I am pleased to announce a new course: The Curated Data Platform. Given two hours of footage, you'd think I would find a spot where I smiled. A Brief Summary The Curated Data Platform is a 2-hour video training aimed at providing you a 30,000 foot overview of the data platform space. In this course,…
Winning at Pong via Reinforcement Learning
I finally got around to trying out a reinforcement learning exercise this weekend in an attempt to learn about the technique. One of the most interesting blog posts I read is Andrej Karpathy's post on using reinforcement learning to play Pong on the Atari 2600. In it, Andrej uses the Gym package in Python to…