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Neil Slater
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  • Durham, United Kingdom
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Web developer, specialising in server-side code using open-source solutions such as LAMP and Ruby/Rack. Also keen hobby programmer for graphics, gaming (RPGs), and machine learning puzzles on kaggle.

I have published three Ruby gems: games_dice, pool_of_entropy and convolver

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What is the relation between Q-learning and policy gradients methods?
Apr 28, 2018
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What's the difference between model-free and model-based reinforcement learning?
Jun 13, 2018
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What are "bottlenecks" in neural networks?
Dec 31, 2017
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How to define states in reinforcement learning?
Aug 31, 2018
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Why does the policy network in AlphaZero work?
Sep 14, 2018
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How does LSTM in deep reinforcement learning differ from experience replay?
Aug 27, 2018
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What is the difference between an observation and a state in reinforcement learning?
Apr 9, 2018
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What is the relation between online (or offline) learning and on-policy (or off-policy) algorithms?
Feb 10, 2019
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How do neural networks play chess?
Mar 18
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In a CNN, does each new filter have different weights for each input channel, or are the same weights of each filter used across input channels?
Mar 22, 2018
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Can we have LaTeX formatting support?
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What is the "dying ReLU" problem in neural networks?
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