OpenAI is releasing a new training environment, CoinRun, which provides a metric for an agent’s ability to transfer its experience to novel situations, and has already helped clarify a longstanding puzzle in reinforcement learning. CoinRun strikes a desirable balance in complexity: the environment is much simpler than traditional platformer games like Sonic the Hedgehog, but it still poses a worthy generalization challenge for state of the art algorithms.

The Human Eye

Note: This is just me thinking out loud “Amor Fati”. Love your fate. The concept of fate or destiny is simple. Your fate is decided, well even if it is, is it random? We are told to accept it, embrace it, love it. But, does it follow a pattern or…

Note: I wrote this essay as one of the final papers for a college history course. Thought it was a good read, got a good grade on it too, so I thought might as well share it with the world. The imperial system, playoffs, month before date. One might wonder…

Recently, Google published a report which featured a conversation between an AI and a human. Here’s an excerpt : Human: What is the purpose of life? Machine: To serve the greater good. Human: What is the purpose of living? Machine: To live forever. Human: What is the purpose of existence? Machine: To find out what…

Louis Van Gaal has been called many things throughout his controversial yet successful career. Call him a tactical genius or a philosopher, he will never truly be known for what he has actually done, whether it be accidentally or on purpose. …