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Safety Gym Moravec‘s Paradox

Safety Gym

We're releasing Safety Gym, a suite of environments and tools for measuring progress towards reinforcement learning agents that respect safety constraints while training. We also provide a standardized method of comparing algorithms and how well they avoid co…
bubmag
November 21, 2019
Putin says ‘thank God’ as Republicans keep pushing a bogus conspiracy theory that Ukraine interfered in 2016 Putin

Putin says ‘thank God’ as Republicans keep pushing a bogus conspiracy theory that Ukraine interfered in 2016

Russian President Vladimir Putin is gloating as Republicans continue to trumpet a debunked conspiracy theory that Ukraine — not Russia — interfered in the 2016 US presidential election.  "Thank God, no one is accusing us of interfering in the US elections an…
bubmag
November 21, 2019
Business this week Self-driving Vehicles

Business this week

Alibaba priced its forthcoming flotation on the Hong Kong stock exchange at HK$176 ($22.49) a share, which could see it raise up to $12.9bn if all the options are taken up. The Chinese e-commerce giant is already listed in New York. It had wanted to undertake…
bubmag
November 21, 2019
Politics this week Julian Assange

Politics this week

Sri Lankas presidential election was won by Gotabaya Rajapaksa, the younger brother of Mahinda Rajapaksa, a former president who oversaw the bloody end to an insurrection by Tamil separatists. Gotabaya Rajapaksa was defence secretary during the fighting. His …
bubmag
November 21, 2019