Last week I published a post about creating a simple actor that observed its environment and used hard-coded sense/action pairs to reach a goal. This week's objective is to have the actor learn to build its own actions library from scratch. If it's stuck it
Assuming you know very little about machine learning (like me) and you're a self-starter (also like me), then you'll appreciate this gradual ground-up approach to understanding and building intelligence. Let's start out with a simple world. A maze. It is represented as a 2D
I've been iterating on a thought experiment that aims to answer the question: "What makes a winner?" Within any social context, there is the "playing field" - the set of rules and assumptions about an individual's status in society. Owning property, for
I had the idea to make a random word generator while writing my stories. After all, naming is hard. What's a convincing name for a novel city? Or a person? Or a food? I'm no neural network genius, so I created a hash-table approach to figuring
Just wanted to share a little message I found at the top of the SQLite import header: 2001-09-15 The author disclaims copyright to this source code. In place of a legal notice, here is a blessing: May you do good and not evil. May you find forgiveness for yourself and
I'm trying to rebuild my random song app - the one that I naively build for the 1000 Albums project. Since then, a lot has changed and it's possible to build both macOS and iOS apps in the same target in Xcode. So I thought -
I just went to update my Gravatar, you know, that erstwhile avatar hub made by Matt Mullenweg (and team) to make sure your social media presence was uniform. It's still used? But I'm not sure by whom. In any case, I found one of my old
I've been working on my streaming setup in OBS. Unlike most people, I'm not recording games on my PC. I'm using a CamLink 4K to send output from my Xbox to my Mac laptop. I have an HDMI splitter, and all my cables are
Is it possible to make a video game entirely from neural networks? If it were, the question would be, is it a more cost-effective or engineering-light solution that could become the new Unity or Unreal Engine? My intuition is no. Neural networks can't. To provide evidence for that
I'll admit I have a love-hate relationship with Reddit. It starts by feeling a need for connection and going on Reddit, exploring communities, adding them to my homepage, and then becoming obsessed with curating more and more until I have a deluge of content that I need to
I just watched a strange video published by Figure, a company that builds humanoid robots. They partnered with OpenAI for the video to allow the robot to respond to a human's commands. The demo they showed was of a humanoid robot in front of a scene consisting of
I just moved to Austin, Texas and there's an author Austin Kleon who's local and wrote a few books - some of which I'm interested in. I'm reading Steal Like An Artist and curious to see what he has to say. Maybe