To evaluate the lower bound:

\begin{equation} \alpha_{a}^{k+1} (s) = R(s,a) + \gamma \sum_{s’}^{} T(s’|s,a) \alpha_{a}^{k}(s’) \end{equation}

we are essentially sticking with an action and do conditional plan evaluation of a policy that do one action into the future

The bloch sphere is a sphere encoding all possible probabilities of a qubit shared between two axis, \(|u\big>\) and \(|d\big>\).

You will notice that its a unit sphere, in which any magnitude has size \(1\). Hence, probabilities would result as projected onto each of the directions.

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Prompt

Beauty: discuss Morrison’s treatment of the idea of beauty. From what, where, or whom does this notion come? What effect does it have on the way one perceives the world? On the way others perceive an individual?

How does beauty (the acquisition of it, the lack of it, or the presence of it) determine one’s fate in America? Is beauty a necessarily fixed entity or does it fluctuate at the whim of society? How much or to what extent does one’s perception of beauty contribute to one’s sense of self-worth?