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by crisbal_ 2964 days ago
As someone who is doing his bachelor thesis on Reinforcement Learning this is some useful information.

OT (but not really) question: does anyone here use Reinforcement Learning techniques at work? For the thesis I am working on black-box optimization of 2 variable functions with Reinforcement Learning (and comparing it with Bayesian Optimization techniques).

As someone else suggested the Sutton & Barto book is really great knowledge but I would also like to suggest these lessons (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2pWv7GOvuf0) by David Silver (who worked on AlphaGo)

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We used it to discover the best picture of a product in terms of click trough rate, we also found that the end user really don't want you to change the order of the pictures of their products
I regularly use reinforcement methods for simple robotics problems. TensorFlow, et al. have made their use practical.