Merge pull request #466 from lutzvdb/patch-2

Update mid-way-recap.mdx
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Thomas Simonini
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- Action-value function: outputs the expected return if **the agent starts in a given state, takes a given action at that state** and then acts accordingly to the policy forever after.
- In value-based methods, rather than learning the policy, **we define the policy by hand** and we learn a value function. If we have an optimal value function, we **will have an optimal policy.**
There are two types of methods to learn a policy for a value function:
There are two types of methods to update the value function:
- With *the Monte Carlo method*, we update the value function from a complete episode, and so we **use the actual discounted return of this episode.**
- With *the TD Learning method,* we update the value function from a step, replacing the unknown \\(G_t\\) with **an estimated return called the TD target.**