Intuitive RL blog series opens with Manim-animated take on contraction operators
AvivTamar1 · x · 2026-09-13
Esra'a Saleh launches an "Intuitive RL" blog series built on visual-first pedagogy: contextualize first, maximize visual examples, minimize words, with animations made in 3Blue1Brown's Manim. The first post covers contraction operators, the core tool for proving RL convergence: starting from norms (homogeneity, triangle inequality, p-norms, Euclidean, max-norm), then operators and their iterates, leading up to the formal β-contraction definition.
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