Robert Cunningham's Blog

An account of building poker models with hand-history data, range inference, imitation learning, PPO, and a real-money table test.

Solar prices are falling exponentially, and humanity will soon require huge batteries to store power generated during the day for use at night.

I have a solid understanding of microeconomics, but I don't know much about macroeconomics.

Solar cost is down linear on a log chart.

Reading, writing, and talking all implement the same interface: they act as a valve through which information can enter and exit your brain.

Think of any program which mangles source code.

Margaret I broke up with Dustin three months ago.

Before we get into the definition of primitive recursive functions, let me tell you the two surprising things about them. 1.

Julia's CUDA.jl is famous for letting you run pure Julia on GPUs.

Every day, you attend a horse race between three horses.

This semester I took 18.404 ("Theory of Computation").

I tie my raincoat around my waist shortly after we leave.

Hey!

What's a rock like granite really made of?

I've been deploying a bunch of web apps recently, and it turns out there's one pattern that's so common it might even be called classic.

This post explains call/cc, which is a control flow operator that works like a time machine.

Disclaimer: this is definitely not legal advice and I am neither a lawyer nor your lawyer.

My fourth semester at MIT is ending, which means it's time for me to take a moment to think about the classes that I took.

Imagine you're a trader in medieval Europe, looking for a way to defend yourself.

Here's something I realized last year: it's OK to be vegetarian because you don't like the idea of killing animals.

Today I cleaned out my childhood dresser.

Imagine a foreign planet with three legged chickens, two suns in the sky, exotic megafauna, and pink trees everywhere.

I realized over the summer that I still didn't have a clear picture of who I wanted to be.

Here's a realization I had the other day.

The Enneagram is a way of dividing personalities into 9 types, sort of like the MBTI.

I noticed yesterday that suppressing emotion has a bodily sensation.

Welcome!

The Stoics suggest that if you have something you really enjoy, you should give it up occasionally.

MIT has an introductory programming subject called 6.009 ("six double-oh nine").

> I have two kinds of problems, the urgent and the important.

When I was in middle school, I spent a ton of time playing video games.

Last year, I named a project 'Cydr' (read 'cite-r').

There's natural (almost foregone) conclusion that a university's acceptance rate is inversely proportional to its quality: low acceptance rate represents high quality, and vice versa.

I need Linux for development work, and Windows for software like Photoshop (sorry, Gimp).

Let's discuss a situation familiar to many high school students.