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Episode 28: Sergey Levine, UC Berkeley, on the bottlenecks to generalization in reinforcement learning, why simulation is doomed to succeed, and how to pick good research problems

Generally Intelligent

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Picking Research Questions

The right way to pick research questions really depends a lot on one's research values and what they want out of their research. For me, I think that something that serves as a really good compass is to think about some very distant end goal," he says. "If the most optimistic outcome for your research project is not making progress on your long-term goals, that something is wrong"

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