Bram CohenHow to make an adversary resistant neural networkI previously pontificated about the difficulties of making a neural network robust in the adversarial model and a general approach to…3 min read·Jan 31, 2021----
Bram CohenYou’re doing computer chess game commentary wrongComputer chess games are fun to play over, even if it’s just because you know that these are the best chess playing entities in the world…4 min read·Jan 24, 2021----
Bram CohenGardens of EdenSince John Horton Conway passed a few days ago now might be a good time to write up my thoughts on gardens of eden in his life automata.2 min read·Apr 16, 2020--1--1
Bram CohenNeural Networks as we know them are fundamentally flawed.This paper gives some technical attacks on neural networks.7 min read·Sep 13, 2019----
Bram CohenPlay much better Poker with this one weird trickI’m going to propose a completely insane way of playing better Poker, but hear me out.3 min read·Jun 29, 2019----
Bram CohenAlphazero’s real secret sauce is MCTSAlphazero defeated Stockfish in a series of remarkable games marking, according to the common interpretation, a turning point where…6 min read·Dec 21, 2017--5--5
Bram CohenClean Up Your StateThere’s one overriding principle of doing imperative programming safely, which experienced programmers should all have long since learned…2 min read·Jun 23, 2016--1--1
Bram CohenDonald Trump is a DoucheI’ve configured my browser to replace all instances of the word ‘leadership’ with ‘douchery’. While this makes business commentary much…4 min read·Apr 25, 2016----
Bram CohenDouble Billing is not ‘Healthy Competition’Let’s say that you’re running a company and want to create some internal competition between teams to see which ones can perform better…3 min read·Feb 13, 2016--11--11
Bram CohenWhiny RagequittingI characterized Mike Hearn’s farewell essay as a ‘whiny ragequit’. I did this because it is, well, a whiny ragequit. He attempted a hostile…3 min read·Jan 16, 2016--16--16