From toddlers' timeouts to criminals' prison sentences, punishment reinforces social norms, making it known that an offender ...

Researchers have tended to study either the trajectory of lifelong mastery, where learning can appear as a steady, gradual process, or the effects of practice in short, repeated bouts.

Effective learning isn't just about finding the easiest path—it's about the right kind of challenge. Two prominent theories—Desirable Difficulties (DDF) and Cognitive Load Theory (CLT)—offer ...

Daniel D. Pratt presents five perspectives on teaching gathered from several years of research across five different countries.

To give it one last tweak, DeepSeek seeded the reinforcement-learning process with a small data set of example responses provided by people. Training R1-Zero on those produced the model that ...