Actor model (computer science)

History of the Actor model

In computer science, the Actor model, first published in 1973, is a mathematical model of concurrent computation. (Wikipedia).

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Sarah Bernhardt: The World's First Celebrity

Before social media and summer blockbusters, before even the concept of a “movie star,” one extraordinary woman created the blueprint for the stars of today. Without a single tweet, having never posted on instagram, the woman who has been described as “the world’s first celebrity” captiva

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Star Trek Filming Miniature Model and Hand Props!

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The Poignancy of Old Pornography

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The Silent Era: Crash Course Film History #9

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Drawn History: The 1930s | History

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Leonard Nimoy’s First Impression of Star Trek | History

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Charlie Chaplin on the silent films of the old days

Excerpt from the BBC interview of 1952.

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Actor Critic Methods Are Easy With Keras

Today you'll see how to code an Actor Critic Deep Reinforcement Learning Agent in the Keras Framework. You'll also get to see how we can implement custom loss functions in Keras, which isn't something I've seen widely talked about. Actor Critic Methods are a type of temporal difference po

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Everything You Need To Master Actor Critic Methods | Tensorflow 2 Tutorial

In this brief tutorial you're going to learn the fundamentals of deep reinforcement learning, and the basic concepts behind actor critic methods. We'll cover the Markov decision process, the agent's policy, reward discounting and why it's necessary, and the actor critic algorithm. We'll im

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Deep Reinforcement Learning in Python Tutorial - A Course on How to Implement Deep Learning Papers

In this intermediate deep learning tutorial, you will learn how to go from reading a paper on deep deterministic policy gradients to implementing the concepts in Tensorflow. This process can be applied to any deep learning paper, not just deep reinforcement learning. In the second part, y

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Portraits of Power - Prologue - The Old Order

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Reinforcement Learning in Continuous Action Spaces | DDPG Tutorial (Tensorflow)

Let's use deep deterministic policy gradients to deal with the bipedal walker environment. Featuring a continuous action space and 24 elements in the observation vector, this is a perfect environment for a non trivial example of DDPG. #DDPG #BipedalWalker #DeepDeterministicPolicyGradients

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Reinforcement Learning Environment for Car Agent - Self-driving cars with Carla and Python p.3

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Best of Velocity: What, Where and When Is Risk in System Design?

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Velocity 2013: Johan Bergström "What, Where And When Is Risk In System Design?"

http://velocityconf.com Johan Bergström, Associate Professor at Lund University, Sweden, will introduce the notion of risk in system design. http://velocityconf.com/velocity2013/public/schedule/speaker/151846

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Reinforcement Learning in Continuous Action Spaces | DDPG Tutorial (Pytorch)

In this tutorial we will code a deep deterministic policy gradient (DDPG) agent in Pytorch, to beat the continuous lunar lander environment. DDPG combines the best of Deep Q Learning and Actor Critic Methods into an algorithm that can solve environments with continuous action spaces. We w

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