Artificial Intelligence: Reinforcement Learning in Python (Udemy.com)
Complete guide to Artificial Intelligence, prep for Deep Reinforcement Learning with Stock Trading Applications
Created by: Lazy Programmer Inc.
Produced in 2022
What you will learn
- Apply gradient-based supervised machine learning methods to reinforcement learning
- Understand reinforcement learning on a technical level
- Understand the relationship between reinforcement learning and psychology
- Implement 17 different reinforcement learning algorithms
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Overall Score : 82 / 100
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Course Description
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These tasks are pretty trivial compared to what we think of AIs doing - playing chess and Go, driving cars, and beating video games at a superhuman level.
Reinforcement learning has recently become popular for doing all of that and more.
Much like deep learning, a lot of the theory was discovered in the 70s and 80s but it hasn't been until recently that we've been able to observe first hand the amazing results that are possible.
In 2016 we saw Google's AlphaGo beat the world Champion in Go.
We saw AIs playing video games like Doom and Super Mario.
Self-driving cars have started driving on real roads with other drivers and even carrying passengers (Uber), all without human assistance.
If that sounds amazing, brace yourself for the future because the law of accelerating returns dictates that this progress is only going to continue to increase exponentially.
Learning about supervised and unsupervised machine learning is no small feat. To date I have over SIXTEEN (16!) courses just on those topics alone.
And yet reinforcement learning opens up a whole new world. As you'll learn in this course, the reinforcement learning paradigm is more different from supervised and unsupervised learning than they are from each other.
It's led to new and amazing insights both in behavioral psychology and neuroscience. As you'll learn in this course, there are many analogous processes when it comes to teaching an agent and teaching an animal or even a human. It's the closest thing we have so far to a true general artificial intelligence.What's covered in this course?
- The multi-armed bandit problem and the explore-exploit dilemma
- Ways to calculate means and moving averages and their relationship to stochastic gradient descent
- Markov Decision Processes (MDPs)
- Dynamic Programming
- Monte Carlo
- Temporal Difference (TD) Learning (Q-Learning and SARSA)
- Approximation Methods (i.e. how to plug in a deep neural network or other differentiable model into your RL algorithm)
- Project: Apply Q-Learning to build a stock trading bot
See you in class!
Suggested Prerequisites:
- Calculus
- Probability
- Object-oriented programming
- Python coding: if/else, loops, lists, dicts, sets
- Numpy coding: matrix and vector operations
- Linear regression
- Gradient descent
TIPS (for getting through the course):
- Watch it at 2x.
- Take handwritten notes. This will drastically increase your ability to retain the information.
- Write down the equations. If you don't, I guarantee it will just look like gibberish.
- Ask lots of questions on the discussion board. The more the better!
- Realize that most exercises will take you days or weeks to complete.
- Write code yourself, don't just sit there and look at my code.
WHAT ORDER SHOULD I TAKE YOUR COURSES IN?:
- Check out the lecture "What order should I take your courses in?" (available in the Appendix of any of my courses, including the free Numpy course)
Who this course is for:
- Anyone who wants to learn about artificial intelligence, data science, machine learning, and deep learning
- Both students and professionals
Instructor Details
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Lazy Programmer Inc.
Today, I spend most of my time as an artificial intelligence and machine learning engineer with a focus on deep learning, although I have also been known as a data scientist, big data engineer, and full stack software engineer.
I received my masters degree in computer engineering with a specialization in machine learning and pattern recognition.
Experience includes online advertising and digital media as both a data scientist (optimizing click and conversion rates) and big data engineer (building data processing pipelines). Some big data technologies I frequently use are Hadoop, Pig, Hive, MapReduce, and Spark.
I've created deep learning models to predict click-through rate and user behavior, as well as for image and signal processing and modeling text.
My work in recommendation systems has applied Reinforcement Learning and Collaborative Filtering, and we validated the results using A/B testing.
I have taught undergraduate and graduate students in data science, statistics, machine learning, algorithms, calculus, computer graphics, and physics for students attending universities such as Columbia University, NYU, Hunter College, and The New School.
Multiple businesses have benefitted from my web programming expertise. I do all the backend (server), frontend (HTML/JS/CSS), and operations/deployment work. Some of the technologies I've used are: Python, Ruby/Rails, PHP, Bootstrap, jQuery (Javascript), Backbone, and Angular. For storage/databases I've used MySQL