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Tree Search Distillation for Language Models using PPO

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🔥 Check out this trending post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: 03-01-2026 · Updated 03-03-2026 Game-playing neural networks like AlphaZero achieve superhuman performance in board games by augmenting the raw policy with a test-time search harness and distilling the stronger, augmented policy back into the network. Why aren’t similar techniques used in language modelling today? The DeepSeek-R1 authors mention they found limited success with MCTS; Finbarr Timbers has an excellent post on why they may have faced this problem, namely their choice of UCT instead of pUCT. The purpose of this post is to explore…

Indian Wells: Jannik Sinner faces Daniil Medvedev in the first California final

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✨ Read this must-read post from BBC Sport 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: Sinner has won 21 of his 24 titles on hard courts, and looked at his best as he raced to victory in an hour and 23 minutes.The 24-year-old is aiming to become the third man - after Roger Federer and Novak Djokovic - to win all six ATP Masters 1000 titles on hard courts."It was a great performance - very strong from behind the pitch. I tried to shoot and I felt that was one of the keys," he said.“He has a strong serve so…

Apple Studio Display XDR review: Too much but not enough

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💥 Read this trending post from WIRED 📖 📂 **Category**: Gear,Gear / Products,Gear / Products / Computers,Gear / Reviews,Product Review 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: Compressing into darker areas is only half the equation for great HDR. You also need as much brightness and contrast as possible, and Studio Display XDR delivers at an unprecedented level.Apple says this can reach 2,000 nits of peak brightness, and when I measured it myself with my colorimeter, it maxed out at 1,905 nits in the 25 percent window. This is really impressive. Meanwhile, it can reach 1,701 nits at 49 percent and 948 nits…

Six Nations 2026: France vs England final worthy of the greatest Nations Championship ever

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🔥 Check out this trending post from BBC Sport 📖 📂 **Category**: 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: The tournament opened with Italy shocking Scotland in Rome to put Gregor Townsend under pressure.His side then recorded an emphatic win over England at Murrayfield to end their rivals' 12-match unbeaten run.The pressure then mounted on Borthwick as Ireland outplayed his side at the Allianz Stadium.While all this was happening, France had overtaken Ireland, Wales and Italy, starting a narrative that anything other than a Grand Slam would be a failure.Scotland then overcame Galthie's side, before conceding a late flurry of tries, to head…

Federal Surveillance Tech Becomes Mandatory in New Cars by 2027

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💥 Check out this awesome post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: Your next car purchase comes with an unwelcome passenger: a federal mandate requiring surveillance technology that monitors your every blink, glance, and head nod. Thanks to Section 24220 of the 2021 Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, NHTSA must finalize rules forcing all new passenger vehicles to include “advanced impaired driving prevention technology”—essentially turning your dashboard into a judgment-free zone that’s anything but judgment-free.The Technology That’s WatchingInfrared cameras and sensors create a constant biometric assessment of driver alertness and sobriety.The tech involves infrared cameras mounted…

Manchester City: Pep Guardiola’s lopsided side clings to faint title hopes

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✨ Read this insightful post from BBC Sport 📖 📂 **Category**: 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: “We made a change to make the players more dynamic, with Ryan and Jeremy [Doku] And an elephant [Foden]"But we couldn't win the match," Guardiola said in his post-match press conference."Maybe we can be more aggressive in the first half, but with the creativity, the crosses and the dribbles this season, we're struggling. The team, they've done everything, but they need to be better in the final third, and that's happened in many games this season."In response to a question about choosing Semenyu instead of…

Feeld was a dating app for freaks. Now some people call it “Normy Hell.”

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✨ Explore this awesome post from Culture Latest 📖 📂 **Category**: Culture,Culture / Digital Culture,Kink Shame 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: Isn't it just Morales? She happened to be on the dating app Feeld the night a man was arrested by ICE agents within a mile of her apartment in Brooklyn, New York.After the divorce, Morales, a 35-year-old comedian, was in the market for something completely casual. That's when I came across Paul's profile. “I did two swipes, and it took me a second to get what I was seeing,” she says. He was 32 years old, straight, and, like Morales,…

One of our favorite large TVs is $400 off

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🚀 Check out this must-read post from WIRED 📖 📂 **Category**: Gear,Gear / Products,Gear / Deals,Gear / Products / Televisions,Deal of the Day ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: On fishing To get a really huge screen for your home theater? We recently compiled a roundup of the best large TVs for anyone with a lot of wall space, and the Hisense U75QG small LED is near the top of that list. I saw the massive 85-inch version marked down to just $1,298 on Amazon, a $400 discount off the regular price.HisenseU75QG QLED (85 inch)The first thing to know about the Hisense…

Six Nations Championship 2026: England’s intrigues increase after their defeat by France

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💥 Discover this awesome post from BBC Sport 📖 📂 **Category**: 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: “England were strong, in terms of their pace, skill, intensity and physicality, and they had a real chance of winning,” former England international Matt Dawson said on BBC Radio 5 Live.“I feel for the players because they will be frustrated, but I want them to be very positive, because if they keep playing like this over the next 18 months they will compete in big tournaments and big matches, and they will win big matches.”And yet. When adrenaline levels drop, questions will also be asked.Should…

FCC’s Carr threatens TV broadcast licenses over news coverage

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🚀 Explore this trending post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: Federal Communications Commission Chairman Brendan Carr threatened broadcasters with cancellation of their licenses if they did not “correct course” on news coverage. “Broadcasters that are running hoaxes and news distortions — also known as the fake news — have a chance now to correct course before their license renewals come up,” Carr said in a social media post Saturday. “The law is clear. Broadcasters must operate in the public interest, and they will lose their licenses if they do not.” Carr posted his warning on top of…