Emotions and reinforcement learning. Partly inspired by Eric Barker's recent discussion of emotional intelligence.

[Title background image: Happy robot and sad robot created, and placed in the public domain, by Lola Kno.]

Randomness writ large. With discussion of Brendan Koerner's recent Wired article on hacking casino slot machines.

[Title background image: A photograph of Las Vegas slot machines, licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license by Yamaguchi先生]

So how doomed are we?

 [Title background image: An Atlas robot image, supplied as public information by DARPA, overlaid on a post-apocalyptic cityscape licensed under CC-BY-2.0 by Ty'Onah Gallman]

Let's just get this sorted out right now.

[Title background image: The Elakala Falls in West Virginia, from Wikipedia ]

How Michael Littman and Dave Ackley met, in the 1980's.

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A forty second test clip