April 2018

You must have heard of, or have suspected first-handedly, the famous conspiracy theory that the Facebook app listens to your phone’s microphone in order to better target ads that match your current interests. I’ve had the funniest experience with that myself: a friend in the cosmetics business has told me about this conspiracy, and in the same conversation she mentioned that an advertising agent has called her to offer advertising her business. Later that day, I got a Facebook […]

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I think I am at least somewhat more productive than average, and people sometimes ask me for productivity tips.  So I decided to just write them all down in one place. Compound growth gets discussed as a financial concept, but it works in careers as well, and it is magic.  A small productivity gain, compounded over 50 years, is worth a lot.  So it’s worth figuring out how to optimize productivity. If you get 10% more done and […]

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[Updated on 2018-06-30: add two new policy gradient methods, SAC and D4PG.] [Updated on 2018-09-30: add a new policy gradient method, TD3.] [Updated on 2019-02-09: add SAC with automatically adjusted temperature]. [Updated on 2019-06-26: Thanks to Chanseok, we have a version of this post in Korean]. [Updated on 2019-09-12: add a new policy gradient method SVPG.] [Updated on 2019-12-22: add a new policy gradient method IMPALA.] [Updated on 2020-10-15: add a new policy gradient method PPG & some […]

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