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mc0ps / nes.py
Created August 10, 2017 22:48 — forked from karpathy/nes.py
Natural Evolution Strategies (NES) toy example that optimizes a quadratic function
"""
A bare bones examples of optimizing a black-box function (f) using
Natural Evolution Strategies (NES), where the parameter distribution is a
gaussian of fixed standard deviation.
"""
import numpy as np
np.random.seed(0)
# the function we want to optimize
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mc0ps / min-char-rnn.py
Created August 10, 2017 07:45 — forked from karpathy/min-char-rnn.py
Minimal character-level language model with a Vanilla Recurrent Neural Network, in Python/numpy
"""
Minimal character-level Vanilla RNN model. Written by Andrej Karpathy (@karpathy)
BSD License
"""
import numpy as np
# data I/O
data = open('input.txt', 'r').read() # should be simple plain text file
chars = list(set(data))
data_size, vocab_size = len(data), len(chars)