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		TNWin 73 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: CS234: Reinforcement Learning Winter 2025 I didn't get the reference. Please elaborate.

egl2020 73 days ago | [–]

Karpathy colorfully described RL as "sucking supervision bits through a straw".

apwell23 73 days ago | [–]

he said RL sucks because it narrowly optimizes to solve a certain set of problems in certain sets of conditions.

he compared it to students who win at math competition but cant do anything practical .

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