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Tate McRae’s ‘Housewife’ Scores Second Week at No. 1 on Billboard Global Charts

Plus, first top 10s for Jamie Miller and Felipe & Rodrigo.

Billboard · EN

You can't make an omelette without breaking some urns

TL;DR In this post, we investigate two methods that aim to improve training efficiency over standard PPO for a grid world RL agent. In our experiments these methods can converge on better policies, but take roughly twice as long to do so. This project was done in the context of an ARENA 8.0 capstone project. Our code is available on GitHub . Introduction Reinforcement learning agents are trained to maximise a given reward function in their training environments. Common failure modes of the training process are reward hacking and goal misgeneralisation, roughly corresponding to outer and inner

LessWrong · EN

Design Dialects: Breaking the Rules, Not the System

"Language is not merely a set of unrelated sounds, clauses, rules, and meanings; it is a totally coherent system bound to context and behavior." — Kenneth L. Pike The web has accents. So should our design systems. Design Systems as Living Languages Design systems aren't component libraries—they’re living languages. Tokens are phonemes, components are words, patterns are phrases, layouts are sentences. The conversations we build with users become the stories our products tell. But here’s what we've forgotten: the more fluently a language is spoken, the more accents it can support without losing

A List Apart · EN