The pandemic’s effect on the economy has led the Federal Reserve to cut its benchmark interest rate to almost zero to stave off a recession. While this is great for borrowing, those with cash are less pleased. The annual percentage yield (APY) for a high-yield savings account last year was …
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Facebook researchers believe the Atari game NetHack is well-tailored to training, testing, and evaluating AI models. To this end, they today released the NetHack Learning Environment, a research tool for benchmarking the robustness and generalization of reinforcement learning agents. For decades, games have served as benchmarks for AI. But things …
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