A little bit of pause

… I will be doing IRL exploration in Paris for two weeks. After that, I’ll be back with some tetris-related stuff (possibly with source-code), MDP rantings, and the most reinforcement learning song ever. Or maybe something completely different :-)

RL-Competition

The Second Annual RL-Competition is over, the results can be seen here. Congratulations to all the winners! The organizers did a great job. They worked an awful lot, and they have been extremely helpful, both on the forums and through email. All in all, I think it has been a great competition.

Still, this post will be about some not-so-well-done details. I’m in an easy position with criticism, because many of the mentioned problems will be eliminated soon or are eliminated already (and because criticism is always easy, anyway. But I’m trying to be constructive, sincerely).

Field report from EWRL, part 2

EWRL is over now, the next part of the is late not only because of the internet access difficulties, but because of extreme exhaustion. Talks from 9am to 6pm, then spontaneous social events with various people, closed by a great banquet (held in a place that functioned as brothel, theater and porn cinema in various stages of its existence, then transformed into a luxurious restaurant). And we’ve got the coolest conference T-shirt ever.

Field report from EWRL, part 1

Well, “part 1″ in the title implies that there will be more, which is quite an optimistic statement considering the hazy state of the wifi network. But apart from that minor point, the conference is absolutely great. I mean, if there are two or three talks on a conference that fit my interests, then it’s already OK for me – and EWRL has much higher hit ratio this far. Here comes my highly subjective selection.