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Raeline Valbuena's avatar

holy moly. this is such a great snapshot of the overall state of the silicon bay area - still, I'm a bit bummed that you're right about it all

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Nathan Lambert's avatar

I’m a high agency NPC

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Nicholas Wagner's avatar

Appreciate you writing these explainers! A lot of people in my circles in DC are completely divorced from these intellectual currents, and I like pointing to your posts.

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Nathan Lambert's avatar

A better reference for “Sutton and Barto, fathers of reinforcement learning, turn utility into “reward,” “ may be Widrow & Hoff that came up with utility to go in control theory. Sutton and Barto made the modern rl that built on it.

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Larasati Hartono's avatar

This was such a great read. At the same time can't help but feel that we're all so doomed. Doomer me.

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kora 🌊's avatar

oh, what a time to be alive

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