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The Bitter Lesson: The history of reinforcement learning

CoRecursive: Coding Stories by Adam Gordon Bell - Software Developer

Jun 13, 202601:00:01Technology

I've been trying to understand how machine learning actually works. Not use it, understand it, down to the ifs and loops. How does a program built out of plain conditionals get better on its own? So late one night I sent...

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The Bitter Lesson: The history of reinforcement learning is an episode from CoRecursive: Coding Stories by Adam Gordon Bell - Software Developer. I've been trying to understand how machine learning actually works. Not use it, understand it,...

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Published Jun 13, 2026, 01:00:01 long, audio available.