Scale By The Bay 2020: Robert J. Neal, A Reinforcement Learning Framework in Scala 3

ai.bythebay.io Nov 2025, Oakland, full-stack AI conference This talk covers the implementation details of a personal project I've developed to make it easier for engineers to learn reinforcement learning and try out different reinforcement learning approaches. The talk will cover some of the features of Scala 3 that make the library better, teleologically. That is, it will cover how Scala 3 makes it easier to use the reinforcement learning library and easier to learn reinforcement learning from it, because of Scala 3's features. In this talk you will learn the basics of reinforcement learning and how to build on that basic understanding using this library. You will also learn how to use the library to compare different reinforcement methods. Robert J. Neal Software Engineer, Twitter Robert is a software engineer of the functional style who is focused on experimentation systems and decision science. His current preoccupations are philosophy of probability, epistemology of statistics, and reinforcement learning.