Not any technical ones. A few policy ones.

On Wed, Aug 5, 2020 at 4:57 PM Frank Wimberly <[email protected]> wrote:

> Thanks, George.  I was familiar with some of Greffenstette's work at some
> point but the details elude me.  Have you attended any of these CMU talks
> online?
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> On Wed, Aug 5, 2020, 4:37 PM George Duncan <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> ---------- Forwarded message ---------
>> From: Graham Neubig <[email protected]>
>> Date: Wed, Aug 5, 2020 at 6:00 AM
>> Subject: Talk Announcement: Edward Grefenstette (Facebook AI/UCL) - 8/11
>> 11AM
>> To: <[email protected]>, <[email protected]>, <
>> [email protected]>
>>
>>
>> Hello LTI/ML Students, Faculty,
>>
>> I'm happy to announce that we'll be holding a virtual talk by Edward
>> Grefenstette (https://www.egrefen.com/), a research scientist at
>> Facebook AI Research and Honorary Associate Professor at University College
>> London. Edward has done some excellent work on machine learning for
>> language processing, and in particular he has some nice work at the
>> intersection of language and reinforcement learning. Please see the
>> following for more details!
>>
>> -------
>>
>> Title: Hacking your way to RL in the Real World (someday)
>> Time: 8/11 11:00AM
>> Link:
>> https://cmu.zoom.us/j/92042154213?pwd=aFc2WnMvblZTdUY4WkdSaDFaT0ZOUT09
>>
>> Deep Reinforcement Learning has produced some impressive results—mostly
>> in a particular kind of game or game-like setting—which are worthy of
>> praise. However, we (eventually) want agents which do practical stuff in
>> the real world. Is the real world like these games? What's the realism gap?
>> Are there games that close it a little? All these questions will (possibly)
>> be partially and vaguely answered as I present a new environment for RL
>> research which will help push the boundaries of our field (without setting
>> your cluster on fire), and discuss some recent methods developed to scratch
>> the surface of the challenges associated with it.
>> --
>> George Duncan
>> Emeritus Professor of Statistics, Carnegie Mellon University
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>> My art theme: Dynamic exposition of the tension between matrix order and
>> luminous chaos.
>>
>> "Attempt what is not certain. Certainty may or may not come later. It may
>> then be a valuable delusion."
>> From "Notes to myself on beginning a painting" by Richard Diebenkorn.
>>
>> "It's that knife-edge of uncertainty where we come alive to our truest
>> power." Joanna Macy.
>>
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My art theme: Dynamic exposition of the tension between matrix order and
luminous chaos.

"Attempt what is not certain. Certainty may or may not come later. It may
then be a valuable delusion."
>From "Notes to myself on beginning a painting" by Richard Diebenkorn.

"It's that knife-edge of uncertainty where we come alive to our truest
power." Joanna Macy.
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