My personal experience with Neural Networks is that everything became much clearer when I started ignoring full-page, dense derivations of backpropagation equations and just started writing code…(I don’t believe [a lot of math] is necessary and it can sometimes even…

Yesterday, I put some of the plumbing in place to eventually run a checkers game for one or two AIs. Specifically, the board is represented, the fundamentals of pieces are represented, and the system has a way, for any given…

I’ve begun in earnest to build the Checkers AI, and right now for the most part that means plumbing. Before I even get to how this NN is going to work, I need to have the framework in place that…

The one thing that was disappointing in the results of the Python Port of my NN was the time it took to learn the training set. I wasn’t sure what the reason was, and had speculated that it might have…

As I mentioned, my checkers-playing AI is on hold until I have a few more viable tools available to do what’s necessary. However, since no matter what I do, I can’t stop thinking about the problem, it occurs to me…

In addition to coursework and reading, I’ve continued to think about checkers—because it seems both challenging and tractable, and I have the basic domain knowledge. These supports two main short term goals for the next 6 months or so. The…