Chaos Server

"Looks for what's there. Not what you want to be there. You will see the truth soon enough." - Sherlock Holmes (Enola Holmes) It’s decades ago, and young me is in a theology class where the teacher explained essay writing by saying, “your opening paragraph should contain your thesis statement. I have found a good way to do this is to say, ‘the thesis of this essay is…’” My heart sank. I wrote excellent essays in school. I honed my craft by reading exceptional essays, by reading about exceptional essays, and by asking exceptional people to review my essays. Including a sentence in your opening paragraph stating the thesis is not how an exceptional essay is written. If you do that, you have done something immensely gross and wrong. The thesis of this essay is to explain how AI writes truly unexceptional essays. I was recently searching for work, finding openings, applying, and I used the experience as an opportunity to figure out how AI could help me along in this proce...

You get beautiful designs when you build simple things that compose correctly. - Chris Lattner I’ve been ramping on on writing software for AI, and Python is the language of AI. So I thought to myself, could I write a Cribbage Engine in Python, wrap it in Gymnasium and then use Stable Baselines to build an RL agent that could play cribbage well through re-enforced learning. Welp, I’m not there yet, because I built the cribbage engine and started doing some statistical analysis and have gone done the rabbit whole of programmatic cribbage and statistical regression. Cribbage holds a special place in my heart. When I first met Mrs.Chaos somehow the topic of cribbage came up and we learned that both of us had played a lot of cribbage. It is not a popular card game. She beat me at cribbage... a lot. So, all that time ago, being the nerd I was (am?) I wrote a little engine in JavaScript where you put in the six cards in your hand and it would do a very basic calculation to tell what to d...