Maddox by his successor

Response to Maddox Critique

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Working for John Maddox

Soon after I joined Nature as an assistant editor working for the biology team — responsible for picking biology papers for publication, as well as commissioning relevant reviews and advising the News and Views team and other editors on biology matters — I heard that the journal was planning to publish a special issue devoted to the latest developments in neuroscience. One would naturally imagi...

Reflections on Successor Liability

Deep Successor Reinforcement Learning

Learning robust value functions given raw observations and rewards is now possible with model-free and model-based deep reinforcement learning algorithms. There is a third alternative, called Successor Representations (SR), which decomposes the value function into two components – a reward predictor and a successor map. The successor map represents the expected future state occupancy from any g...

James Macartney and his Successor Arthur Jacob, Pioneers in Development of Medical Education, Hospitals, Anatomy and Surgery

Initially motivated by romantic disappointment, Armagh native James Macartney moved to Dublin to train as a surgeon with William Hartigan and then to London, where his subsequent posts included attachment as Surgeon to a regiment posted to Ireland in 1811 in anticipation of a French invasion. Remaining in Ireland, two years later he succeeded Hartigan as Professor of Anatomy and Chirurgery in T...