About 7 years ago, while still in high school, working as a web developer and studying psychology as a hobby, I stumbled upon an article about artificial neural networks. It was exciting. Right after I had finished reading it, I started looking for a theory of intelligence that can explain…

I think that Bitcoin is a piece of art. Blockchains, Proof-of-Work, Proof-of-Stake, all these crypto developments are awesome. Bitcoin has brilliant ideas and engineering behind it, with lots of well-rounded incentives baked-in to keep the network working. But, it’s practical technical limitations and poor design of socio-economic incentives leads to…

Reaching for simple explanations of everything about data — Data Science is a rapidly developing field originally based on statistics. It has become a lot wider over the past few decades due to exponentially growing amounts of data and computational resources, as well as the need to understand it deeper. Artificial intelligence and machine learning are very close to…

v1.0 — Abstract For years I’ve been looking for a theory that will unify my understanding of intelligence and related concepts. Among the ones I’d encountered most share some core ideas, so I’ve been trying to combine and distill them into a more formal and general framework. …

How can a neural network have chronological memory? — It’s crucial to know the chronological order of events to learn causality, to plan, to synchronize activities in societies and for many other reasons. …

While writing my last post on intelligence, I got into thinking if intelligence can exist without environment. Headcanon alert: I don’t really have an answer. Imagine an agent in a vacuum. Not strictly physical definition of vacuum, just an environment where this agent does not receive any inputs and its…

After seeing a story about next AI winter in google now, then multiple times in twitter, then similar questions have appeared on quora, I got a little confused. I think it gets much more attention than it deserves. Why? Let’s sort through. In general this story explains why next AI…

A few days ago google engineers posted a huge manual on how to build great ML products(and, by the way, a new TensorFlow on GCP specialization on coursera). These guys have a lot of experience in developing large-scale projects in production and they have written down their best practices. The…

Internet of Things is transforming world around us right now. We started with spreading of computers, tablets and smartphones. And now we can create small and low-cost chips to embed them in appliances, lamps, doors, windows and even toilets. …