Ted-Writes

Ted tries to make Tianshou work with PyBullet

I don’t think it’s working quite yet, but maybe next time?

And also a python package called Tianshou.

What’s up with Ted?

Howdy! My name is Ted, I’m a squid, I write stuff sometimes. I don’t post enough on this website, so I wanted to share what’s goin’ on in my life right now. It’s good, it’s bad, it’s ugly. The good? I was accepted as a PhD student at the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology! Wow! A few years ago I studied abroad in Tokyo, and now I’m excited to study in Okinawa too. The bad? Given the…

Slender Man vs the Dalai Lama: What’s a tulpa?

I gotta listen to more Monster Talk, I like these folks!

Gotta reinforce this learning! Now I’m learning the actor-critic method.

Phantom limbs, non-limb phantoms

This episode has nothing to do with Venture Bros, but you should watch that too, haha.

I taught my computer to play PONG with reinforcement learning!

It’s pretty good at PONG, too! Whoo!

Happy Father’s Day!

This week’s talking-squid video-essay is about stuff I watched about dads, WITH my dad!

This week’s talking-squid video-essay is about Reinforcement Learning!

I’m not very good at it yet, but I’m still exploring. That’s a very important part of reinforcement learning!

Why do we write/enjoy disturbing content like Kaiji and The Reflecting Skin?

Probably to minimize surprise or something, because we’re bored!

This week’s talking-squid video-essay is short, comparing Charles Darwin to Toriko and Pikmin’s Louie!

Science is weird.

Squids don’t like giraffes

Here’s my video explaining exactly why

More on Friston’s Free Energy

I still don’t completely understand what I’m talking about, but I understand it more than I did last time!

Retsuko, Mima, Bjork, Applejack

My latest talking-squid video-essay starts cute and gets more and more awful!