An absorbing tale of adventure.

Sound absorbing material is called acoustic material.

But absorbance is how good you're absorbing.

It's absorbing my sweat, and it's feeding on it.

But we as adults are no longer absorbing those statistics.

This book is so absorbing that I can't put it down.

It's green beceause of a special light absorbing pigment called chlorophyil.

If you're good at absorbing, that means you're not transmitting much.

If transmittance is a low number, that means you're absorbing a lot.

And the cost over here is 3 unless you reach an absorbing state.

I have nothing to do to day. My practice is never very absorbing.

And so here, we're trying to measure how good is it at absorbing?

And now, this is a picture of atoms in the Sun's atmosphere absorbing light.

Because we have been, somehow, absorbing so much nonsense by dwelling inside this form.

Generally you want to focus on the frequencies that this is the best at absorbing.

And that could be the basis of a sunscreen because sunscreens work by absorbing ultraviolet light.

So each state, except for the absorbing states, we have to define an action to define a policy.

If you're good at transmitting, that means you're bad at absorbing, you don't have a lot to absorb.

Which is used actually to identify chemical elements in a cool matter, which is absorbing exactly at those frequencies.

As before, assume the value is initialized as 100 and 100 for the absorbing states and 0 everywhere else.

Not only blocking the heat flow, but it was also collecting heat by itself, absorbing warm sunlight from the south.

Since the end of the last Ice Age, farming societies have been absorbing their neighbors, making populations more similar within continents.

I never know who might be there, who might be absorbing it and what will happen to it in their life.

Suppose we start with a value function of 0 everywhere except for the 2 absorbing states, whose value is 100 and 100.

It's beautiful to see that the value function is effective the distance to the positive absorbing state times 3 subtracted from 100.

If you're transmitting a lot of light, the absorbance number's going to be very small, which means you are not absorbing that much.

If you take that 1.2 seconds down to 0.4 seconds by installing acoustic treatments, sound absorbing materials and so forth, this is what you get.

Let's assume we have a starting state over here, and there's 2 goal states who are often called absorbing states with very different reward or payout.

Every movie you've ever seen, every TV show, every magazine, every time you surf the Internet, you're absorbing information, a bit like a sponge absorbs water.

If we were to go just west which is the intuitive answer, then there's a 10 chance we end up in the minus 100 absorbing state.

But we have padding, and fantastic shock absorbing things like Sorbothane the materials that help us, when we're hit like this, not to hurt ourselves too much.

Narrator So even for the simple grid world, the optimal control policy assuming stochastic actions and no costs of moving, except for the final absorbing costs, is somewhat nontrivial.

Are they absorbing the story that a male hero's job is to defeat the villain with violence and then collect the reward, which is a woman who has no friends and doesn't speak?

And we can propagate value backwards in reverse order of action execution from the positive absorbing state through this grid world and fill every single state with a better value estimate then the one we assumed initially.

For any possible policy that assigns actions to the non absorbing states, you can now simulate the agent for quite a while and compute empirically what is the average reward that is being received until you finally hit a goal state.

Because this thing codes ones and zeros, and this thing codes A, T, C, Gs, and it sits up there, absorbing energy on a tree, and one fine day it has enough energy to say, execute, and it goes thump .

And what we've been able to do is engineer a virus to basically take dye absorbing molecules and line them up on the surface of the virus so it acts as an antenna, and you get an energy transfer across the virus.

I wish to find an optimal policy for all these states that with maximum probability leads me to the absorbing state plus 100, and as I just discussed, I assume there's 4 different actions, north, south, west, and east that succeed with probability 80 provided that the corresponding grid cell is actually attainable.

Europe, then, is frightened by the prospect of more immigration by Turks who find it almost impossible to assimilate. For the moment, such immigration has almost stopped, owing to rapid economic growth indeed, the fastest in Europe in recent years, which is absorbing the country s available labor and has thus stemmed the flow of emigrants.

The elements, however, abetted me in making a path through the deepest snow in the woods, for when I had once gone through the wind blew the oak leaves into my tracks, where they lodged, and by absorbing the rays of the sun melted the snow, and so not only made a my bed for my feet, but in the night their dark line was my guide.

So for example if you're plan a sequence of actions starting over here, you might go north, north, east, east, east to reach our plus 100 absorbing or final state, but with this state transition model over here, even with the first step it might happen with 10 chance do you find yourselves over here, in which case conventional planning would not give us an answer.

Once this is done, we could make a vehicle which wouldn't injure pedestrians even if it plows into them a light and soft protective suit that you may forget you are wearing it a shock absorbing snowboard or pair of skis that you wouldn't feel anything when you jump and land on the ground with it very durable and light windmills that efficiently generate power.