Announcements:
| 04/22 | HW #2 is due Thursday May 1. |
| 01/24 | Here is the Einstein Quiz |
Articles/Links:
The Blondie24 author's site is www.natural-selection.com. You can find several of the papers referenced in the book there.
Course Materials:
04/24 - 405_neuralnet--Dr. Lawlor's
neural network evaluation on the graphics card (lecture notes). Gets close to 1m
checkerboard evaluations/second! Download:
.zip w/exe (640K)
.tar.gz (581K)
01/24 - Syllabus
01/24 - Schedule
01/24 - Project
Old Announcements:
| 03/06 | Seth found an interesting visualization of the search tree for Chesss at turbulence.org. |
| 02/05 | HW#1 is due Tuesday 02/19 at the start of class. Write a feed-forward neural network solver to use as a board evaluation function. Your program should be able to generate a network of any size. Input to your program should be NL1, NL2, NL3, ..., NLN, which are the number of nodes in each layer. Your network should be fully connected from one layer to another. Test your program with NL1=32, 40, 10, NL4=1 (the original Blondie24 network) and something with at least 6 layers and at least 200 nodes. Test with random board inputs and determine the number of board evaluations you can do per second. Benchmark your code to determine where your bottlenecks are. |