Two fixes turned a diverging network into a 49-game Atari player
Mnih and colleagues stabilized deep Q-learning with experience replay and a frozen target network, and the reproducibility work that followed left the honest 29-of-49 result standing while exposing how much the aggregate “human-level” label was hiding.
The daycare research settles the infection months and little else
The well-known finding that early daycare guards against later asthma does not survive the cohorts large enough to test it, and what stays firm is a two-year run of extra colds and ear infections.
Every valuation multiple hides a discounted cash flow
Coca-Cola earns 41 cents on every equity dollar to Verizon's 16, the kind of gap that justifies one business trading at twice the multiple of the other.
Superconductivity in graphene holds past the field that should end it
MIT physicist Long Ju and collaborators measured three superconducting states in pentalayer graphene that survive an in-plane field of up to about 8.5 tesla, tens of times the strength that usually breaks a superconductor.
Senate confirms Todd Blanche attorney general by one vote
Trump's former personal criminal-defense lawyer takes over the Justice Department, his last votes secured by a written pledge to rescind the $1.8 billion fund several senators had set as their price.
Gould borrowed ‘spandrel’ from the architects, who said he had it wrong
The tapering triangles under the dome of San Marco gave biology its word for a trait that selection never built.