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Monday, November 2, 202644 min read
Courses · Reinforcement Learning

An agent can learn what each state is worth without knowing the rules

Averaging whole episodes gives unbiased but noisy targets, and updating after every move gives quieter targets that carry the errors in the agent's own estimates.

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Daily · Feature

Tether and Circle froze Binance’s stolen stablecoins and had no reach over the rest

Elliptic counts 44% of the $6.43 billion as frozen or seized, almost all of it stablecoin, where Bybit’s 2025 haul held no stablecoin and saw 3% to 3.84% frozen.

5 min read16 sources
Daily · Daily Brief

WSJ and NYT report the US may resume Iran strikes after the midterms

Israel’s Channel 12 says Netanyahu urged Trump to restart the war right after the election, and Rubio says Trump has made no decision.

3 min read8 sources