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I had the same lack, so I walked myself through it from the very start: https://brianberns.github.io/01-SineWaves.html

I built a machine learning project to play the card game Hearts at a superhuman level.

I read this with pleasure, right up until the bit about the ants. Then I saw the note from myself at the end, which I had totally forgot writing seven years ago. I probably first e…

Thanks! I'm glad to see I'm not the only one who went down this rabbit hole. :) I considered parallelizing my solution as well, but the problem is that it only gives a linear speed…

Particle Lenia is awesome. I did an online version that you can interact with here: https://brianberns.github.io/ParticleLenia/

I made a game out of creating proofs without words: https://brianberns.github.io/Tactix/

Yes, I use F# with TorchSharp to do machine learning. My most recent project is a Hearts AI that is quite good. Here are some links: * https://github.com/brianberns/Hearts * https:…

These are indeed very similar. Thanks for the link! The math is a bit over my head, but this formulation seems more difficult than the one I'm familiar with. For example, x^2 is re…

This idea comes from a functional pearl called "Power Series, Power Serious" [0], which is well worth reading. I implemented the same thing myself in F#. [1] [0]: https://citeseerx…

I translated this to F# for my own edification. It's more verbose, but perhaps easier to understand for non-Haskellers. https://github.com/brianberns/AnnotatedStack

FWIW, you might like this: https://github.com/brianberns/FYampaSynth

Did you read the linked paper? They consider this possibility and reject it.

Using media statements to sway public opinion is… a totally normal thing for organizations to do.

To me, F# is the pragmatic functional language with the most appeal, but being on .NET maybe it’s not even niche.

Unless I’m misunderstanding something, the company’s software is already open source ( https://github.com/replit ), so cloning it is perfectly reasonable. If there’s any dispute he…

A big one I'd add: Ability to gather requirements from a non-technical user, product owner, or subject-matter expert.

18 out of 1000 = “teeming with scams”? It’s a real problem, but the headline is sensationalized.

Parsing his sentence for tiny nuances like that isn't very helpful IMHO, but I'll indulge you. His exact words are "these differences may explain". He doesn't say "these difference…

That’s why I used the word “suggested”, which is exactly what he did, in a section prominently titled “Possible non-bias causes of the gender gap in tech”.

He suggested that biological differences between the sexes (rather than bias/discrimination) are the reason why women are underrepresented in the tech industry. It’s not hard to un…

It’s nothing like that. If you want a modern analogy, it’s like the moderators of a subreddit abandoning it, and the reddit admins deciding to keep it going anyway. It violates the…

Yes, I can see that it’s a technical violation of the policy. On the other hand, OP explicitly abandoned the channel and then cried “abuse” when the administrator stepped in to res…

I don’t know anything about IRC, but it seems more benign that that: the person who ran ##hntop abandoned it for another platform, so the guy who runs its sister channel, ##hnnew, …