[keeptrying]

The authors , Barto and Sutton take such a complicated subject and explain it in such simple prose.

I don’t think think I’ve read any other work that does this as well.

Also RL is only going to grow in use and popularity. Highly recommend it for mL practitioners.

[colmvp]

I also recommend interested people to watch David Silver's RL lectures at UCL on YouTube. He covers material from the book.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2pWv7GOvuf0&list=PL7-jPKtc4r...

[abhgh]

I hope it grows in popularity if only because its an interesting take on learning. I did a course on RL in 2007 and our textbook was the 1st edition of this book - back then, it was perceived to be a very niche area and a lot of ML practitioners (there weren't many of those either :) ) had only just about heard of RL.

I am happy that it's popular today.

[platz]

> I am happy that it's popular today.

For doing what?

[siekmanj]

It's definitely finding a niche in robotic control. My lab just released a paper about running a policy trained in simulation in the real world on a bipedal robot.

[wenc]

Doesn't the Roomba use a form of RL?