Monthly Archives: September 2009

Monte Carlo AIXI

Posted on 18 September, 2009 by Shane

While I was visiting Marcus Hutter at ANU a month or so ago, I got talking to one of his students, Joel Veness, who’s working on making computable approximations to AIXI. Joel has a background in writing Go algorithms so … Continue reading →

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Tokyo: A Cython BLAS wrapper for fast matrix math

Posted on 15 September, 2009 by Shane

Prototyping mathematical code in Python with the Scipy/Numpy libraries and then switching to Cython for speed often works well, but there are limitations. The main problem that has been bugging me recently is the speed of matrix function calls. What … Continue reading →

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