Cassville Checkers is a marble racing board game that has been played by my wife's family for generations. I used Claude Code to build an RL environment and web interface for the game.

In 2019, Rich Sutton authored an essay entitled “The Bitter Lesson”, where he made the observation that general purpose methods that leverage computation eventually win over bespoke solutions that incorporate human domain knowledge. The essay has been the source of debate and evoked both positive and negative reactions.

Within the …

Ben Recht got my attention with a tweet about his blog post "The Higgs discovery did not take place.” I’m generally a fan of Ben’s writing, but I think he’s off base on a number of issues, and I’ll explain why. [Updated Oct 23rd, 2024]

Ben's …

We held the third Machine Learning for Physical Sciences workshop at NeurIPS2020 on December 11, 2020.

• Website: Machine Learning for Physical Sciences
• Some live tweets: #ML4PS2020

We had more than 150 posters and more than 200 people attend the poster session on Gather Town. Gather Town worked surprisingly well.

We …

We held ML4Jets at NYU January 15-17, 2020. We had about 115 in attendance.

Our NeurIPS 2019 workshop on Machine Learning and the Physical Sciences was a big success!

Check out the website: https://ml4physicalsciences.github.io

Talks and videos are online: 1 2 3 4

Photos here