The AGI Landscape
The AGI Landscape is going to push the boundary of artificial general intelligence.
https://github.com/deepmind/pysc2
https://pythonprogramming.net/starcraft-ii-ai-python-sc2-tutorial/
AGI Safety Literature Review : summary of general safety research in agi
Out-of-sample extension of graph adjacency spectral embedding: consider the problem of obtaining an out-of-sample extension for the adjacency spectral embedding, a procedure for embedding the vertices of a graph into Euclidean space.
Measuring and avoiding side effects using relative reachability: introduces a general definition of side effects, based on relative reachability of states compared to a default state, that avoids these undesirable incentives.
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R. Durrett Probability: Theory and Examples (4th edition).
P. Billingsley Probability and Measure (3rd Edition). Chapters 1-30 contain a more careful and detailed treatment of some of the topics of this semester, in particular the measure-theory background. Recommended for students who have not done measure theory.
R. Leadbetter et al A Basic Course in Measure and Probability: Theory for Applications is a new book giving a careful treatment of the measure-theory background.
There are many other books at roughly the same ``first year graduate" level. Here are my personal comments on some.
D. Khoshnevisan Probability is a well-written concise account of the key topics in 205AB.
R. Bhattacharya and E. C. Waymire A Basic Course in Probability Theory is another well-written account, mostly on the 205A topics.
K.L. Chung A Course in Probability Theory covers many of the topics of 205A: more leisurely than Durrett and more focused than Billingsley.
D. Williams Probability with Martingales has a uniquely enthusiastic style; concise treatment emphasizes usefulness of martingales.
Y.S. Chow and H. Teicher Probability Theory: Independence, Interchangeability, Martingales . Uninspired exposition, but has useful variations on technical topics such as inequalities for sums and for martingales.
R.M. Dudley Real Analysis and Probability. Best account of the functional analysis and metric space background relevant for research in theoretical probability.
B. Fristedt and L. Gray A Modern Approach to Probability Theory. 700 pages allow coverage of broad range of topics in probability and stochastic processes.
L. Breiman Probability. Classical; concise and broad coverage.
O. Kallenberg Foundations of Modern Probability. Quoting an amazon.com reviewer: ``.... a compendium of all the relevant results of probability ..... similar in breadth and depth to Loeve's classical text of the mid 70's. It is not suited as a textbook, as it lacks the many examples that are needed to absorb the theory at a first pass. It works best as a reference book or a "second pass" textbook."
John B. Walsh Knowing the Odds: An Introduction to Probability. New in 2012. Looks very nice -- concise treatment with quite challenging exercises developing part of theory.
George Roussas An Introduction to Measure-Theoretic Probability. Recent treatment of classical content.
Santosh Venkatesh The Theory of Probability: Explorations and Applications. Unique new book, intertwining a broad range of undergraduate and graduate-level topics for an applied audience.
I. Florescu Probability and Stochastic Processes. Very clearly written, and with 550 pages gives a broad coverage of topics including intro to SDEs.
Jim Pitman has his very useful lecture notes linked to the Durrett text; these notes cover more ground than my course will! Also some lecture notes by Amir Dembo for the Stanford courses equivalent to our 205AB.
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Books: https://www.stat.berkeley.edu/~aldous/205B/index.html, by Professor David Aldous from UC Berkeley.
