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    Learner Reviews & Feedback for Fundamentals of Reinforcement Learning by University of Alberta

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    About the Course

    Reinforcement Learning is a subfield of Machine Learning, but is also a general purpose formalism for automated decision-making and AI. This
    course introduces you to statistical learning techniques where an agent explicitly takes actions and interacts with the world. Understanding the
    importance and challenges of learning agents that make decisions is of vital importance today, with more and more companies interested in
    interactive agents and intelligent decision-making. This course introduces you to the fundamentals of Reinforcement Learning. When you
    finish this course, you will: - Formalize problems as Markov Decision Processes - Understand basic exploration methods and t...
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    MN

    Apr 11, 2024

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    The concepts may sound confusing in the beginning, but as you go forward you find it interesting and understanding. I suggest you completely read the reading assignments before watching the videos.

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    Sep 1, 2019

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    All the concepts were well explained and this course was perhaps the best I have found for RL.Great efforts have been put into making the course and It goes well in line with the suggested textbook.

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    Sep 29, 2019

    Nice introduction into RL with good practical examples in Python.

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    Aug 7, 2019

    I've enjoyed it. It pushes me to do stuff and not to cut corners.

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    Sep 24, 2023

    Must-be course for everyone who wants to have introduction to RL

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    Aug 21, 2020

    A great introduction to RL for people who have little background

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    Dec 9, 2019

    Last week of this course was nice, great programming assignment.

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    May 26, 2023

    Course is very well designed. And it covers concept from basics

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    Nov 10, 2020

    Great course, but the online programming tool used really sucks

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    By Cristian T

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    Oct 26, 2020

    Great content, nicely presented! The included book also helps.

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    By Volodymyr F

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    Mar 26, 2020

    A perfect introductory course into Reinforcement Learning topic

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    By Ba L

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    Jul 26, 2021

    The best introduction into the world of Reinforcement Learning

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    By khuongnd6

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    Jul 17, 2021

    It is a great course to start learning reinforcement learning!

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    By Yong C

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    Oct 31, 2019

    It's good to learn about reinforcement learning in fundamental

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    By Francois L

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    Nov 18, 2020

    Excellent, it makes the book so much more easy to understand!

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    By Francesco M

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    Aug 4, 2020

    Extremely good: a stellar course for beginners in this field!

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    Jul 19, 2020

    Really liked the way material was presented and learned a lot

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    By Michel H

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    Jun 13, 2022

    Awesome Course. Follows the great Sutton Book . Recommended!

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    By Kunal S

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    Oct 10, 2021

    Great course. The quizzes and assignments were also perfect.

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    By Anubhav T

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    May 9, 2020

    Excellent course to get introduced to Reinforcement Learning

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    By Max L

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    May 4, 2020

    Awesome! Clear instruction with interesting coding example!

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    By Joost G

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    Mar 26, 2020

    Interesting lectures and good quizzes+programming exercises.

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    By Marius L

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    Sep 5, 2019

    Engaging, challenging, and the math was just doable. Thanks.

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    Jun 5, 2020

    I struggled in programming part , but a very efficient tool

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    Apr 2, 2020

    Spent tooooooo much time on reading materials than imagine.

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    By Turgay P

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    Jul 27, 2020

    Great videos and an e-book to learn the fundamentals of RL

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    May 21, 2020

    Very good course, hope there will be more course like this

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