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7 Small Appliances You Don’t Need — and What to Use Instead

Photo by wavebreakmedia / Shutterstock.com Home cooks can’t help but covet a truly fancy kitchen complete with every small appliance imaginable. I’ll confess that after I’ve watched a remodeling show or browsed Bon Appétit magazine, I start dreaming of pasta arms above my stove. Or maybe I have visions of …

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Coronavirus Live Updates: Tangled Border Deals Replace Frictionless Travel

Here’s what you need to know: Major U.S. cities edge closer to normalcy. But as global infections near 6 million, cautionary tales abound. After the W.H.O. loses U.S. support, the E.U. doubles down. The U.S. Supreme Court rejects a California church’s challenge to attendance limits. A partygoer in the Memorial …

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OpenAI and Uber create Virtual Petri Dish to find the best AI model for a task

Researchers affiliated with Uber AI and OpenAI have proposed a new approach to neural architecture search (NAS), a technique that involves evaluating hundreds or thousands of AI models to identify the top performers. In a preprint paper, they claim their technique, called Synthetic Petri Dish, accelerates the most computationally intensive …

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