Quieten your inner critic

Quieten your inner critic.

Meaning in motivation: does your organization need an inner life?

Leaders of health care organizations are increasingly interested in ways to attract, retain, and gain commitment from their employees. This interest is created in part because high turnover rates and the lack of commitment negatively affect the provision of care and the bottom line in their organizations. In a quality and cost conscious health care environment, health care managers need to find...

Getting in touch with your inner-city child.

by the Burroughs Wellcome Fund) or the NIEHS. In their senior year, the students must write up their findings, participate in a poster session, and present the research they conducted over the summer in such forums as the North Carolina State Science Fair, the North Carolina Student Academy of Science, and, for the past two years, at the American Association for the Advancement of Science annua...

A critic-critic architecture to combine reinforcement and supervised learnings

In real life, learning is greatly speeded-up by the intervention of a teacher who gives examples, or shows, how to perform a certain task. In all this abstract, we let apart structural simpli cations of the problem by the designer which to not deal explicitely with learning. The intervention of the teacher can be realized in di erent ways: verbal explanation, demonstration, guidance, shaping th...

Hierarchical Actor-Critic

The ability to learn at different resolutions in time may help overcome one of the main challenges in deep reinforcement learning — sample efficiency. Hierarchical agents that operate at different levels of temporal abstraction can learn tasks more quickly because they can divide the work of learning behaviors among multiple policies and can also explore the environment at a higher level. In th...