Happy Easter

My hometown decided to have some Easter decoration this year, sponsored by the city council. Gets you into the spirit, doesn't it ?

Here's some more:

Updated Draft of Paper on Newcomblike Problems

Abstract:

This article discusses the family of Newcomblike problems in the context of reinforcement learning. This reframes the problem of rational decision making as one of obtaining maximal rewards in a wide range of environments. Newcomblike problems are characterized by correlations between agent and environment policies. Such correlations are likely if the environment contains other agents with similar architectures, which is a realistic assumption in practice. An optimal policy, taking into account these correlations, is given for known environments. 

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