Gemini* and Gopher

• Personal/Opinions

  • fear of everything

    the sweet words 
    trying to escape 
    on the page, out in the world
    I stop
    out of fear 
    but of what exactly
    I ask myself
    

• Technology and Free Software

  • Posting from the command line

    Nobody needs to read this, so nobody's life but mine is worse if it doesn't work.

    Of course, if it does work I'll have another to smile. Which is nice.

  • Teaching Drones to Play Tag Like a Puppy Could Deliver a Big Boost in Autonomy

    Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology and Sandia National Laboratories have taught drones to play a game of tag via reinforcement learning — with a view to improving how autonomous systems can respond to rapid changes in environment during pursuit, evasion, or coordination.

    "Reinforcement learning is just beginning to be used in commercial robotics," says project lead Spencer Jenson of the team's work. "The really nice thing about reinforcement learning is you can ignore a lot of extremely complex math — that’s probably slightly wrong anyway — and just get a best-effort algorithm that is going to be more flexible in rapidly changing scenarios. Reinforcement learning is a simulation-based guidance technique. We really like reinforcement learning because that behavior can be very hard to optimally program, but is something that reinforcement learning can just learn how to do optimally. It makes the complex simple."

  • Internet/Gemini

    • ♑︎ An Answer of E-Mail

      It pointed out, just how… well, unsignificant the geminispace is compared to the big web. The chances of spambots and the likes hitting us here should just be so much smaller. And thus, I felt enbravent. (🤫 I've used it, thus it's a real word now.)