Deep Reinforcement Learning: Pong from Pixels

Re:Deep Reinforcement Learning: Pong from Pixels by keyle on Tuesday May 31, 2016 @10:39PM (#11811759)

Fascinating.

Many years ago, when I wanted to become a programmer and I didn't know anything about code, I used to fantasize and be amazed by programs. Code was like dark magic.

This is how I feel today about machine learning. Neural networks, liquid state machines. It's wonderful voodoo to my eyes.

I hope one day I get to work in that field, it seems so useful for solving big world problems. I have notice a definite rise in articles being written and shared on HN about it lately, that's great.

For those completely in the dark, I found this library to have great wiki pages about the basics of neural network programming. Great read, I recommend it. https://github.com/cazala/synaptic/wiki/Neural-Networks-101

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Re:Deep Reinforcement Learning: Pong from Pixels by jddjdbdbd3 on Wednesday June 01, 2016 @03:58AM (#11812757)

Oooh liquid state machines/reservoir computing, what delicious voodoo. Look up optical reservoir computing, what wonderful nonsense. Smash the thing into a million random pieces and look out for the pieces that happen to make your problem easy. Wht. But it works.

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