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Show HN: A competition for small neural networks that play strategy games

25 pointsby 9h agotinybrains.dev
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9h agoHN ↗

15yrs back I participated in "Google Ants AI Challenge 2011", an ai programming competition, hosted by the University of Waterloo, and I ranked #127 (#1 in my country). The competition gave me a huge learning oppurtunity where developers across the world came to a forum and discussed various techniques.

Now, I've built a similar platform to bring back the fun of building a small neural network that can play the game well. Neural Network optimization seems to be much more fun.

Plz share your feedback to improve the platform and add more games.

5h agoHN ↗

I remember a game on Steam called Tiny Brains, great couch co-op.

7h agoHN ↗

This looks fun. How small are the networks you're aiming for?

1h agoHN ↗

the network size brackets are in TFA:

    nano up to 16 KiB
    micro up to 128 KiB 
    mini up to 1 MiB 
    small up to 8 MiB 
    large up to 64 MiB