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The introductory chapter of my Ph.D. dissertation contains a discussion of Arthur Samuels' 1950s/1960s work on training a checkers-playing program by self play and the pitfalls that brings. The article I posted describes a series of articles, this time on Go, that is by my read re-discovering the same lessons. Maybe one of these days I'll throw in on that one.
@abucci I didn't know you were into "machine learning" and did a PhD on the subject π³
@abucci I didn't know you were into "machine learning" and did a PhD on the subject π³
@prologic I studied evolutionary algorithms, coevolutionary algorithms to be more specific, and finished the PhD in 2007. I went into industry rather than stay in academia, and my interests have branched out since then, but yeah, that's a thing I did. A big component of coevolutionary algorithms involves strategy learning in adversarial settings, and two-player games make good test cases for research. I've gotten computers how to learn checkers, tictactoe, and nim by playing against themselves.....at the time I was working, the computational power available to me was not adequate to work on games like chess or Go using the techniques I was studying, but I did hope to get there some day and probably could now.
@abucci Ahh nice! π I tried to do a PhD in distributed systems but I never completed it π€¦ββοΈ
@abucci Ahh nice! π I tried to do a PhD in distributed systems but I never completed it π€¦ββοΈ
@prologic Is there a connection between what you were studying and how you've structured yarn.social?
@abucci Nope not at all. Yarn.social was born out of a desire to be able to conveniently "blog" without the burden of a full blog which is time consuming and someyhing I never managed to do very well/
@abucci Nope not at all. Yarn.social was born out of a desire to be able to conveniently "blog" without the burden of a full blog which is time consuming and someyhing I never managed to do very well/
@eaplmx Yeah well the rest of the back story is documented at About Yarn.social π
I _realised_ I actually did want some kind of micro-blogging / social media "thing", but I hated Twitterβ’ (had an account once upon a time, deleted, re-created, deleted, and finally deleted and never used it), and any other social media are basically "yuck", advertising centralised piles of garbage π
@eaplmx Yeah well the rest of the back story is documented at About Yarn.social π
I _realised_ I actually did want some kind of micro-blogging / social media "thing", but I hated Twitterβ’ (had an account once upon a time, deleted, re-created, deleted, and finally deleted and never used it), and any other social media are basically "yuck", advertising centralised piles of garbage π
Or in the case of Mastodon -- Too complicated to stand up. And ActivityPub, too hard to build against. So I (almost by accident, I was looking...) came across the Twtxt spec/format and voila π
Or in the case of Mastodon -- Too complicated to stand up. And ActivityPub, too hard to build against. So I (almost by accident, I was looking...) came across the Twtxt spec/format and voila π
@prologic You need to stop changing that page very often, every time I read it is different! π #joking #orItIsJustMyBadMemory
That said, having the option to micro-blog with an emoji, or mega-blog with a decent-sized post is cool IMO.