connor @notwa@cybre.space

oh no what happened here

ok, now this is weird. an evolved algorithm decides to use the *mean* of a network's weights as its learning rate.

via: https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.03384

found a bug in this random connectivity algo where it tries to connect the same node twice, but it otherwise seems to work well. the bug is increasingly rare as node count increases and i have a couple hundred on each side in practice so it's not too big of a deal at this moment.

each file is individually compressed with Yaz0. i guess they wanted to keep all the 32-bit icons in one archive file (instead of splayed about in the filesystem) without having to load and uncompress all 0.6 MiB in memory

this expand/collapse carrot icon thing is kind of awful. not that the front page of github is really important but damn, i have so many questions

this is so goofy (the 4 combinators above the substation just implement an exponential moving average)

there we go

i downloaded a blueprint for a giant solar panel + accumulator block and i've been taking screenshots my bots build it in a pseudo-random order 'cause it looks kinda cool like that

oh yeah! i made a new plastic factory design for like the 10th time and i really like how it turned out this time. iirc there's only 36 pipes to ground here

okay, that's pretty good

i modified the script to dump the computation split into xmm registers, but the result is that half the instructions are just dedicated to loading the B vectors. didn't benchmark it though; realistically you wouldn't use the full function and just have subtypes for points/lines/planes etc where most of the terms are zero

the � made me laugh

for that last project i wound up writing some ugly python code that dumps giant ugly equations in C syntax

here's a slightly broken rotating cube, or at least the vertices of one

for when you just can't seem to get enough steel

whoa.

now, you may be wondering,

oh god is that really the nearest iron ore on this map seed? maybe i should've tried the mod that overhauls the resource generation

i've been busy

something like this