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).

Conference time

As you possibly all know, EWRL starts tomorrow, followed immediately by ICML (then UAI and COLT). I will be there on the first two, so probably there won’t be many new posts in the next one-and-a-half weeks. After that, however, I guess my head will be full of things to blog about. So, stay tuned :-)

Also, the Second Annual RL-competition is held on the workshop day of ICML, where my Tetris code is trying to do its best. Unfortunately, I had much less time tending it than I expected, but results are not bad this far. I intend to write about that, too!