Fast Deep Reinforcement Learning Course
Learning and science
online course
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How HN took it
6 positive, 3 neutral or asking, 2 mixed, 2 critical, out of 13 comments about the project. Thread score +0.26.
Design: 3 for, 0 againstIdea: 1 for, 1 againstExecution: 0 for, 1 against
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What HN said
What people liked
Well-structured course with crisp presentation and good illustrations
From 3 comments
Enrolled! Went through the detailed lesson plan and you have done a great job structuring the course. I am looking forward to doing it over the weekend. One suggestion: Instead…
robinson_k on HNCongrats on the launch. I have seen your Deep RL tutorials circulating on YouTube. I like your presentation style: crisp and precise.
superfreek on HNI love the illustrations in the slides. How long did it take you to learn flip chart drawing and how did you do the overlays in LaTeX?
Fletch137 on HN
RLlib maker praised the course
From 1 comment
Objections
Courses teach API usage rather than fundamental theory
From 1 comment
This looks nicely done, but for anyone interested I'd like to mention that these courses aren't something that can replace learning the fundamental concepts and theories behind…
mywaifuismeta on HN
RLlib is hard to modify for custom algorithms
From 2 comments
To be honest though, the practical side of things of RL can be a hit-and-miss in terms of "fun" depending on the person. It requires a lot of manual hand tuning, reward shaping,…
cyber_kinetist on HNAh, good to meet here. I had experience using RLlib while participating in research back at grad school (which eventually became a SIGGRAPH conference paper this year!), and I've…
cyber_kinetist on HN
Course pages blocked in Edge and strict tracking protection
From 2 comments
When I visit the site using Edge, even with Adblockers disabled, I'm unable to view the courses listed as "preview", such as…
thrill on HNI am sorry about that. Unfortunately, the same thing happens in Firefox when the tracking protection is set to "strict". This is apparently happening after Teachable updated…
gh1 on HN
Requests
Name notebooks uniquely so downloads do not overwrite
From 1 comment
Enrolled! Went through the detailed lesson plan and you have done a great job structuring the course. I am looking forward to doing it over the weekend. One suggestion: Instead…
robinson_k on HN
Questions
Does the course use high-level Gym or lower-level code
From 1 comment
Thank you for doing this! I haven't looked deeply enough, but does this course use a higher-level 'package' such as OpenAI Gym or teach at a lower-level? (Is lower-level stuff…
pciexpgpu on HN
Does the course cover transformers
From 1 comment
Would this teach transformers? Or is that something else? Also any tips for finding a study group for learning the large language models? I can’t seem to self motivate.
mrfusion on HN
Alternatives named
Sutton and Barto book
From 2 comments
IMO the best intro book is Sutton's [1], it's extremely accessible (little math background needed) and covers all basic concepts. Work through David Silver's course (search…
mywaifuismeta on HNHF covers Decision Transfomers. Sutton and Barto is the best start for foundations. Start there.
axpy906 on HN
David Silver RL course
From 1 comment
Before jumping into Deep Reinforcement Learning I highly recommend doing the Reinforcement Learning course by David Silver [1]. [1]…
Asafp on HN
Stable Baselines 3
From 1 comment
To be honest though, the practical side of things of RL can be a hit-and-miss in terms of "fun" depending on the person. It requires a lot of manual hand tuning, reward shaping,…
cyber_kinetist on HN
Hugging Face deep RL class
From 1 comment
May also be of interest: https://github.com/huggingface/deep-rl-class
abidlabs on HN