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Episode: Pieter Abbeel: Deep Reinforcement Learning | Lex Fridman Podcast #10

Published on December 16, 2018

Here’s a list of all the books mentioned in this episode. Click on the links to watch specific excerpts on YouTube and feel free to purchase the books if they caught your interest!

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Reinforcement Learning

by Richard S. Sutton, Andrew G. Barto

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so when I first picked up Sutton's Richard Sutton's reinforcement learning book before sort of this deep learning before the re-emergence of neural networks is a powerful mechanism for machine learning

Lex mentions picking up Richard Sutton's reinforcement learning book before the deep learning era, noting its beauty.

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The Better Angels of Our Nature

by Steven Pinker

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Well if you look at Steven Pinker he highlights is pretty nicely in better better angels of our nature where he talks about violence decreasing over time consistently

Pieter Abbeel mentions Steven Pinker and his book 'The Better Angels of Our Nature' as evidence for violence decreasing over time.

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