No brain required: This is how the single-celled Stentor learns

Scientists have known for more than a century that a single-celled organism with no nerve cells—much less a brain—can behave ...

Non-profit teaches high school athletes how to navigate NIL contracts

High school athletes can get good money for their name, image and likeness or NIL in many states now, but they also don't know much about how to navigate such contracts.
IEEE

Sequential Federated Learning in Hierarchical Architecture on Non-IID Datasets

Abstract: In a real federated learning (FL) system, communication overhead for passing model parameters between the clients and the parameter server (PS) is often a bottleneck. Hierarchical federated ...
IEEE

Diffusion Generation-Based Federated Learning for Non-IID Defect Recognition

Abstract: Effective defect recognition is essential for improving quality and stability in smart manufacturing, often necessitating collaborative learning across multiple organizations. Federated ...
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Study finds magpies’ social lives shape the call combinations they learn

Young Western Australian magpies do not simply inherit their vocal repertoires. They learn specific call combinations from the social groups they grow up in, gradually assembling structured sequences ...
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What Estate Planners Should Know About Non-Qualified Deferred Annuity Contracts

Non-qualified deferred annuity contracts (NQDACs) are some of the most misunderstood financial products on the planet. This lack of understanding has allowed pundits to villainize them unfairly, ...