A few weeks ago I wrote a post about the trickiness of understanding exactly what is going on inside of a neural network. By the time I hit “post”, I had edited out the part of my post that said I understood the principle of how they worked, and so it looked like I just
Month: March 2018
[This is a long post – the next couple I have planned are much shorter and less technical] In my last post, I shared an idea I’d had about wiring up some training data and using machine learning (ML) to beat my daughter in a simple strategy game called Mancala. In this post, I want
I remember at school when they started wording problems in ways that tried to match the real world. Fill in the blank questions like: 6 – 2 – 2 = ? were replaced with: “Billy has 6 sweets and gives 2 each to Bobby and Jill. How many sweets does Billy have left?” The same,
I just read an article about a clash between Elon Musk and Stephen Pinker. Not that I know either of these two gentlemen personally, but it probably does a good job of explaining their positions and the issues. The general gist is that Elon Musk has serious concerns about unchecked general AI doing various “bad
I’m not sure quite how I got on the Simple Programmer mailing list, but most weeks I get a few messages from the founder, John Sonmez. Lots of them are of the slightly annoying teaser variety that require you to read the whole thing until you get to the very last line. Or you have