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The success of your students starts with the right supplies. Whether you’re a parent or caregiver with one or more kids in school, or a teacher responsible for an entire classroom, Staples is a one-stop shop for all the school supplies you need. From writing supplies and paper to school tech and furniture, we have everything on your back-to-school list.
Shop by grade
Staples makes it easy to get exactly what your students need by organizing all the essentials by grade. Shop for preschool supplies like learning toys and rest mats, or elementary school supplies for everything your kids need from kindergarten through 5th grade. Our selection of middle school supplies includes more advanced items like planners and scientific calculators, and you can find everything you need for high school in our high school supplies section. Getting ready for college? From dorm essentials to laptops, get everything you need from our selection of college supplies.
All the essentials for school
Whether you want to shop by subject or are looking for furniture and supplies for learning at home, we’ve got the right selection. Browse classroom essentials including cleaning supplies, storage, classroom décor, snacks, and teacher supplies. For everything from school art supplies to calculators, binders, school backpacks, lunch boxes and more, we’ve got what your students need to succeed.
Take a seat
Whether you’re working from home or outfitting a space for gaming, your comfort is dependent on finding the best chair. At Staples, we provide a broad range of office chairs and seating, so you can find the right fit for you. Select from multifunctional task chairs, computer & desk chairs, drafting stools and more. If you will be using your new chair for multiple hours a day, make sure to get an ergonomic office chair to prevent unnecessary strain.
Comfort, all day long
Office furniture that is the proper size and height makes a big difference. When shopping for chairs, the height of the seat should be adjustable so that the user’s feet can sit flat on the floor with their knees at right angles. Likewise, the accompanying office desk should be at a height where the users’ elbows can sit comfortably at right angles at their sides while typing or writing. Browse our selection to find the combination that’s right for you. If size if a concern, check out our big & tall chairs which can support up to 500lbs.
Game on
If you’re a gamer, you know that a single gaming session can last all day or night. For the best and most comfortable gaming setup, Staples has gaming chairs in colors and styles for everyone. Make sure to match your new chair to an ergonomic gaming desk, the perfect complement for the high-tech gaming computer and accessories you’ve invested in.
Tech accessories for work or play
Whether you’re shopping for tech essentials for school, work or anywhere in between, Staples has all the latest products to keep you up to date. Browse our selection of laptops and Chromebooks to find the perfect on-the-go computer for schoolwork, homework, hybrid work, and play. If you’re a gamer, streamer, or work with large files, a gaming laptop or desktop PC might be the best option for you. With installed RAM up to 64GB and up to 2TB SSD, gaming laptops can handle everything from the newest online games to editing audio, films and more. Need more file storage? Increase capacity with an external hard drive.
Shop NXT Technologies wide assortment of tech accessories including chargers, power banks, headsets and more. Staples range of audio accessories can help you create the best audio experience. From headsets for focused work time to headphones and Bluetooth speakers for music and entertainment, find the latest audio technology at Staples.
Show seasonal allergies who’s boss
If you suffer from seasonal allergies, now is when they are at their worst. Stock up on allergy season’s most important products to keep your home, classroom, and office allergen-free. Start with an air purifier to strip the air of allergens like pollen and pet dander and replace existing air filters for improved air quality. Frequently dust, wipe down hard surfaces, and vacuum carpets and furniture to help eliminate pollen tracked in from outside and dander left behind by pets. When leaving the house, check the pollen count and bring a face mask to help filter the air you breath outside.
No matter what you do, it’s unlikely that the symptoms of seasonal allergies can be avoided entirely. Make sure to have over-the-counter cold and allergy medications on hand to battle symptoms, and stock up on facial tissues so you’ll always have one available when you need them.
Spring (Cleaning) is in the air
Spring cleaning and decluttering is a tradition meant to refresh our spaces for the year ahead. Staples has everything you need to clear out the clutter, store and organize your belongings, and all the right cleaning supplies.
Clear out the clutter
Start by preparing a checklist and make sure you have all the necessary supplies. Use storage bins and a label maker to make sorting and organizing easier. Prepare extra boxes for donations and trash bags for the things you no longer need. Look for decorative boxes & baskets that will compliment your home’s décor and use them to organize. You can also use closet organizers and storage drawers anywhere they are needed.
Start with the basics
An all-purpose cleaner, cleaning brush and microfiber cloths will clean most surfaces. Use a duster to remove unwanted dirt and furniture polish to revitalize wood surfaces. Upgrade your broom, dustpan, wet mop, and vacuum to make cleaning any type of flooring a breeze.
The nitty gritty
Spring cleaning doesn’t stop there. There’s so much you can do to reset your home:
- Improve air quality and eliminate pollen and pet dander with a new air purifier and an air freshener with a scent you love.
- On a sunny day, take the opportunity to clean your windows – you’ll need glass cleaner, a bucket, a squeegee, and paper towels.
- Have a step stool or ladder on hand to access hard-to-reach places like the tops of cabinets and overhead lighting.
- Replace broken light bulbs and check the batteries in your smoke detectors.
- Use drain cleaner to clear up sink and bathtub drains.
Up your printing game with a Supertank Printer
Looking for a printer with more print capacity that’s better for the environment and your wallet? Shop Staples selection of Supertank Printers for all the benefits of an inkjet printer with the convenience and savings of replacement ink bottles that last longer and cost less per page than standard inkjet printer cartridges.
Find a Supertank printer from your favorite top printer brand including:
- HP Smart Tank & Neverstop Printers
- Brother INKVestment Tank Printers
- Canon MegaTank Printers
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And don’t forget to browse Staples Ink and Toner Finder to find the right replacement ink for your new printer. No matter what printer you have, enter the brand, cartridge or printer model into the easy-to-use Ink and Toner Finder, and browse for compatible ink.
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These strange, disturbing photos suggest that AI is getting smarter / Sudo Null IT News0001
AI learns to generate images from captions and understands our world better
Of all the artificial intelligence models, it was OpenAI’s GPT-3 that captured the public’s imagination the most. She can spew poems, short stories, and songs without much prompting, making her think they are the work of a man. But eloquence is just a trick, not to be confused with real intelligence.
However, the researchers believe that the same techniques used to create GPT-3 hold the secret to creating more advanced AI. GPT-3 was trained on a huge amount of textual information. What if the same methods are trained simultaneously on text and images?
New research called AI2 at the Paul Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence takes this idea to the next level. The researchers created a special, visual-linguistic model. It works with text and images and can generate the latest from captions. The pictures look unsettling and strange, not at all like the hyper-realistic “deepfakes” created by generative adversarial networks (GANs). But they could show a new direction for more practical intelligence, and perhaps make robots smarter.
Fill in the gap
The GPT-3 is part of a group of models known as “transformers”. They first gained popularity thanks to the success of BERT, Google’s algorithm. Before BERT, language models were pretty bad. Their predictive abilities were sufficient for autocompletion, but not for compiling long sentences where grammar rules were followed and common sense was present.
BERT changed the situation by introducing a new technique called “masking” ( note is the original name of masking). It implies that different words are hidden in the sentence, and the model must fill in the gap. Examples:
- The woman went to ___ to exercise.
- They bought ___ bread to make sandwiches.
The idea is that if you make the model do these exercises, often a million times, it will begin to detect patterns in how words are assembled into sentences and sentences into paragraphs. As a result, the algorithm generates and interprets text better, getting closer to understanding the meaning of the language. (Google now uses BERT to produce more relevant search results. ) After masking proved to be a highly effective technique, researchers tried to apply it to visual language models and began to hide words in captions. Like this:
____ is on the ground next to a tree. Source: AI2
This time, the model could look at the surrounding words and of the image content to fill in the gap. After a million repetitions, she learned to detect not only the patterns of words, but also the connection of words with the elements of each image.
As a result, models can link textual relationships to visual examples of how infants make connections between learned words and things they see. Models can take the photo below and write a meaningful caption, such as “Women playing field hockey.” Or they might answer a question like “What color is the ball” by associating the word “ball” with a round object in the photo.
A visual-linguistic model can make sense of this photo’s caption: “Women playing field hockey.” Source: JOHN TORCASIO / UNSPLASH
It’s better to see the picture once
The researchers wanted to know if these models develop a conceptual understanding of the visual world. A child who has learned a word for an object can not only name it, but also draw the object when prompted, even if the object itself is missing. So the AI2 project team suggested that the model do the same: generate images from captions. All models produced meaningless pixel garbage.
Is that a bird? This is a plane? No, this is an abracadabra generated by artificial intelligence. Source: AI2
It makes sense: converting text to an image is harder than doing the opposite. “The caption does not define everything that is in the picture,” says Ani Kembhavi, head of the computer vision team at AI2. Thus, the model must draw on a large amount of knowledge about our world in order to add the missing details.
For example, if a model is asked to draw “a giraffe walking along a road”, she would need to infer that the road would be gray rather than hot pink, and would pass next to a field rather than the sea. Although all this information is not explicit.
So Kembhavi and his colleagues Jaemin Cho, Jiasen Lu and Hannane Hadjishirzi decided to see if they could teach the model all this hidden visual knowledge by tweaking the masking approach. Instead of training the algorithm to simply predict the masked words in the captions of the corresponding photos, they also trained it to predict the masked pixels in the photos based on the corresponding captions.
The final images created by the model are not quite realistic. But it is not important. They contain the correct high-level visual concepts. AI acts like a child who draws a stick figure to represent a person. (You can test the model yourself here).
Sample images generated by the AI2 model from captions. Source: AI2
The ability of visual language models to generate these kinds of images represents an important step forward in artificial intelligence research. This suggests that the model is actually capable of a certain level of abstraction, a fundamental skill for understanding the world.
In the long term, skill can have important implications for robotics. The better the robot understands the environment and uses language to communicate about it, the more complex tasks it can perform.