Bookmarks for September 26th from 05:53 to 12:53
by danhon
This is an auto-posted collection of my public links posted to Pinboard.in for September 26th from 05:53 to 12:53:
- Delta Computer Glitches Force Flight Halts Third Year in a Row – Bloomberg –
- WhatsApp can be dangerous – The Washington Post –
- WhatsApp founder, Brian Acton, says Facebook used him to get its acquisition past EU regulators | TechCrunch – “I called her out one time,” Acton also told Forbes. “I was like, ‘No, you don’t mean that it won’t scale. You mean it won’t make as much money as…,’ and she kind of hemmed and hawed a little. And we moved on. I think I made my point… They are businesspeople, they are good businesspeople. They just represent a set of business practices, principles and ethics, and policies that I don’t necessarily agree with.”
- Wars in Space Will Require New Conflict and Geopolitical Frameworks, Say Artists –
- TextWorld: A Learning Environment for Text-Based Games documents how the researchers from Tilburg University, McGill University, and Microsoft Research built text adventure worlds with Inform 7 as part of an experiment in reinforcement learning. – “We introduce TextWorld, a sandbox learning environment for the training and evaluation of RL agents on text-based games. TextWorld is a Python library that handles interactive play- through of text games, as well as backend functions like state tracking and reward assignment. It comes with a curated list of games whose features and challenges we have analyzed. More significantly, it enables users to handcraft or automatically generate new games. Its generative mechanisms give precise control over the difficulty, scope, and language of constructed games, and can be used to relax challenges inherent to commercial text games like partial observability and sparse rewards. By generating sets of varied but similar games, TextWorld can also be used to study generalization and transfer learning. We cast text-based games in the Reinforcement Learning formalism, use our framework to develop a set of benchmark games, and evaluate several baseline agents on this set and the curated list.”
- TextWorld (Inform 7 & machine learning) | Emily Short’s Interactive Storytelling – TextWorld: A Learning Environment for Text-Based Games documents how the researchers from Tilburg University, McGill University, and Microsoft Research built text adventure worlds with Inform 7 as part of an experiment in reinforcement learning.