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Comparing Tile-coding Implementations

This post discusses a direct approach to implementing a tile-coding representation, comparing both the computational and learning…

7 min readDec 11, 2020

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Comparing Tile-coding Implementations

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Andy Patterson
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Towards Data Science

Consistent Value Function Definitions

Mathematically defining value function and policies, as well as some of the emergent properties of these definitions.

8 min readOct 12, 2020

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Consistent Value Function Definitions

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Andy Patterson
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Towards Data Science

A different take on Bayes Rule

A little more intuition about the terms “posterior”, “prior”, and “likelihood” from a Machine Learning and incremental learning…

5 min readAug 12, 2019

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A different take on Bayes Rule

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Towards Data Science

Foundations of ML: Parameterized Functions

A soft introduction to parameterized functions, a foundational topic in both machine learning and statistics, explained through small…

6 min readJul 27, 2019

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Foundations of ML: Parameterized Functions

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Better Programming

An Introduction to Nominal TypeScript

What are nominal types and why should I use them?

6 min readJul 26, 2019

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An Introduction to Nominal TypeScript

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Andy Patterson

Andy Patterson

I am a PhD student at the University of Alberta studying Statistical Machine Learning and focusing on Reinforcement Learning and Representation Learning.

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