Portland Public Schools is trying to close the algebra access gap. Early evidence suggests it’s working

While studying salmon populations and designing amusement parks, these students are breaking barriers to advanced math that ...
IEEE

RoboGPT: An LLM-Based Long-Term Decision-Making Embodied Agent for Instruction Following Tasks

Abstract: Robotic agents are tasked with mastering common sense and making long-term sequential decisions to execute daily tasks based on natural language instructions. Recent advancements in large ...
IEEE

DexForce: Extracting Force-Informed Actions From Kinesthetic Demonstrations for Dexterous Manipulation

Abstract: Imitation learning requires high-quality demonstrations consisting of sequences of state-action pairs. For contact-rich dexterous manipulation tasks that require dexterity, the actions in ...
The New York Times

Scams, Schemes, Ruthless Cons: The Untold Story of How Jeffrey Epstein Got Rich

For years, rumors swirled about where his wealth came from. A Times investigation reveals the truth of how a college dropout clawed his way to the pinnacle of American finance and society. Jeffrey ...
Slate

My Husband Thought It Would Be “Fun” to Try Out Something Unspeakable in Bed. I Did Not Agree to That—Especially Not Where He Did It.

It’s worth doing what you’re doing now—refusing sex and sleeping in separate rooms—while you sort out your feelings. Sometimes, it’s unfair to judge people based on their worst behavior; at other ...
WRAL

‘Not a math person’: NC wants to make math classes more relevant to students entering the real world

Proposed changes to North Carolina's math standards would shake up requirements for upperclassmen in the state’s public high schools and emphasize real-world problem-solving in all grade levels. The ...