What is reinforcement learning? An AI researcher explains a key method of teaching machines – and how it relates to training your dog
Computing pioneer Alan Turing suggested training machines with rewards and punishments. Two computer scientists put the idea ...
Can Animals Be Mentally Ill? What Science Says
Can Animals Have Mental Disabilities? Mental health issues aren’t exclusive to humans—animals can experience them too. From ...
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Saving the cultural legacy of wild animals
Animals use tools and pass knowledge through culture, aiding survival and adaptation. Human impact is destroying these ...
Almanac Online4d
Students learn about the life cycle from campus farm animals
The circle of life lives within local school campuses. From planting seeds, hatching chicks and slaughtering roosters, ...
Bonobos’ calls may be the closest thing to animal language we’ve seen
To do this, Berthet and her colleagues built a database of 700 bonobo calls and deciphered them using methods drawn from ...
The Rocky Mountain Collegian5d
Doctoral candidate’s machine learning assists in African leopard tracking
While African leopards span the continent, inhabiting a variety of environments like grasslands, rainforests, deserts and ...
The Mining Journal9d
‘Forest-to-table’: Learning that indigenous communities rely on forests for food, medicine and cultural values
When Roger LaBine was younger, he often drove his grandfather to the Ottawa National Forest to hunt porcupines. “In the fall ...
Pupils go wild for science in a school day of fun discovery and messy learning
Young minds were hard at work and even harder at play on Thursday, March 13, as Kingfisher Primary School in Yeovil turned ...
State Port Pilot12d
Southport Elementary is wild about animals
Southport Elementary School first-grade students were learning about animals as part of their curriculum when an idea was born. Things were taken to another level with the creation of a ...
The Times-Reporter16d
She's cuddly. She's cute. She walks on a leash. But Lancaster couple's pet is a skunk.
But when you start really studying them and learning about them ... from the back so she won't jump at them because she is a wild animal by nature. Otherwise, he said training Buttons was similar ...
CBC.ca18d
Bird flu is hitting the U.S. hard. Now, migratory birds are flying north
Since 2022, H5N1 has been infecting chickens, cows, wild birds and cats — among several other animals. With a record number of human cases in the U.S., the situation is getting increasingly ...