Joe Antognini

In this article we’ll learn how to train a neural network to play Tic-Tac-Toe using reinforcement learning in Jax.

A few years ago I outlined the so-called “triviality argument” that consciousness cannot be reduced to the process of computing a particular kind of computer program.

Here in the northern hemisphere the vernal equinox just passed and the days are quickly getting longer.

Spend enough time in the tech world and you will sooner or later find that it is a common article of faith that computers will one day gain consciousness.

The paradox Stein’s paradox is among the most surprising results in statistics.

I’ve been using Purism’s Librem 13 laptop as my primary personal laptop for just over a year now.

Voting is an odd thing.

Sunday, February 10, 2019 began as a wonderful day.

About a year ago I finished up a year of doing machine learning research at Google as a Google AI Resident.

Tensorflow Estimators handle much of the boilerplate of training a neural network like saving checkpoints and summaries, running the training loop, periodically evaluating on the validation set, and so on.

Tensorflow was built first and foremost as a Python API in a Unix-like environment.

In the last post we built a static C++ Tensorflow library on Windows.

Suppose we have a pair of stars orbiting each other in a binary system.

I discussed in a previous article one of the most important discoveries in all of astronomy — the discovery of dark energy.

There are many ways to give bad talks, but one guaranteed way to make your talk worse is to add a “Thank You” slide at the end.

Although there is strong evidence that nearly all stars are born in open clusters, it is clear that open clusters do exist for a very long time.

Among the most important developments in cosmology was the discovery at the tail end of the twentieth century of the accelerating expansion of the universe.

In our look at Jeans’s 1919 paper in this post we derived the eccentricity distribution of a population of thermalized binaries.

Scott Tremaine’s contribution to a retrospective series on the work of the French dynamicist Michel Hénon inspired me to do a review of an interesting problem in dynamics.

One of the most beautiful results in dynamics is the thermal eccentricity distribution.