alt Hacker NewsI’m not filled with confidence when the author’s first paper takes an RL approach but then doesn’t use it to change the action taken in the next turn. Seems like simple classification would achieve the same end. And this quote from the paper isn’t overly reassuring:
“I personally found that this sequential approach captured sales dynamics much more effectively than traditional classification models.”
this was the period of arxiv history that led to the new vouching system
that first person phrase stuck out to me, especially given it had plural versions on either side, the author never edited for clarity or consistency