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summaries of the latest blog articles from your favorite tech companies.
OpenAIOpenAI

Robots that learn

Exploring the cutting-edge advancements in machine learning for robotics.

5/16/2017
OpenAIOpenAI

Roboschool

Roboschool: Exploring the Future of Robotics through Interactive Learning Environments

5/15/2017
Jane StreetJane Street

When Bash Scripts Bite

The blogpost discusses the potential pitfalls of using shell scripts and the prevalent warnings against their usage.

5/11/2017
Jane StreetJane Street

Looking for a technical writer

The technical writer position has been filled. Update on the hiring process.

5/1/2017
Jane StreetJane Street

Caveat Configurator: how to replace configs with code, and why you might not want to

Replacing configs with code and the downsides of doing so

4/25/2017
OpenAIOpenAI

Equivalence between policy gradients and soft Q-learning

Exploring the equivalence between policy gradients and soft Q-learning

4/21/2017
Jane StreetJane Street

This is not the performance you were looking for: the tricks systems play on us

The impact of deployment choices on software performance and the potential erasure of optimization efforts due to scheduling policy, affinity, or background workload on a server.

4/20/2017
OpenAIOpenAI

Stochastic Neural Networks for hierarchical reinforcement learning

Exploring the application of stochastic neural networks in hierarchical reinforcement learning.

4/10/2017
OpenAIOpenAI

Unsupervised sentiment neuron

Utilizing unsupervised sentiment neuron for sentiment analysis

4/6/2017
OpenAIOpenAI

Spam detection in the physical world

Exploring real-world applications of spam detection technology.

4/1/2017
OpenAIOpenAI

Evolution strategies as a scalable alternative to reinforcement learning

Exploring the scalability of evolution strategies over reinforcement learning

3/24/2017
OpenAIOpenAI

One-shot imitation learning

Leveraging one-shot imitation learning techniques for efficient machine learning.

3/21/2017