Month: December 2018
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Does machine learning really involve data?
Many definitions of machine learning start by proclaiming it uses data, to learn. I want to challenge this, or remind us where the term originally came from and consider why the meaning has shifted. For a long time machine learning seemed to be a new…
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Does machine learning really involve data?
Many definitions of machine learning start by proclaiming it uses data, to learn. I want to challenge this, or remind us where the term originally came from and consider why the meaning has shifted. For a long time machine learning seemed to be a new…
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Adding CircleCI builds
Just added CircleCI builds to my greylstd and SIPFwd projects.
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Adding CircleCI builds
Just added CircleCI builds to my greylstd and SIPFwd projects.
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New home page design
After years of getting around to it, I have redesigned my home page at artificialworlds.net. It’s basically intended to make me look clever or productive or interesting or something. Alternatively, it gives you somewhere to find that thing you know I m…
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Code Like a Girl T-shirts
There are lots of people missing from the programming world: lots of the programmers I meet look and sound a lot like me. I’d really like it if this amazing job were open to a lot more people. One of the weird things that has happened is that somehow w…
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Guaranteed Copy Elision Does Not Elide Copies
This post is also available at the Microsoft Visual C++ Team Blog C++17 merged in a paper called Guaranteed copy elision through simplified value categories. The changes mandate that no copies or moves take place in some situations where they were pre…
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Poor performance in Chrome (especially on mobile) – caused by SVG background images
I have spent the last few hours investigating abysmal performance in my latest little game project Cross The Road. Firefox was fine, but Chromium and Chrome, especially on mobile, was rendering at about three frames per second. When I stopped using SVG…
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I wrote a book about Genetic algorithms and Machine learning
I’ve written a book pulling together some of my previous talks showing how to code your way out of a paper bag using a variety of machine learning techniques and models, including genetic algorithms. It available at Amazon and you can downloa…
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I wrote a book about Genetic algorithms and Machine learning
I’ve written a book pulling together some of my previous talks showing how to code your way out of a paper bag using a variety of machine learning techniques and models, including genetic algorithms. It available at Amazon and you can downloa…