Helpful RL Resources
Online courses, books, and blog posts that I found helpful while getting into RL
Online Courses
Coursera
Reinforcement Learning Specialization from University of Alberta
If you haven’t worked with reinforcement learning before or don’t have a strong grasp on the theory, I found this Coursera specialization from Martha and Adam White (DeepMind Researcher) at the University of Alberta to be immensely valuable.
Books
Technical Books
Reinforcement Learning, Second Edition — Sutton and Barto
The Coursera course above relies on the following (free!) textbook that appears to be considered the bible-equivalent of reinforcement learning. I’ve found this to be an invaluable reference in addition to the required reading from the course.
Blog Posts
The Bitter Lesson - Richard Sutton
Some interesting thoughts from Sutton on compute vs domain knowledge and the repeated history of compute winning out
http://incompleteideas.net/IncIdeas/BitterLesson.html
Podcasts
DeepMind: The Podcast
Season 1 & 2
Technical discussions with DeepMind researchers on a variety of projects, their implications, and general artificial intelligence.