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Faster physics in Python
We’re open-sourcing a high-performance Python library for robotic simulation using the MuJoCo engine, developed over our past year of robotics research.
Upgrading Shopify to Rails 5
Getting Started with Relay Modern | Prisma
Follow a step-by-step tutorial for building an Instagram-style app with Relay Modern, GraphQL, and Create React App.
Maintaining a Swift and Objective-C Hybrid Codebase
Learning from human preferences
One step towards building safe AI systems is to remove the need for humans to write goal functions, since using a simple proxy for a complex goal, or getting the complex goal a bit wrong, can lead to undesirable and even dangerous behavior. In collaboration with DeepMind’s safety team, we’ve developed an algorithm which can infer what humans want by being told which of two proposed behaviors is better.
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