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joe_linon Mathematical Foundations of Reinforcement Learning

I'm looking for content (researcher myself) -- mainly on the application side. Should I start with this one? Or anything else?

Very curious about RL for LLMs for example (using data from real use).

joe_linon Living with Nausea: My Story in Six Charts

I was also going to ask about long covid, since this seems to have appeared right after the covid infection...

joe_linon I am (not) a failure: Lessons learned from six failed startup attempts

Well, having been in an accelerator there were folks (startups) in my class who shouldn't have been there. i.e. their startups failed but it was blatantly clear why -- mainly immaturity and not listening to advice.

I think your idea would only work if there were rigorous selection process, but also some mechanism to "fire" founders who aren't contributing or insist to make terrible decisions.

joe_linon Last Flight Out

What happens if someone has a true medical emergency? Like heart attack or burst appendix? Are they stranded?

I feel like this fear would be lingering over me the entire time.