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InControl podcast out now, with guest Sean Meyn

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22-08-2022
Alberto Padoan and Sean Meyn sit down to record the podcast

In this episode, host Alberto Padoan sits down with Sean Meyn (Professor and Robert C. Pittman Eminent Scholar Chair in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Florida) to discuss his non-deterministic quest into the world of Markov chains, networks and reinforcement learning with digressions into beekeeping and jazz.

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