At the end of the previous post, I asked how I know any of this works. The honest answer starts with failure. Getting Boardbarian working meant spending most of my time staring at wrong, often bewi...

I enjoy board games, but they are often complex, with many rules and rule interactions to keep track of. I’ve been in gaming sessions where I spent more time puzzling over the specific wording of a...

Imagine trying to build a face identification system that can recognize any face on Earth, not just some fixed set of faces. New faces appear every day, and there’s no way to include all of them du...

When training neural networks, the choice and configuration of optimizers can make or break your results. A particularly subtle pitfall is that PyTorch’s weight_decay parameter on many adaptive opt...