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Tuesday, August 11, 202640 min read
Daily Reading · Paper of the Day

A controlled ablation traced most of PPO's edge to the code around its clip

The clipped objective that defines PPO is still the field's default, but a 2020 ablation holding the implementation fixed located most of its reward margin over TRPO in nine unglamorous training tricks.

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Current Affairs · Unbiased

Does “subject to the jurisdiction thereof” let the government deny birthright citizenship?

A divided Supreme Court struck down the president’s first order in June, and two narrower orders signed on August 6 have revived the fight over the same five words.

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Parenting · Parenting Research

A baby's own flu shot comes due just as the mother's protection fades

The nasal spray with the strongest efficacy is licensed from age two, and the shot a six-month-old can get was measured mostly in older children.

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Daily Reading · Current Events

Trump narrows the childhood vaccine schedule to 11 diseases

Trump justified the change with a debunked autism link he raised only in his signing remarks, and the country's pediatricians have rejected it.

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Daily Reading · Tech News

An unreleased Claude raised a proven Riemann-zeta bound to 67.2 percent

The day's other headline AI numbers, OpenAI's cyber benchmark and Meta's open-weight comparisons, were self-reports from the labs that produced them.

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Daily Reading · Word of the Day

The jolt in ‘galvanize’ used to be literal

A quarrel over why a dead frog's leg twitched ran from Galvani's bench to a hanged man's corpse at Newgate, and it left English a verb for the shock that rouses a crowd.

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