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Reinforcement learning is a type of supervised learning, where reward is sparse and delayed. For example in chess, a series of moves is made until a sparse reward (win, loss) is issued, which makes it impossible to evaluate the value of a single move. Stil ...
Folk wisdom usually takes the number of participants as an often necessary and sufficient condition for identifying a crowd. This assumption has diffused among academics interested in crowdsourcing and collective intelligence as well. Yet, consider 50 peop ...
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After decades of public or private vertically integrated monopolies, the organisation of the European railway sector was re-structured. The European Commission has been seeking to improve the efficiency of the railways to strengthen the position of railway ...
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Constructing the smart living building means producing a building ahead of its time, since it will respond to goals set for the year 2050. Nowadays, a person consumes in average 5,500 watts. The goal is to reduce this consumption to 3,500 watts by 2050. Li ...
The goal of this study is to estimate the net impact of all measures implemented in the context of the Swiss energy and climate policies on CO2 emissions from combustion processes between 1990 and 2030. The study provides a projection of CO2 emissions unti ...
Replicated systems provide the foundation for most of today’s large-scale services. Engineering such replicated system is an onerous task. The first—and often foremost—step in this task is to establish an appropriate set of design goals, such as availabili ...
This paper presents the preliminary results of a survey on faculty development practices in Switzerland. A sample of 40 faculty developers contacted though the Swiss Faculty Development Network replied to a set of 35 questions between March and May 2016. T ...
