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“biffures” is French for crossing-outs; here you will find semi-random explorations and incomplete ideas that generally involve math and computer programming
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Cédric Bellet
Apr 5, 2021
Biffure #1: Hearthstone, Verhulst & exponential functions
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Cédric Bellet
Oct 17, 2019
Fermat’s little theorem
An “etymological” and visual exploration of Fermat’s little theorem, one of…
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Cédric Bellet
Apr 13, 2018
RL Course by David Silver (Lectures 8 & 9)
We finish the series of lectures by David Silver and move on to implementation exercises
Lecture 8: Integrating Learning and Planning
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RL Course by David Silver (Lectures 5 to 7)
RL Course by David Silver (Lectures 5 to 7)
This is day 45 of my 60-day reinforcement learning challenge, and we continue the series of lectures by Deepmind’s David Silver.
Cédric Bellet
Apr 12, 2018
RL Course by David Silver (Lectures 1 to 4)
RL Course by David Silver (Lectures 1 to 4)
A summary of 15 hours into reinforcement learning
Cédric Bellet
Mar 18, 2018
Network sparsity and rectifiers
Network sparsity and rectifiers
Where we learn why, despite being amazing on their own, linear and sigmoid neurons are not the self evident choice for neural networks
Cédric Bellet
Mar 6, 2018
All the single neurons
All the single neurons
Where we learn that it takes one neuron to solve multilinear regressions and logistic regressions, which I thought were pretty advanced…
Cédric Bellet
Feb 26, 2018
Reinforcement learning, from 0 to something in 60 days
In this series, I will attempt to learn something about reinforcement learning in a limited period of time, after work hours, with the…
Cédric Bellet
Feb 26, 2018
Part 5: Hashing with SHA-256
Part 5: Hashing with SHA-256
An overview of SHA-256, a standard secure hash function, as described in official document FIPS 180–4.
Cédric Bellet
Jan 3, 2018
Part 4: Bitwise Patterns
Part 4: Bitwise Patterns
A bitwise ops cheatsheet (¬, <<, >>, ROTR/L, +, ∧, ∨, ⊕)
Cédric Bellet
Sep 8, 2016
Part 3: Bitwise OR, AND’s sibling
Part 3: Bitwise OR, AND’s sibling
A review of the bitwise OR function (∨ or |) and of its relation to AND.
Cédric Bellet
Aug 9, 2016
Part 2: The beauty of bitwise AND (∧ or &)
Part 2: The beauty of bitwise AND (∧ or &)
Exploring and visualizing the many facets of the bitwise AND operation
Cédric Bellet
Aug 3, 2016
Part 1: Bits 101
Part 1: Bits 101
A contract on naming conventions before diving into bitwise operations and algorithms
Cédric Bellet
Jul 28, 2016
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