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Posted in Artificial Intelligence, Artificial Intelligence, Software on May 20th, 2008
Recently, I programmed a neural network that (successfully) learned to optimize its payoff while playing blackjack. However, I did it in C. A little research showed that most people don’t use C or C++ for AI applications, and that functional languages (as well as those that have internal support for the use of symbols) were [...]
Posted in Artificial Intelligence on May 8th, 2008
Soon, this post will contain information about the foundation of simple perception neural networks and more, but for now, it is just an excuse to post an image I made of the McColloch and Pitts Unit. From this image, and a little knowledge, we can deduce that there are 3 major operations that should be [...]
Posted in Artificial Intelligence, Software on May 8th, 2008
Recently, in one of my favorite classes (AI) we were all assigned to write a bit of software that was able to solve a problem that involved rolling a die. Here is the description of the problem: In a rolling-die maze, you typically start with a standard six-sided die with a given face facing up [...]