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Eric Jang announces he has been working on a from-scratch implementation of AlphaGo, the 2016 AI breakthrough that inspired him to enter deep learning.
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Seriously, people are harsh with this platform, but if you are careful with whom you follow, it is a constant stream of awesomness.
Eric Jang (@ericjang11): For the last few months I’ve been working on a from-scratch implementation of AlphaGo, a 2016 AI breakthrough that inspired me to get into deep learning. My casual understanding of AlphaGo was “search-augmented deep neural networks trained with self-play”, but I wanted to go
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