You are making a subtle mistake here. Tyler's legal defence came from his parents' finances, not his grandparents.
Also, Tyler opting to become a whistleblower on Theranos caused a strain between his grandfather, who is a Theranos board member, and his own family.
So unless they resolve the impasse, it is unlikely that the grandfather will offer a helping hand (financially) to his son and grandson after outing the fraud in a company associated with him.
Any chance the course has room for the other side of the coin? Namely, how neuroevolution and genetic strategies inform deep reinforcement learning?
Am also interested in learning about the state-of-the-art in cloud based packages. I noticed recently Google released a tool called DeepVariant for use on their genomics platform.
Genetic algorithms and the like are pretty much all terrible. They're ways of approximating your gradient, and fall to the curse of dimensionality. The only reason Uber and open.ai published their papers on evolutionary strategies (something pretty different from what people think of as genetic algorithms) is that current policy gradient methods are really bad as well, allowing what is effectively random search to do well.
It's kinda like how Bayesian hyperparameter optimization is pretty terrible and 2x random search almost always beats it easily.
