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Are you saying that the Bellman equations already use the notation Q*, or are you saying that those equations (I’m not as familiar as I should be, sorry) are th
by bertil 3y ago
Are you saying that the Bellman equations already use the notation Q*, or are you saying that those equations (I’m not as familiar as I should be, sorry) are the obvious connection between the incoherent ramblings from Reuters?
Because having similar acronyms or notations used for multiple contexts that end up collapsing with cross-pollination of ideas is far too frequent these days. I once made a dictionary of terms used in A/B testing / Feature Flags / DevOps / Statistics / Econometrics, and most keywords had multiple, incompatible acceptions depending on the exact context, all somewhat relevant to A/B testing. Every reader came out of it so defeated, like language itself was broken…
- ElectricalUnion 3y agoCan you link this dictionary here or is it proprietary?
- bertil 3y agoIt was proprietary when I made it, but no one seemed to care–there wasn't anything that wasn't painfully public in there. I'll probably edit and include it in a class I'm planning about teaching people about A/B testing.
- tnecniv 3y agoQ* is an incredibly common notation for the above version of the Bellman equation. I think it’s stupid to call an algorithm Q* for the same reason it is to read too much into this: it’s an incredibly nondescript name.
- kelseyfrog 3y agoI'm saying that everyone already uses that notation including OpenAI[1]. 1. https://spinningup.openai.com/en/latest/algorithms/ddpg.html https://spinningup.openai.com/en/latest/algorithms/ddpg.html
- bertil 3y agoThank you so much! This is a fantastic resource that I somehow missed.