Jesse Hostetler, Dan Garmat, and I recently hacked on DeepMind's implementation of a neural network for the Arcade Learning Environment. The above video shows the agent learning to play a game called Breakout, in which the objective is to break bricks at the top of the screen using a ball …

I am just wrapping up at the IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing. My paper appears in the proceedings and I presented on Monday. This has been my first Human Computer Interaction (HCI) conference, so I have been exploring the differences and similarities from my AI and FOSS …

For our forthcoming paper at the IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing I built a visualization for testing and debugging optimization simulators and algorithms.

The visualization is built on d3js and runs in the web browser. If you visit mdpvis.github.io you can interact with a wildfire …