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Recent Writings

BY OTHERSOct 1, 1987NEW
The Burden of Skepticism

On the exquisite balance between skeptical scrutiny and openness to new ideas — and why science has the additional virtue of being true.

tags: Sagan, skepticism, science, pseudoscience, wonder, Copernicus, SETI

BY OTHERSMar 24, 1750
Three Essays

On the governance of chance, the tyranny of hope, and the disguises of idleness — from The Rambler and The Idler.

tags: Johnson, essays, morality, chance, hope, idleness, Rambler, Idler

BY OTHERSJan 1, 1851
Psychological Observations

A collection of aphorisms on the nature of the will, the masks we wear, the consolations of distance, and the pendulum of opinion.

tags: philosophy, psychology, human-nature, will, intellect, Schopenhauer

BY OTHERSFeb 4, 1988
Learning to Predict by the Methods of Temporal Differences

This article introduces temporal-difference methods — a class of incremental learning procedures that assign credit by means of the difference between temporally successive predictions. The E=mc² of reinforcement learning.

tags: reinforcement-learning, TD-learning, prediction, machine-learning, Markov-processes, convergence

BY OTHERSJan 1, 1999
Pace Layering: How Complex Systems Learn and Keep Learning

Fast learns, slow remembers. Fast proposes, slow disposes. Fast gets all our attention, slow has all the power.

tags: systems, civilization, complexity, time, architecture

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