Spring 2020 course journal

8 January 2020

Introduction
Lecture 1

13 January 2020

Lecture 2

15 January 2020

Homework 1 posted
Lecture 3

17 January 2020

1st discussion section

20 January 2020

No class for MLK Day

22 January 2020

Introduction to policy gradients

27 January 2020

Further policy gradients and related

29 January 2020

Homework 2 posted/discussed
Project 1 posted/discussed
Discussed practical implementation of environments in gym

03 February 2020

Lecture on dynamic programming approaches to MDP (Sutton and Barto)

05 February 2020

Discussed Temporal Differencing (TD(0)) and how Q-learning arises
Extended Homework 2 due date to 19 February 2020