Archive of posts with category 'tutorial'

A Taste of Reinforcement Learning

This post is an adapted write-up of A Taste of Reinforcement Learning — the opening session in the Shocklab RL Lecture Series at UCT (16 April 2026). It covers the...

A Productive Study and Research Workflow with Notion

As a student - or any busy professional - can attest, keeping track of tasks can be a nightmare. Besides simply tracking when tasks are due, it is often helpful...

So Many Options!

Introduction Fokker-Planck equations, and stochastic differential equations in general, have many powerful applications in a wide ranging set of fields. These include modelling of Brownian motion in physical systems, electronic...

Introduction to Reinforcement Learning

But what is reinforcement learning? The field of reinforcement learning is at the crossroads between optimal control, animal psychology, artificial intelligence and game theory and has seen a surge of...

The Mathematics of Predictive Processing

Hello! Today we’ll be discussing the mathematics of predictive processing - a modern theory for how much of the processing of information is done in the brain. This is also...