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Kevin Hughes
Personal blog · kevinhughes.ca/blogaiprogramming
Kevin Hughes writes One more robot learns to see, a personal blog at kevinhughes.ca about ai and programming. Since 2017, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 8 times, most often “TensorKart: self-driving MarioKart with TensorFlow”. The last post was in 2023, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Kevin Hughes's posts on training neural networks to drive or play games such as Mario Kart, GTA V and Euro Truck Simulator 2. Commenters cite them as examples of self-driving game experiments.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Kevin Hughes' blog
Most-linked posts?
- TensorKart: self-driving MarioKart with TensorFlow3 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2017-01-04
What Hacker News says?
The fact that you can even consider training an NN for driving after under an hour of setup is absurd. Did you see the "self driving mario kart"? [1] That's a lot of complexity just to try out some algorithms for driving. Is GTA V the same as setting up a rig which controls I/O for a real car? No. Of course not. You're not being fed data from LIDAR, which Waymo [Google X driving] seems quite invested in. [2] However…
Comment linking /blog/tensor-kart
on “Integrating GTA V into Universe”Submitted TensorKart: self-driving MarioKart with TensorFlow as a story · 631 points
HN discussionI've got my travel blog https://kevinandsam.travel that I made with Gatsby and my personal blog https://kevinhughes.ca using Jekyll.
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on “Ask HN: Share your personal site”Submitted An Over-Engineered Travel Blog as a story · 1 points
HN discussionIf you're interested I did something similar to what you describe for MarioKart http://kevinhughes.ca/blog/tensor-kart . Its a lot simpler than DOTA though
Comment linking /blog/tensor-kart
on “OpenAI at the Dota 2 World Championships”Submitted An Over-Engineered Travel Blog as a story · 1 points
HN discussionAnd there was also a Mario Kart 64 one before that. http://kevinhughes.ca/blog/tensor-kart
Comment linking /blog/tensor-kart
on “ChosunTruck – Euro Truck Simulator 2 autonomous driving solution”Can they get a polynomial regression to play mariokart from screenshots and button push data? https://www.kevinhughes.ca/blog/tensor-kart
Comment linking /blog/tensor-kart
on “Neural Networks Are Essentially Polynomial Regression (2018)”