Top /r/MachineLearning Posts, August: Andrew Ng is back at it; Reinforcement Learning makes a splash; Fixing your ANN

No doubt you have heard about it by now. Above is the link to the Reddit discussion, while this is the link to the Coursera specialization. So much to study, so little time!! Testing our agents in games that are not specifically designed for AI research, and where humans play well, is crucial to benchmark agent performance. That is why we, along with our partner Blizzard Entertainment, are excited to announce the release of SC2LE, a set of tools that we hope will accelerate AI research in the real-time strategy game StarCraft II. This includes an API for machine learning which hooks into a given game, a dataset of anonymized game replays (increasing to 500K in the coming weeks), and an open source version of PySC2, DeepMind's toolset.