education. It was his experience as a doctoral student, however, that was truly transformative in terms of his learning how to navigate cryptographic security’s complexities and begin shaping his research directions and career. Today, Xu is a full professor in the School of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu. Xu’s wor

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Gemini's new Guided Learning mode can quiz students and create interactive study aids

engadget.com Unknown 2025-12-02 06:17:46

Google is updating Gemini to make it a better education tool with a new feature called Guided Learning. Like similar learning-focused updates to ChatGPT and Claude, Guided Learning tries to promote understanding by breaking down problems into step-by-step instructions, follow-up questions and interactive examples, rather than simply providing an answer. Guided Learning will be available as toggle in the prompt box of Gemini as the feature rolls out. When it's toggled on, Gemini will treat quest

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Google takes on ChatGPT’s Study Mode with new ‘Guided Learning’ tool in Gemini

techcrunch.com Aisha Malik 2025-12-02 06:18:10

As the new school year approaches, Google announced on Wednesday that it’s launching a new tool called Guided Learning within Gemini. The tool sort of functions like an AI tutor, as it’s designed to help users build a deep understanding instead of just getting answers. The launch follows just over a week after OpenAI rolled out Study Mode for ChatGPT, which is also designed to go beyond simply obtaining answers to questions by actually helping users develop critical thinking skills. Both compa

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ChatGPT Glossary: 55 AI Terms Everyone Should Know

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-03 05:00:10

AI is changing the world around us. It's eliminating jobs and flooding the internet with slop. Thanks to the massive popularity of ChatGPT to Google cramming AI summaries at the top of its search results, AI is completely taking over the internet. With AI, you can get instant answers to pretty much any question. It can feel like talking to someone who has a doctoral degree in everything. But that aspect of AI chatbots is only one part of the AI landscape. Sure, having ChatGPT help do your homew

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Latest Tech News

Robots Could Help Kids Become Better Readers, According to a New Study

IEEE 2881: Learning Metadata Terms (LMT) Empowers Learning in the AI Age

This new AI voice trainer can help you learn a new language

Robots Could Help Kids Conquer Reading Anxiety, a New Study Suggests

NotebookLM moves one step closer to replacing your real-life tutor

ChatGPT Glossary: 56 AI Terms Everyone Should Know

The Paradigm

CoreWeave acquires agent-training startup OpenPipe

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Computing’s Top 30: Mohamed Shehata

'Machines Can't Think for You.' How Learning Is Changing in the Age of AI

Delphi in the Age of AI

Google Translate's latest feature is its take on Duolingo

I did 98,000 Anki reviews. Anki is already dead

CodeSignal’s new AI tutoring app Cosmo wants to be the ‘Duolingo for job skills’

The End of Handwriting

The lottery ticket hypothesis: why neural networks work

Who Invented Backpropagation?

Why we should thank pigeons for our AI breakthroughs

The End of Handwriting

Anthropic takes on OpenAI and Google with new Claude AI features designed for students and developers

Anthropic brings Claude's learning mode to regular users and devs

What Medieval People Got Right About Learning (2019)

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Gemini's new Guided Learning mode can quiz students and create interactive study aids

Google takes on ChatGPT’s Study Mode with new ‘Guided Learning’ tool in Gemini

ChatGPT Glossary: 55 AI Terms Everyone Should Know

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