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Diving into Evolutionary Strategies

In a recent project I've had the chance to work with 'self-learning agents'. While an easy way to go is to just take a common A3C library and use that, I wanted to explore evolutionary strategies (ES). They piqued my interest because of simplicity, and the

Invoice Manager - The return of

Earlier last year, I had spoken about the way we manage our invoices with our amazing invoice generator. With it's increased popularity on google it's ready for an update. Now get ready for its long-awaited, by me, successor. *drum rumble*. Invoice Manager 🎉! A better, faster and

Yet another guide to Neural Networks

This is a theoretical introduction to Neural Networks. This introduction is meant to help gain intuition and help out with common issues. Not to get you going with any framework in particular. [Disclaimer of problem classification] The fundamental theory Neural networks are but transformations Recommended: You can create and test

Generalized 'parallel' popcnt

For a recent project I was looking to use Bloom filters to verify a efficient serialized structures (receiver can verify if they have the correct arbitrary deserialization). Now popcnt is a quite common function; it's available on many architectures as a single instruction. It counts the amount of

Analysing 'Choose your own adventure' books

A recent interest of mine has become analysing Choose your own adventure books. I've never read the original choose your own adventure books, but got introduced to it because of an upcoming project. There are quite a few interesting things to observe in these books without even going

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