RL 4: Early heuristics and the birth of Temporal Difference learning (1959–1968)
TL;DR Bellman's math told you how to act perfectly — on paper. 1959 computers had neither the memory nor the map of reality to run it. So a few stubborn engineers cheated their way to something that actually worked. Arthur Samuel (1959) swapped an impossible checkers lookup table for a scoring func…
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RL 4: Early heuristics and the birth of Temporal Difference learning (1959–1968)