ACRL chapters

Trollope’s Chapters

The unit of the chapter – so fundamental to nineteenth-century prose narrative, yet so thoroughly ignored in accounts of the form of novels – is fundamental to Anthony Trollope’s work. The chapter stems from the textual practices of antiquity and of medieval biblical transmission, ultimately finding a home in the novel form. Chapters are key to Trollope’s understanding of readerly experience, i...

16-899C ACRL Tetris Reinforcement Learner

Our approach to this problem was to use reinforcement learning with a function approximator to approximate the state value function [RSS98]. In our case, a +1 reward was given for every completed line, so that the value function would encode the long-term number of lines that is going to be completed by the algorithm. In order to achieve this, we extract features from the game state, and use gr...

Ten Chapters in Turbulence

This interesting volume is an outgrowth of the Workshop on Inertial-Range Dynamics and Mixing held in the fall of 2008 at the Isaac Newton Institute in Cambridge. As the title indicates, it consists of 10 independent chapters, each written by prominent turbulence researchers. The preface includes musings on the difficulty of the subject and the hope for a satisfactory theory. Chapters 1–4 focus...

Chapters on Bounded Arithmetic

We characterize the collapse of Buss’ bounded arithmetic in terms of the prov­ able collapse of the polynomial time hierarchy. We include also some general model-theoretical investigations on fragments of bounded arithmetic.

Math 53H: Additional chapters