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Averages over uncertain outcomes

A button pays 8 points a quarter of the time. What is one press worth? Learn the expected value and spread behind every "average loss" and "expected reward" in AI.

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Lesson overview

A button pays 8 points a quarter of the time. What is one press worth? Learn the expected value and spread behind every "average loss" and "expected reward" in AI.

What you’ll explore

  • Random variables assign numbers to outcomes; expectation, variance, covariance, and sampling describe their distributions rather than promising one particular result.
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Deep Learning — probability and information theory
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