May 2021 Gwern.net Newsletter

May 2021’s Gwern.net newsletter is now out; previous, April 2021 (archives). This is a collation of links and summary of major changes, overlapping with my Changelog; brought to you by my donors on Patreon.Note: I will be in Denver 12–13 June 2021 for a conference.1 WritingsProposal: “Choose Your Own Adventure AI Dungeon”; “Decision Transformers: Preference Learning As Simple As Possible”2 Links2.1 AIMatters Of Scale:Hardware:“Podracer architectures for scalable Reinforcement Learning”, Hessel e...