Thinking fast or slow? A reinforcement learning approach

wkool@fas.harvard.edu wouterkool.com *** p < 0.001 Contact and details Conclusion Cost-benefit arbitration between multiple RL systems Flexible adapation based on reward-advantage

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Tutorial on Linear Algebra - Massachusetts Institute of ...

Linear Algebra When is a matrix invertible In general, for an inverse matrix −1to exist, has to be square and its’ columns have to form a linearly independent set of vectors –no column can be a linear combination of the others. A necessary and sufficient condition is that det ≠0.

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Crash Course on Basic Statistics

In a small sample of data (less than 25 or so), the sample median tends to do a poor job of estimating the population median.? For task-time data the geometric mean tends to provide a better estimate of the pop-ulation’s middle value than the sample median. Mode? The most frequently occurring value.? Is useful in describing ordinal or ...

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Deep Learning Tutorial - Massachusetts Institute of Technology

No guarantee that the desired MLP can actually be found with our chosen learning method (learnability). Two motivations for using deep nets instead (see Goodfellow et al 2016, section 6.4.1): Statistical: deep nets are compositional, and naturally well suited to …

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THE BEST PRO-LIFE ARGUMENTS FOR SECULAR AUDIENCES

THE BEST PRO-LIFE ARGUMENTS FOR SECULAR AUDIENCES Edited by Mary Szoch Abortion is unlike any other issue debated today. Millions of American women have aborted a child, and the pain, loss, and emotional need to justify what was done, both on the part of the mother and on the part of her loved ones, is strong and deep.1 This means that, in any ...

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EFFECTS OF THE CIVIL WAR ON CIVILIAN LIFE POLITICAL …

EFFECTS OF THE CIVIL WAR ON CIVILIAN LIFE ... - Southern arguments for nullification and secession ceased to be issues ... During the war, the Republicans were able to enact the pro-business Whig program that was designed to stimulate the industrial and commercial growth of the United States. The characteristics of American democracy and its ...

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Emphasizing Morals, Values, Ethics, And …

the complexities of social life and underpinning the importance of morals, values and ethics. In order to help conceptualize and articulate a solid theoretical framework for the ... It presents the rationale and arguments, and emphasizes the ... Beyond …

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Single-Sex Education: Pros and Cons T

Prevailing pro and con arguments reflect a host of considerations (e.g., philosophical, economic, political, psychological, personal). Proponents on either side of the debate regularly provide counter arguments. Others caution that arguments …

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CLONING HUMAN BEINGS - Georgetown University

to arguments and reasons that can be given a clear secular formulation and will ignore explicitly religious positions and arguments pro or con. I shall also be concerned principally with cloning by nuclear transfer, which permits cloning of an adult, not cloning by embryo splitting, although some of the issues apply to both (Cohen and Tomkin 1994).

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Causes and Consequences of Polarization

legislators are generally the most pro-life, pro-gun, and anti-marriage equality. Similarly, the Democrats most likely to support a minimum-wage hike are those most supportive of abortion rights and gay marriage. Using the terminology of Converse (1964), issue constraint at the congressional level has expanded dramatically.

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Jeremy Bentham An Introduction to the Principles of Morals ...

perverse, who has not on many, perhaps on most occasions of his life, deferred to it. By the natural constitution of the human frame, on most occasions of their lives men in general embrace this principle, without thinking of it: if not for the ordering of their own actions, yet for the trying of their own actions, as well as of those of other men.

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LESSON 4 WHAT ARE THE ECONOMIC FUNCTIONS OF …

sorts of things. For example, it could pro-vide everyone with an MP3 player, or pro-vide everyone with an annual vacation at a theme park. Ask: What problems might arise if the government expanded its role along these lines? (These new programs would cost a lot of money. To pay for them, people would have to pay higher taxes.