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software changeling

Talking about Star Trek, AI and the future of software.

Oct 4, 2026 read

Differentiable Robotics

I really find this method of training policies really intersting.

Sep 29, 2026 read

Contrastive Loss

Some things i did to make 2 (or more) latent encoders talk to each other.

Sep 28, 2026 read

Extended Kalman Filters, intuitively

I keep coming back to the Extended Kalman Filter (EKF) every time I touch state estimation on a drone or a rover. It's one of those algorithms that looks like alphabet soup the first time you read it, but is actually a pretty simple idea wearing a trench coat of linear algebra.

Aug 6, 2026 read

GAE

Bias vs. Variance (When talking about Reinforcement Learning) The λ parameter is like a dial to balance bias and variance. This determines how quickly...

Mar 19, 2026 read
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