Friday Fun (03-Nov-2017 edition) – Ray Rischpater, KF6GPE

Idea of Order at Kyson Point, Brian Eno. Brian Eno needs no introduction; this is a nice short recent work he put out this year.
Deep Reinforcement Learning: Pong from Pixels. As promised, here’s a bit of a flashback on reinforcement learning, a neat older result on using reinforcement learning to train a network to play Atari video games. It’s important to recognize in this work, too, just like with the AlphaGo Zero work, that the resulting network does not understand what it’s doing. It can’t explain the rules, doesn’t have any abstractions. It’s just very, very, very good at pattern recognition.