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by barrenko 775 days ago
I mean, resources like these are great, but RL in itself is quite dense and topic heavy, so not sure there is any way to reduce the inherent difficulty level, any beginner should be made clear to that. That's my primary gripe with ML topics (especially RL related).
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Thank you. It is true, indeed the material does assume some prior knowledge (which I mention in the introduction). In particular: being proficient in Python, or at least in one high-level programming language, be familiar with deep learning and neural networks, and - to get into the theory and mathematics (optional) - basic calculus, algebra, statistics, and probability theory.

Nonetheless, especially for RL foundations, I found that a practical understanding of the algorithms at a basic level, writing them yourself, and "playing" with them and their results (especially in small toy settings like the grid world) provided the best way to start getting a basic intuition in the field. Hence, this resource :)