Recounts the career and contributions of Jim Meindl.

The aim of the NHS Institute for Innovation and Improvement's Productive Ward series is to remove wasteful activities from ward processes and reinvest the time saved in making care more interactive, stimulating, reliable and safe. This article describes how the introduction of Productive Ward on one unit in a mental health trust has delivered improvements in general ward organisation and a rang...

We explore dynamic shaping to integrate our prior beliefs of the final policy into a conventional reinforcement learning system. Shaping provides a positive or negative artificial increment to the native task rewards in order to encourage or discourage behaviors. Previously, shaping functions have been static: the additional rewards do not vary with experience. But some prior knowledge cannot b...

ON SE P T E M B E R 1, 1920, Sir Basil Thomson, commissioner of the Metropolitan Police, received a note warning him of a grave threat to the morals of the British nation. The letter was from R. A. Bennett, editor of the weekly newspaper Truth and a prominent campaigner against white slavery.1 Bennett enclosed a small pamphlet, available from newsagents in plain cover for the price of eight pen...