An intro to Reinforcement Learning (with otters) – Monica Dinculescu

Before I wrote the JavaScripts, I got a master's in AI (almost a decade ago), and wrote a thesis on a weird and new area in Reinforcement Learning. Or at least it was new then. With all the hype around Machine Learning and Deep Learning, I thought it would be neat if I wrote a little primer on what Reinforcement Learning really means, and why it's different than just another neural net. Richard Sutton and Andrew Barto wrote an amazing book called "Reinforcement Learning: an introduction"; it's my favourite non-fiction book I have ever read in my life, and it's why I fell in love with RL. The complete draft is available for free here, and if you're into math, and want to explore this topic further, I can't recommend it enough.