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…

A while ago, at the time when I was (ludicrously, it seems) considering tic tac toe as a viable candidate for an AI project, it occurred to me that Checkers was a probably a better candidate. I don’t actually play games…

Before moving on to my next project, I thought a good segue would be to discuss the actual results of porting my NN to Python and some open issues that I have yet to resolve. In general, the port seems…

I just finished doing what I set out to do about a week ago. I took the my NN number-classifier and ported it over to Python. Here are my thoughts on the process and on Python itself. My Approach In…

From Wikipedia Grinding (gaming) In video gaming, grinding is performing repetitive tasks[1][2] for gameplay advantage… Grinding may be required by some games to unlock additional features such as level progression or additional items. For someone who’s not a professional developer, I’ve…

Having spent some time thinking through the trivial game of tic tac toe, I’ve now become interested in tackling some “real” game mechanics. Checkers is the one I have in mind. So naturally, I’m interested in the current state of…

As I was wrapping up the last week of my course, I stumbled upon a thread in the discussion forums started by one of the other students in the class who wanted to create a NN to play tic tac toe…

Right now, I am deeply immersed in the mechanics of machine learning — the math, the programming, the hardware, everything. It’s interesting that at my age I should be just diving into this sort of thing. But it didn’t come…