Andreas Thiele

Feb 19, 2019

A self-learning Atari Dragster bot in Python

This post will cover a little journey of mine involving a game from 1980. The game is incredibly short, and the best players in the world will finish it in slightly more than 5.5 seconds. And as you might have guessed, this is the Dragster game for Atari 2600. Dragster is…

Machine Learning

17 min read

Aug 12, 2018

Obfuscating passwords using prime numbers and modular arithmetic

Some time ago I needed a complex password. However, I also wanted it to be something that I can remember. What’s easier to remember, “Password123456789” or “Uz8!;JNEw.B>vS?Q2”? So I decided to to put together my own obfuscater. Just for the fun of it. My requirements were: Algorithm should run quickly …

Security

9 min read

Obfuscating passwords using prime numbers and modular arithmetic

Aug 6, 2018

Generating jokes with machine learning: An Irishman walks out of a bar. He was brought to the closest hospital quickly

Recently I came across a public dataset on GitHub containing about 200,000 jokes from different sources. Well, mostly it’s reddit, but also a few other sites. From this dataset, I put together a small Python script in less than 100 lines to create machine-generated jokes, like the title of this…

Machine Learning

5 min read

Jun 23, 2018

Building your own No Limit Texas Hold’em poker bot in Python

Some time ago I came across Libratus, a bot made by Carnegie Mellon for playing heads up (1 vs 1) no limit hold’em. Libratus proved its worth by beating some of the world’s best poker players. I came to wonder just how difficult it would be to create a bot…

Python

6 min read