Last night, after working some more on my checkers algorithm, before going to bed I decided to unwind by playing a little Destiny 2. With checkers and Destiny 2 on my brain, I had a dream in which I was…

Andrej Karpathy’s Pong from Pixels has been my exemplar for implementing reinforcement learning. I find that in general, I’m following along with his approach, and I feel that conceptually, it’s making sense. But as I set out to actually create my…

So with these classifiers and unambiguous accuracy numbers when compared to ground truth, it’s dead simple to evaluate success. But what about this checkers game? Unlike the pong from pixels example, my game won’t be playing against a functioning, trained…

It’s been a while since I wrote about my checkers project. For a few weeks there, I was able to give it a lot of consideration because I was doing the first course in the Deep Learning specialization, Deep Neural…