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Courses · Reinforcement Learning
Action values let an agent improve its policy from episodes alone
Monte Carlo control with exploring starts reached the optimal policy in nearly every run on the course's slippery grid, where no convergence theorem yet applies.
Daily · Feature
Marvell’s $115 billion for laser maker Lumentum works out to 23 times its revenue run rate
Priced at Marvell’s 28 October close, the deal comes to 18 times Lumentum’s annualized December guidance, just under Marvell’s own revenue multiple that day.
Daily · Daily Brief
Supreme Court won't make California set aside 20,000 alleged noncitizens' ballots
No justice noted a dissent from the one-sentence order, and none answered the Solicitor General's argument that commingled ballots could never be retrieved.