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Courses · Reinforcement Learning
Two improvements find the best policy
On lesson 1's slippery grid, two rounds of evaluate-and-improve lift cell 13 from −2.01 to −0.71, while the top half, already optimal, does not move.
Daily · Feature
Jepsen finds ParticleDB’s default mode losing committed writes among 96 issues
In versions 1.1.4 through 1.1.17 of ParticleDB, advertised as “Full ACID. 159K TPS.”, WHERE 4 = 5 returned the row with primary key 5.
Daily · Daily Brief
Justice Department says it now seeks only to segregate Alaska ballots
Its 30 October filing in federal court cites a second candidate named Dan Sullivan, days before Election Day.