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by nutschig 3803 days ago
Kenneth O. Stanley and Joel Lehman have a great book out on measuring novelty, and using it to search large parameter spaces for interesting behaviors.

http://eplex.cs.ucf.edu/noveltysearch/userspage/ http://www.amazon.com/Why-Greatness-Cannot-Planned-Objective...

I'm a big fan, and would love to talk about this anytime.

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I wonder how many people mistakenly bought it as a self-help book :)

It looks very interesting. What do you feel are the main take-aways with regard to reinforcement learning?