[chimtim]

is it just me or these are really poorly designed courses? I took the RL course and it first started describing papers in RL with little context (under applications of RL). The course then jumped to bandits and I was hoping it will describe the foundations but it assumed students know about the regret minimization framework. Researchers are traditionally not the best educators -- I usually pick tutorials in conferences that are done by professors as opposed to researchers despite their content.

[gaius]

but it assumed students know

You jumped straight in at the 8th course in the programme and are complaining that it assumes you know something?

So many people on this thread looking for any nitpick they can, we get it guys, you just hate Microsoft. This isn't for you, then, no-one's pointing a gun at your head and saying, take this free course.

[chimtim]

I went through all of them and I did not see any regret minimization background. If you think there is, please point me to it and clear my misunderstanding.