Thanks, George. I was familiar with some of Greffenstette's work at some point but the details elude me. Have you attended any of these CMU talks online?
--- Frank C. Wimberly 140 Calle Ojo Feliz, Santa Fe, NM 87505 505 670-9918 Santa Fe, NM On Wed, Aug 5, 2020, 4:37 PM George Duncan <[email protected]> wrote: > > > ---------- Forwarded message --------- > From: Graham Neubig <[email protected]> > Date: Wed, Aug 5, 2020 at 6:00 AM > Subject: Talk Announcement: Edward Grefenstette (Facebook AI/UCL) - 8/11 > 11AM > To: <[email protected]>, <[email protected]>, < > [email protected]> > > > Hello LTI/ML Students, Faculty, > > I'm happy to announce that we'll be holding a virtual talk by Edward > Grefenstette (https://www.egrefen.com/), a research scientist at Facebook > AI Research and Honorary Associate Professor at University College London. > Edward has done some excellent work on machine learning for language > processing, and in particular he has some nice work at the intersection of > language and reinforcement learning. Please see the following for more > details! > > ------- > > Title: Hacking your way to RL in the Real World (someday) > Time: 8/11 11:00AM > Link: > https://cmu.zoom.us/j/92042154213?pwd=aFc2WnMvblZTdUY4WkdSaDFaT0ZOUT09 > > Deep Reinforcement Learning has produced some impressive results—mostly in > a particular kind of game or game-like setting—which are worthy of praise. > However, we (eventually) want agents which do practical stuff in the real > world. Is the real world like these games? What's the realism gap? Are > there games that close it a little? All these questions will (possibly) be > partially and vaguely answered as I present a new environment for RL > research which will help push the boundaries of our field (without setting > your cluster on fire), and discuss some recent methods developed to scratch > the surface of the challenges associated with it. > -- > George Duncan > Emeritus Professor of Statistics, Carnegie Mellon University > georgeduncanart.com > See posts on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram > Land: (505) 983-6895 > Mobile: (505) 469-4671 > > My art theme: Dynamic exposition of the tension between matrix order and > luminous chaos. > > "Attempt what is not certain. Certainty may or may not come later. It may > then be a valuable delusion." > From "Notes to myself on beginning a painting" by Richard Diebenkorn. > > "It's that knife-edge of uncertainty where we come alive to our truest > power." Joanna Macy. > > > - .... . -..-. . -. -.. -..-. .. ... -..-. .... . .-. . > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Zoom Fridays 9:30a-12p Mtn GMT-6 bit.ly/virtualfriam > un/subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > archives: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/ > FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ >
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