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According to Sutton (1988), temporal-difference methods had been used in Samuel's checker player, Holland's bucket brigade and the author's Adaptive Heuristic Critic. Copy claim link
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Date 1988 · publication Records dated 1988 → Kind of attribution Attributes a term or concept to the work Scope and limits Sutton's attribution of earlier use, recorded as his statement; Selekoa does not check Samuel's program against it. Samuel's cited work is the 1959 paper (Sutton's reference list).
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Learning to Predict by the Methods of Temporal Differences ↗ Machine Learning (Kluwer); copy with erratum hosted on the author's site incompleteideas.net · 1988
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Source excerpt “have been used in Samuel's checker player, Holland's bucket brigade, and the author's Adaptive Heuristic Critic” Location in source PDF p. 1, abstract
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Source details and check notes Authors Richard S. Sutton Version Retrieved for the candidate pack on 2026-10-29 (SHA-256 c77b59bfd9bff8dbbc7ae5b35c1b9725a4cb1f930d18ebb3165cc7c3e4e4bbe8). Scanned journal article with an OCR text layer and an appended erratum, hosted by the author. Canonical address Open the canonical source ↗ Accessed 2026-10-29 Language English (en) Attribution Richard S. Sutton, “Learning to Predict by the Methods of Temporal Differences”, 1988. Reuse No open redistribution licence asserted. Bibliographic metadata, editorial paraphrases and short attributed quotations (at most 50 words each). Recheck terms before wider redistribution. Check notes Candidate pack passage, Kinds of AI and technical history (research/technical-history). The quotation (16 words) matched the text retrieved for the candidate pack on 2026-10-29. Matching ignored differences of whitespace, case, quotation marks, dashes, PDF line-break hyphens and Unicode compatibility forms, so the source’s typography can differ. A cross-family machine check (31 October 2026, item 71) re-read the record’s sources and found that they support what the record states. No human editorial review. primary source Supports the claim
Learning to Predict by the Methods of Temporal Differences ↗ Machine Learning (Kluwer); copy with erratum hosted on the author's site incompleteideas.net · 1988
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Source excerpt “in machine learning using the game of checkers. IBM Journal on Research and Development, 3, 210-229.” Location in source PDF p. 34, references
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Source details and check notes Authors Richard S. Sutton Version Retrieved for the candidate pack on 2026-10-29 (SHA-256 c77b59bfd9bff8dbbc7ae5b35c1b9725a4cb1f930d18ebb3165cc7c3e4e4bbe8). Scanned journal article with an OCR text layer and an appended erratum, hosted by the author. Canonical address Open the canonical source ↗ Accessed 2026-10-29 Language English (en) Attribution Richard S. Sutton, “Learning to Predict by the Methods of Temporal Differences”, 1988. Reuse No open redistribution licence asserted. Bibliographic metadata, editorial paraphrases and short attributed quotations (at most 50 words each). Recheck terms before wider redistribution. Check notes Candidate pack passage, Kinds of AI and technical history (research/technical-history). The quotation (16 words) matched the text retrieved for the candidate pack on 2026-10-29. Matching ignored differences of whitespace, case, quotation marks, dashes, PDF line-break hyphens and Unicode compatibility forms, so the source’s typography can differ. A cross-family machine check (31 October 2026, item 71) re-read the record’s sources and found that they support what the record states. No human editorial review. Status and meaning Editorial status. Not reviewed by an editor . An exploratory record that no editor has accepted. This status does not say whether a person has read any linked passage. Each evidence record above shows how it was checked.
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