Uploaded December 2025 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago

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The real-world doesn't graph well. Sydney Von Arx discusses GenAI & RL -- See Jane Street’s training programs in New York, London or Hong Kong at jane-st.co/hkginternship26-computerphile (channel sponsor) -- More links in full description below ↓↓↓

Sydney Von Arx of METR talks about an approach to solve Reinforcement Learning & gradient descent with real world problems.

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