Working on this [0]

Trying to make the world’s smallest maze solving neural network. Why? Because it’s fun. Why aren’t you?

Current champion model is 14 bytes - it solves 96.5% of unseen mazes upto 21x21.

Try it yourself on the website. Also a work in progress write up at [1]

[0] - https://minimio.ai

[1] - https://github.com/con-dog/tiny-neural-network

[0] - https://github.com/con-dog/snibble/blob/master/README.md

Over-engineered word game

Checked it out, looks extremely cool, couldn't move in the beta playtest, will bookmark and check again later :)

Sorry, Try deleting “demo” from the url and it will take you to the tutorial (you will be blue)

Really interesting idea, had fun testing - tho tbh it gets repetitive and slow after a few minutes, power ups or other ways to interact with player would be cool.

Thanks for checking it out and I agree 100% with your conclusion - it was an insanely fun engineering problem to work on, but I forgot to make the actual game fun lol.

I know that for my next game! Next one will be fun not interesting :)

Reflecting on my projects [0]

[0] - https://github.com/con-dog

Neural networks | Game engines | Games | LLM Benchmarks | Graphics

  Location:        New Zealand
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  Résumé/CV:       https://github.com/con-dog
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link: https://github.com/con-dog

For the record I don't consider technologies that important these days, moreso what you can do (see the link).

But C/C#/JavaScript/TypeScript/Python/Docker/Azure/Kubernetes

Ray Bradbury has some great ideas, but I hate his writing style. It’s far too flowery, he’s on a spectrum that contains Hemingway at one extreme, and Bradbury near the other.

I prefer Hemingway. Writing style at least.

This is such a surprising comment! Bradbury's style is very sparse and plain, and much closer to Hemingway's end of the spectrum than to the other. Where would you put, say, Nabokov, Melville, or Lovecraft?

Haven’t read Nabokov, but Lovecraft is on the Bradbury end of the spectrum, but I love Lovecraft lol

To each his own, I suppose.

I particularly like Bradbury's style. It reads very prose poetic. One of my favourite is Dandelion Wine, which you will probably hate.

Interestingly, I had the exact opposite reaction - I enjoyed the writing itself, but didn't find the premise all that interesting.

My friend, we exist at opposite ends of a spectrum ha

Honestly I'm just tired of the doom and gloom. I should probably keep in mind this was written in 1950.

Try some Arthur C Clarke, less doom and gloom

Childhood's End by Clarke is quite high on my list of grim endings for the human race

his magnum opus Explode Eath and most of humanity, because of bureocracy apathy, in the first 10 pages. ...Oh I see now. nvm.

As "Forever and the Earth" shows it wasn't just stylistic, but essential.

Ecclesiastes 1:1~11 (where that title is from) talks about futility, using only verses that are hopeful. (but that is lost on newer translations because the language was simplified. see legacy standard or Brenton's Septuagint for the effect)

How about a blog that contains its entire source code inline in the blog itself? [0]

[0] - https://mjwg6zy.blog/

Such that copy pasting its contents reconstructs the blog byte for byte

This is cool - I love quines!

Heh thank you, more to come. Cool blog btw

Very simple tech stack ! Basically just JavaScript/typescript and leveraging LLMs to help with scaffolding - nothing special

Thank you I will update the frontend with a legend and some better alignment understanding with the visuals.

As a quick note, they are mostly immediate environment observations like “is there a wall in front of me, to my left, to my right” etc or “was my last move illegal”.

But every model is different, some have very rich input information like “there is a wall diagonal to my front right” and some only have very coarse inputs.

Because I have trained over 2000 models now I need to go back and get an LLM to label the inputs for me, definitely not a manual task :)

I will be reading this one asap, my goal is as small as possible ! So far 14 bytes has been hard for me to beat

Thank you for your feedback!

I definitely will be - my experimentation outpaced my understanding a bit, so I’m slowing down to understand and verify my exact claims.

One of the most fun projects I have ever worked on and I’m excited to share the discoveries.

What kind of postmortem would you like to see? A blog or a hackernews post? And what interests you the most? Is it the compression, the visuals, the neural networks, the discoveries, or something else?

I will update the frontend based on the icon feedback for sure :) thank you!