Things I will Fail at in 2020

In this post I'll sketch out some vague outlines of a better life for the new year. I'll try to do this without hypocrisy. I'll likely fail.

State, Camera, Action!

In this post, I go back to basics with reinforcement learning and consider the stupidest form of intelligence.

Composition

This post looks at composition. It starts with Lego. It then looks at a theory of why deep neural networks work and how they could be trained. It ends on how brains may embody these theories.

Sounds & Silence

What can we learn about the brain from the common patterns in human-generated audio?

Locality & Hierarchy

Locality. It constrains with ubiquity. But why are we unable to see it?

Looking at Cortical Column Function with Jeff Hawkins

Ever since "On Intelligence", I've been a Jeff Hawkins fanboy. It takes a lot of guts to invest all your wealth into understanding the brain. But what are his recent theories?

Easy Audio/Video Capture with Python

It's difficult to obtain audio/video data in Python. You just want a numpy array but how do you get this? This post presents a number of Python classes to address this issue.

Making Proper Histograms with Numpy and Matplotlib

How do you build proper histograms in Python?

Bio-Inspired Robotics for Beginners

Modern "deep" learning approaches have problems. The need for training data. A lack of robustness. Are they doing everything in reverse?

Capturing Live Audio and Video in Python

In my robotics projects I want to capture live audio and video data in Python. To save you several days, this blog post explains how I go about doing this.