How a Hertfordshire research lab quietly transformed an iconic British staple food, and the complexion of the countryside – without anyone actually noticing My new book, Trade World, is out NOW. In an effort to try to nudge you into … Read more
This is the associated GitHub page of the Little Book of Reinforcement Learning. This book is a short introduction to Reinforcement Learning, from the basics to applied algorithms. In this repo, along with the book itself, you can find the … Read more
A warm welcome to ‘Portico,’ a literary quarterly edited by Micah Mattix. By Barton Swaim I can recall many confident predictions that print culture lay on the verge of death. A quarter-century ago, conventional wisdom held that ebooks, read on … Read more
Recent political events have pushed governments and organizations to seriously question their dependence on foreign-controlled software. The core issue is simple and uncomfortable: through automatic updates, a vendor can run any code, with any privileges, on your machine, at any … Read more
Plus: news. Detail of the cover for The Making of Prince of Persia (2020) Welcome! Thanks for checking in. It’s another Sunday issue of the Animation Obsessive newsletter, and this is the slate: 1. Animating in the early days of … Read more
On November 7, the Besenval Palace in Solothurn experienced an exceptional moment with the official opening of the museum « Der Kleine Prinz und seine Welt » dedicated to the Little Prince through the collection of Jean-Marc Probst. The event … Read more
plt.quiver(0, 0, v[0], v[1], angles=’xy’, scale_units=’xy’, scale=1, color=’r’, label=’v’) plt.quiver(0, 0, u[0], u[1], angles=’xy’, scale_units=’xy’, scale=1, color=’b’, label=’u’) plt.quiver(0, 0, combo1[0], combo1[1], angles=’xy’, scale_units=’xy’, scale=1, color=’g’, label=’2v + 3u’) plt.quiver(0, 0, combo2[0], combo2[1], angles=’xy’, scale_units=’xy’, scale=1, color=’m’, label=’-v + 4u’) … Read more
A tiny little JSON parsing library ~150 lines of C99 Zero-allocations with minimal state Error messages with line:column: location No number parsing: strtod, atoi? Handle them how you want No string parsing: bring your own unicode surrogate pair handling (or … Read more
A concise, beginner-friendly introduction to the core ideas of linear algebra. 1.1 Scalars and Vectors A scalar is a single numerical quantity, most often taken from the real numbers, denoted by $mathbb{R}$. Scalars are the fundamental building blocks of arithmetic: … Read more
Software is important to people. Most of us spend our workdays in front of computers. We use the computer in our pocket tens if not hundreds of times every day. The apps we use are almost exclusively mass-market, sold on … Read more