Cédric BelletinBiffuresBiffure #1: Hearthstone, Verhulst & exponential functions“Biffures” is French for crossing-outs; these short articles are light explorations, less involved discussions of topics that don’t form a…7 min read·Apr 5, 2021----
Cédric BelletinBiffuresFermat’s little theoremAn etymological and visual exploration of Fermat’s little theorem, one of the keys to understanding the RSA encryption algorithm.13 min read·Oct 18, 2019--2--2
Cédric BelletinBiffuresRL Course by David Silver (Lectures 8 & 9)We finish the series of lectures by David Silver and move on to implementation exercises3 min read·Apr 13, 2018--1--1
Cédric BelletinBiffuresRL Course by David Silver (Lectures 5 to 7)This is day 45 of my 60-day reinforcement learning challenge, and we continue the series of lectures by Deepmind’s David Silver.6 min read·Apr 13, 2018----
Cédric BelletinBiffuresRL Course by David Silver (Lectures 1 to 4)A summary of 15 hours into reinforcement learning5 min read·Mar 18, 2018--1--1
Cédric BelletinBiffuresNetwork sparsity and rectifiersWhere we learn why, despite being amazing on their own, linear and sigmoid neurons are not the self evident choice for neural networks6 min read·Mar 7, 2018--1--1
Cédric BelletinBiffuresAll the single neuronsWhere we learn that it takes one neuron to solve multilinear regressions and logistic regressions, which I thought were pretty advanced…5 min read·Feb 27, 2018----
Cédric BelletinBiffuresReinforcement learning, from 0 to something in 60 daysIn this series, I will attempt to learn something about reinforcement learning in a limited period of time, after work hours, with the…2 min read·Feb 26, 2018----
Cédric BelletinBiffuresPart 5: Hashing with SHA-256An overview of SHA-256, a standard secure hash function, as described in official document FIPS 180–4.5 min read·Jan 4, 2018--4--4
Cédric BelletinBiffuresPart 4: Bitwise PatternsA bitwise ops cheatsheet (¬, <<, >>, ROTR/L, +, ∧, ∨, ⊕)9 min read·Sep 8, 2016--1--1