[1] https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3730933

[1] https://acoup.blog/2022/03/11/collections-nuclear-deterrence...

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Overleaf (www.overleaf.com) builds modern collaborative authoring tools for scientists — like Google Docs for Science. We have over 14 million registered users from around the world. Our primary product is an online, real-time collaborative editor for papers, theses, technical reports and other documents written in the LaTeX markup language. It’s used by around 500,000 people each day and hosts over 100 million projects.

We’re looking for:

1. A Senior Information Security Manager to lead the next phase of our security and compliance programme. We’ve now (as part of our parent company) achieved ISO/IEC 27001:2013 certification. We are now working toward FedRAMP, and SOC 2 is likely up next. We are open to full or part time candidates for this role. Apply: https://digitalscience.pinpointhq.com/en/postings/c957958e-a...

2. A Senior DevOps Engineer to help us with scaling, observability and continuous delivery. Apply: https://digitalscience.pinpointhq.com/en/postings/103ef078-3...

3. Two Senior Full Stack Engineers as general ‘all-rounders’: people comfortable with backend and a bit of frontend, frontend and a bit of backend, or a balance of both. Apply: https://digitalscience.pinpointhq.com/en/postings/fc496fb8-0...

Some reasons you’d enjoy working with us:

- Most of our code is open source, so you’ll often be working on open source.

- Remote is a first class citizen; all staff work remotely. We get everyone together 2–3 times each year for valuable face to face time.

- Working hours can be flexible to your needs. Core hours are 2pm–5pm UK time.

- You’ll be working alongside a cross-functional team, including designers, product managers and developers, to help Overleaf become the go-to place for scientific writing.

Overleaf (www.overleaf.com) builds modern collaborative authoring tools for scientists — like Google Docs for Science. We have over 14 million registered users from around the world. Our primary product is an online, real-time collaborative editor for papers, theses, technical reports and other documents written in the LaTeX markup language. It’s used by around 500,000 people each day and hosts over 100 million projects.

We’re looking for:

1. An experienced Engineering Director to take over top-level line management and leadership of our engineering team, which has grown to 24 people. Your most important responsibilities will be people management and technology strategy. Apply: https://digitalscience.pinpointhq.com/en/postings/8e0189ae-8...

2. A Senior Information Security Manager to lead the next phase of our security and compliance programme. We’ve now (as part of our parent company) achieved ISO/IEC 27001:2013 certification. We are now working toward FedRAMP, and SOC 2 is likely up next. We are open to full or part time candidates for this role. Apply: https://digitalscience.pinpointhq.com/en/postings/c957958e-a...

3. A Principal Site Reliability Engineer to help us achieve faster delivery by helping us with scaling, observability and continuous delivery. Apply: https://digitalscience.pinpointhq.com/en/postings/103ef078-3...

Some reasons you’d enjoy working with us:

- Most of our code is open source, so you’ll often be working on open source.

- Remote is a first class citizen; all staff work remotely. We get everyone together 2–3 times each year for valuable face to face time.

- Working hours can be flexible to your needs. Core hours are 2pm–5pm UK time.

- You’ll be working alongside a cross-functional team, including designers, product managers and developers, to help Overleaf become the go-to place for scientific writing.

Occasional, mostly engineering and/or recreational mathematics content. A few highlights:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16790338 : The Mathematics of 2048: Optimal Play with Markov Decision Processes

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12385707 : How a Technical Co-founder Spends their Time: Minute-by-minute Data for a Year

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21209216 : Lessons from Building Node Apps in Docker

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Overleaf builds modern collaborative authoring tools for scientists --- like Google Docs for Science. We have over ten million registered users from around the world. Our main product is an online, real-time collaborative editor for papers, theses, technical reports and other documents written in the LaTeX markup language.

We have two open positions:

- Senior Analyst (Business): help us get the most out of our data, answer important business questions, and generate insights to shape where we go next. Apply here: https://apply.workable.com/overleaf/j/5025DD8529/

- Product Manager (Technical): lead product discovery and development initiatives for one (or more) of our customer segments; own research, understanding and delivering value to our authors. Apply here: https://apply.workable.com/overleaf/j/4691B28FD2/

Some reasons you'd enjoy working with us:

- Working hours can be flexible to your needs. Our core hours are 2pm--5pm UK time. Applicants in the US, Canada and UK/EU are preferred.

- Remote is a first class citizen; even before the pandemic, all staff worked remotely. We get together 2--3 times per year for valuable face-to-face time.

- You’ll be a part of a cross functional team to help our users create their best work on Overleaf.

- We're substantially (around 80%) open source, so your work will often be on open source.

Overleaf builds modern collaborative authoring tools for scientists --- like Google Docs for Science. We have over ten million registered users from around the world. Our primary product is an online, real-time collaborative editor for papers, theses, technical reports and other documents written in the LaTeX markup language.

As we expand, we are growing the product team to let us have owners for each of our core areas, namely Editor, B2C growth, Institutions and Enterprise. We are looking for an experienced Product Manager with a strong technical background who can lead our discovery and development initiatives across one of these areas. You will shape up your own roadmap to discover and address user needs, as well as define how to measure success. You will also lead on projects related to your area of expertise from start to finish.

Some reasons you'd enjoy working with us:

- We’re very much user-centric. We use mixed-methods research to inform our product decisions, assess our solutions and, in general, to keep in touch with our user base

- You will have autonomy whilst being part of a cross-functional team of designers and developers, with whom you will work closely to help our users create their best work on Overleaf.

- Working hours can be flexible to your needs. Our core hours are 2pm--5pm UK time. Applicants in the US, Canada and UK/EU are preferred.

- Remote is a first class citizen; even before the pandemic, all founders and employees worked remotely. We get everyone together a few times a year for valuable face to face time.

Apply here: https://apply.workable.com/overleaf/j/4691B28FD2

Overleaf builds modern collaborative authoring tools for scientists — like Google Docs for Science. We have over eight million registered users from around the world. Our primary product is an online, real-time collaborative editor for papers, theses, technical reports and other documents written in the LaTeX markup language. It’s used by around 400,000 people each day.

We are looking to hire an enthusiastic Software Engineering Manager with strong engineering experience to join our team. You’ll be coaching and supporting engineers and helping them with their career development, as well as having input into our high-level planning processes. Alongside that you’ll be doing code review (in JavaScript) and acting as tech-lead on individual projects.

Some reasons you'd enjoy working with us:

- Most of our code is open-source and we're big fans of Free Software.

- We use the “Shape Up” development process, using an 8-week cycle to ensure regular delivery of improvements to the product.

- You’ll be working alongside a cross-functional team, including designers, product managers and developers, to help our users create their best work on Overleaf.

- Working hours can be flexible to your needs. Our core hours are 2pm–5pm UK time. Applicants must be based in the UK, EU, US or Canada.

- Remote is a first class citizen; even before the pandemic, all founders and employees worked remotely and this is part of our values: https://www.overleaf.com/about/values. When we can do so again, we'll get everyone together in London a few times a year for valuable face to face time.

Please apply here: https://apply.workable.com/overleaf/j/DF75EA4A1B/

Overleaf builds modern collaborative authoring tools for scientists — like Google Docs for Science. We have over eight million registered users from around the world. Our primary product is an online, real-time collaborative editor for papers, theses, technical reports and other documents written in the LaTeX markup language. It’s used by around 400,000 people each day.

We’re currently hiring for three roles:

- DevOps Engineer: We’re looking for a devops engineer to help us run and maintain our microservice infrastructure, debug live problems, improve security and adopt new technologies and best practices. You will be working primarily with Google Kubernetes Engine and Terraform, although some knowledge of JavaScript and node.js will help.

- Software Engineer - Frontend/React: We’re looking for a frontend (or full-stack) engineer to help us finish migrating our remaining angular.js code to react, update our code editor from ACE to CodeMirror. In the longer term, we are planning projects around improved collaboration features for teams, improvements to our rich text mode to help non-LaTeX users, and more.

- Software Engineering Manager: We are looking to hire an enthusiastic Software Engineering Manager with strong engineering experience to join our team. You’ll be coaching and supporting engineers and helping them with their career development, as well as having input into our high-level planning processes. Alongside that you’ll be doing code review (in JavaScript) and acting as tech-lead on individual projects.

Some reasons you'd enjoy working with us:

- Most of our code is open-source and we're big fans of Free Software.

- We use the “Shape Up” development process, using an 8-week cycle to ensure regular delivery of improvements to the product.

- You’ll be working alongside a cross-functional team, including designers, product managers and developers, to help our users create their best work on Overleaf.

- Working hours can be flexible to your needs. Our core hours are 2pm–5pm UK time. Applicants must be based in the UK, EU, US or Canada.

- Remote is a first class citizen; even before the pandemic, all founders and employees worked remotely and this is part of our values: https://www.overleaf.com/about/values. When we can do so again, we'll get everyone together in London a few times a year for valuable face to face time.

Apply here: https://apply.workable.com/overleaf/

Overleaf builds modern collaborative authoring tools for scientists — like Google Docs for Science. We have over eight million registered users from around the world. Our primary product is an online, real-time collaborative editor for papers, theses, technical reports and other documents written in the LaTeX markup language.

We are looking to hire an enthusiastic Engineering Manager with strong engineering experience to join our team. You’ll be coaching and supporting engineers and helping them with their career development, as well as having input into our high-level planning processes. Alongside that you’ll be working on application development alongside other engineers.

Some reasons you'd enjoy working with us:

- We use the “Shape Up” development process, using an 8-week cycle to ensure regular delivery of improvements to the product.

- You’ll be a part of a cross functional team, including designers, product managers and developers, to help our users create their best work on Overleaf.

- Working hours can be flexible to your needs. Our core hours are 2pm–5pm UK time. Applicants must be based in the UK, EU, US or Canada.

- Remote is a first class citizen; even before the pandemic, all founders and employees worked remotely and this is part of our values: https://www.overleaf.com/about/values. When we can do so again, we'll get everyone together in London a few times a year for valuable face to face time.

Please apply here: https://apply.workable.com/overleaf/j/5BE7E0FE2F/

Overleaf builds modern collaborative authoring tools for scientists --- like Google Docs for Science. We have over eight million registered users from around the world. Our primary product is an online, real-time collaborative editor for papers, theses, technical reports and other documents written in the LaTeX markup language.

We are looking to hire an enthusiastic Data Analyst to join our team. You’ll be improving and maintaining our data infrastructure, using data to answer important business questions and developing actionable reporting for a range of stakeholders. You’ll also be working closely with our multidisciplinary teams to help us understand user behaviour and the impact of changes we make to the product.

Some reasons you'd enjoy working with us:

- We use data in our decision making. Whether assessing the impact of changes to the product or understanding user behaviour, quantitative data is an important part of the process.

- You’ll be a part of a cross functional team, including designers and developers, to help our users create their best work on Overleaf.

- Working hours can be flexible to your needs. Our core hours are 2pm--5pm UK time. Applicants in the US, Canada and UK/EU are preferred.

- Remote is a first class citizen; even before the pandemic, all founders and employees worked remotely. When we can do so again, we'll get everyone together in London a few times a year for valuable face to face time.

Apply here: https://apply.workable.com/overleaf/j/9770A6B1D8/

I think it would be interesting to try some of the methods for approximately solving MDPs on this game to see how complicated the machine learning model that approximates the value function (or state-action function) has to be to get reasonable accuracy. Maybe some simple rules would emerge...

If you are ever in London (possibly when travel is more normal again), I would happily buy you a beverage of your choice!

Thanks, I can vouch for the Bertsekas book. I'd also recommend:

Russell, Stuart, and Peter Norvig. "Artificial intelligence: a modern approach." (2002).

Sutton, Richard S., and Andrew G. Barto. Reinforcement learning: An introduction. MIT press, 2018. (As another commenter just pointed out.) They have a great example with a recycling robot.

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Overleaf builds modern collaborative authoring tools for scientists --- like Google Docs for Science. We have over eight million registered users from around the world. Our primary product is an online, real-time collaborative editor for papers, theses, technical reports and other documents written in the LaTeX markup language.

We are looking to hire an enthusiastic Product Manager to join one of our new multidisciplinary teams. You will take ownership of researching, understanding and delivering value for our more advanced LaTeX users and their workflows across our hosted SaaS and on-premise solutions. You will shape up your own roadmap to discover and address their needs, as well as define how to measure success. You will also lead on projects related to your area of expertise from start to finish.

Some reasons you'd enjoy working with us:

- We’re very much user-centric. We use mixed-methods research to inform our product decisions, assess our solutions and, in general, to keep in touch with our user base.

- You will have autonomy whilst being part of a cross-functional team of designers and developers, with whom you will work closely to help our users create their best work on Overleaf.

- Working hours can be flexible to your needs. Our core hours are 2pm--5pm UK time. Applicants in the US, Canada and UK/EU are preferred.

- Remote is a first class citizen; even before the pandemic, all founders and employees worked remotely. When we can do so again, we'll get everyone together in London a few times a year for valuable face to face time.

Please apply here: https://apply.workable.com/overleaf/j/B8C90201C9/