The enthralling tale of the lizard within Introduction It is very difficult to evolve by altering the deep fabric of life; any change there is likely to be lethal. But fundamental change can be accomplished by the addition of new systems on top of old ones. Carl Sagan - The... [Read More]

Genetic Algorithms Introduction I have called this principle, by which each slight variation, if useful, is preserved, by the term Natural Selection. Charles Darwin $-$ The Origin of Species In 1859, the English naturalist Charles Darwin put forth his now Theory of Evolution in a book entitled “On the Origin... [Read More]

Bayesian thinking and the nature of learning Introduction Let us image to ourselves the case of a person just brought forth into this world and left to collect from his observation of the order and course of events what powers and causes take place in it. The Sun would, probably,... [Read More]

DQN to play Space Invaders Introduction When we think about the nature of learning, and how humans and animals discover the structure of the world, we find that it is more like a trial-and-error process than anything else. In fact, we are not being told how to act or what... [Read More]

Generative Adversarial Networks For Outlier Detection Introduction The problem we are going to address in this post is that of outlier detection, which is the identification of observations that raise suspicions by differing significantly from the majority of the ordinary data. Applications are countless: from fraud detection, to health monitoring... [Read More]