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		<title>Matlaby Happiness</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Nov 2008 07:10:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Recently, I found myself doing weird things in Matlab (factored MDPs are to blame): using cell arrays, records, and cell arrays of records containing multidimensional arrays&#8230; I was already on the verge of using objects. While technically it is possible to do all this, they open unseen depths of code ugliness. Worse than that(??), they [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gimmereward.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3904238&amp;post=55&amp;subd=gimmereward&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Bragging time</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Nov 2008 08:40:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I got some really good news yesterday: Pieter Spronck presented our paper (we = Pieter, Marc Ponsen and me) on CGAMES&#8217;08. The paper is about generating diverse behaviors in role-playing games, and it received the best paper award (joint with another paper). Woohoo. Posted in shameless self-promotion Tagged: game ai, paper, rpg<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gimmereward.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3904238&amp;post=53&amp;subd=gimmereward&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The price of dying</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Oct 2008 08:03:17 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[doofus theory]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[multi-criteria RL]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Arcade games are a perfect fit for reinforcement learning. First of all, the reinforcement signal could not be more direct than the score displayed in a corner of the screen. Cumulative rewards, pushed into your face: maximize it! If only it were that simple! To keep you informed, these games may display other helpful things, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gimmereward.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3904238&amp;post=48&amp;subd=gimmereward&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Dangerous concentrations of intrinsic rewards</title>
		<link>http://gimmereward.wordpress.com/2008/10/23/dangerous-concentrations-of-intrinsic-rewards/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Oct 2008 06:00:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>szityu</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In my previous post, I tried to make an impression of myself as being &#8220;the poor overhauled guy who does not have five free minutes to tend his blog&#8221;. Which I was, of course. Nonetheless, my excuses would have been much more honest, if I wrote that one day earlier. But I couldn&#8217;t. I had [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gimmereward.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3904238&amp;post=42&amp;subd=gimmereward&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Signs of life</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Oct 2008 04:58:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The blog is not dead &#8211; far from it! There lie lots of half-ready posts waiting to be written on my laptop! For some reason, the first half is always easier to write. I have to admit, though, that Gimme Reward has been dormant for a while. The reasons are many. Writing papers and research [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gimmereward.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3904238&amp;post=39&amp;subd=gimmereward&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Sympathy for the ghosts</title>
		<link>http://gimmereward.wordpress.com/2008/08/19/32/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Aug 2008 23:48:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>szityu</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve spent a fair bit of time playing Pac-Man, and even more by watching it. I didn&#8217;t do it for fun, but for the sake of research. Honestly. I would never play Pac-Man for having fun, as it bores me to tears. There are sooo many better games to waste my time in a funnier [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gimmereward.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3904238&amp;post=32&amp;subd=gimmereward&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The power of CiteSeer. To the x-th</title>
		<link>http://gimmereward.wordpress.com/2008/08/14/the-power-of-citeseer-to-the-x-th/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Aug 2008 22:58:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>szityu</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[CiteSeer seems to be back. That might not be very fresh news, but I discovered it only now. Well, discovery might be a strong word here: Google started to put citeseer links to the first places of my article searches. A few years ago CiteSeer was like a miracle: a site that gives you full [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gimmereward.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3904238&amp;post=29&amp;subd=gimmereward&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A little bit of pause</title>
		<link>http://gimmereward.wordpress.com/2008/07/24/a-little-bit-of-pause/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jul 2008 23:06:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8230; I will be doing IRL exploration in Paris for two weeks. After that, I&#8217;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 :-)<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gimmereward.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3904238&amp;post=27&amp;subd=gimmereward&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>RL-Competition</title>
		<link>http://gimmereward.wordpress.com/2008/07/17/rl-competition/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Jul 2008 14:04:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>szityu</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gimmereward.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3904238&amp;post=24&amp;subd=gimmereward&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Field report from EWRL, part 2</title>
		<link>http://gimmereward.wordpress.com/2008/07/06/20/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Jul 2008 21:14:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gimmereward.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3904238&amp;post=20&amp;subd=gimmereward&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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