Stuff I’ve Done

Teaching Materials

• Spinning Up in Deep RL, an educational resource for learning about deep reinforcement learning.
• Lecture on advanced policy gradient methods (PPO/TRPO): notes, video.
• Review notes for convex optimization

Events and Workshops

• I co-organized the NeurIPS Deep RL Workshop in 2018 and 2019.
• I helped co-run the OpenAI Hackathon event in 2018.
• I led the Spinning Up Workshop at OpenAI in 2019. (video of lectures)

Stuff I Like

Fiction

• Most stories on qntm, especially the free webnovels Fine Structure and Ra. I have a printed copy of the last paragraph of Fine Structure hanging up above my desk.
• Mono no Aware by Ken Liu, a haunting and stunningly beautiful science fiction short story that I cannot more emphatically recommend.
• The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction. You should get a subscription: getting an issue in the mail is such an old-school treat.

Music

• Lord Grenville by Al Stewart.
• Vincent by Don McLean.
• Intergalactic Radio Station by Vangelis.

Etc.

• xkcd
• Meditations on Moloch by Scott Alexander.
• If by Rudyard Kipling.