brianberns

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Comment · 4 months ago

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

Show HN: Crushing Hearts with Deep CFR brianberns.github.io

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Comment · 10 months ago

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 encountered the article via HN back then as well. Thanks for publishing my thoughts!

Comment · 1 year ago

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 speedup, while the problem space increases exponentially. I decided to focus on pruning the search tree instead, and that seemed to work pretty well (after much thinking).

Solving the NY Times "Pips" game with F# github.com

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Comment · 1 year ago

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

Comment · 1 year ago

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

Comment · 1 year ago

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://github.com/brianberns/MinGptSharp

* https://github.com/brianberns/ModestGpt

* https://github.com/brianberns/DeepKuhnPoker

Comment · 1 year ago

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 represented as 0::0::2 instead of 0::0::1 (because 2! = 2) and x^3 is represented as 0::0::0::6 instead of 0::0::0::1 (because 3! = 6). Is there a benefit to that?

Comment · 1 year ago

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]