Amie Pollack

“Beginning with the retirement of the Space Shuttle in 2011, the United States experienced a lapse in ability, will, and imagination that was astonishing for a nation that, two generations earlier, had made nine missions to the moon. For almost a decade after the last Shuttle mission, the nation had not been able to send humans into space. It was... See more

And although the Senate failed to reach the two-thirds majority required for conviction, seven Republican senators voted to convict—the most members of a president’s own party to vote for an impeachment conviction in history

I have just realized: I don’t want to see everything. I don’t want to know what people do until it’s a story, until the narrative has been constructed. Gatekeep the location, please. Tantalize me with a taste. Give me the tone, not the totality, until it’s ready.

I think there's a very deep point about the universe being interconnected there, but there's also a really interesting point for people who want to make stuff—write or make podcasts or whatever—because there's this deep fear that everyone has about being pigeonholed. And it's like, well, if I pick this really specific topic, I won't be able to... See more

• BabyAI: A simple, two-dimensional grid-world in which the agent has to solve tasks of varying complexity described in natural language.


• Crafter: A Minecraft-inspired grid environment where the player has to explore, gather resources and craft items to ensure their survival.


• TextWorld: An entirely text-based game with no visual component, where the

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