180: Reinforcement Learning

Patrick and Jason introduce reinforcement learning and place it alongside supervised and unsupervised learning. They cover Q-learning, SARSA, policy gradients, actor-critic methods, PPO, imitation learning, and why training and evaluating RL systems is so challenging.

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180: Reinforcement Learning is an episode from Programming Throwdown by Patrick Wheeler and Jason Gauci.

This episode is 112:22 long.

This episode was published on Mar 17, 2025.

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