Mentoring is enriching for both the mentor and mentee, but often getting started can be a primary obstacle to this useful tool. This contribution focuses on how to embark on a mentoring relationship with a junior colleague. In addition to describing various approaches to being a mentor, it outlines unproductive traps to avoid, steps to establishing a successful mentoring relationship, including...

The EDUCATE research-based accelerator employs academic mentors to support entrepreneurs use research in the development of educational technology. Mentorship is a common feature business accelerators, yet only few empirical studies have shown or analysed relationship and how it influences success outcomes. In EDUCATE, mentorship adopts unique approach by focusing on goals evidence-based knowle...

Reinforcement learners are agents that learn to pick actions lead high reward. Ideally, the value of a reinforcement learner's policy approaches optimality-where optimal informed is one which maximizes Unfortunately, we show if an agent guaranteed be “asymptotically optimal” in any (stochastically computable) environment, then subject assumption about true this will either “destroyed” or “incap...

Purpose To explore the phenomenon of the mentor–mentee relationship and to characterize this relationship among people who have obtained early career support from a government funding agency, in order to facilitate the development of future mentorship programs. Method A qualitative study was completed involving clinician scientists who were awarded early career support from a provincial funding...