June gwern.net newsletter
June 2020 gwern.net newsletter with 3 new pages/essays, and links on CRISPR, population screening, AI scaling, politics, and technological unemployment.
Free Office Hours for Non-Traditional ML Researchers
Xiaoyi Yin (尹肖贻) has kindly translated this post into Chinese (中文)This post was prompted by a tweet I saw from my colleague, Colin:I’m currently a researcher at Google with a “non-traditional background”, where non-traditional background means “so…
Procgen and MineRL Competitions
We’re excited to announce that OpenAI is co-organizing two NeurIPS 2020 competitions with AIcrowd, Carnegie Mellon University, and DeepMind, using Procgen Benchmark and MineRL.
Exploration Strategies in Deep Reinforcement Learning
[Updated on 2020-06-17: Add “exploration via disagreement” in the “Forward Dynamics” section.
Exploitation versus exploration is a critical topic in Reinforcement Learning. We’d like the RL agent to find the best solution…
May Gwern.net Newsletter
Link compilation newsletter with anime GAN updates, links on AI scaling, discussion of GPT-3, and 1 book review.