The Horizon: Random Shit

 This blog is my second blog, and also the first in this series. The series is named "How to implement the NEAT Algorithm from Scratch". For this, you only need the basic requirements that are: 1. Basic coding knowledge. (in any language, I use java here) 2. At least one proper read of the official NEAT Paper by Kenneth O. Stanley. 3. Some knowledge of a neural network. And you are ready ! In every part of this blog I will write some code and explain it line by line to you, sometimes in detail, sometimes not. At the end, you will probably have the power to use the NEAT Algorithm in any of your projects. In this part, we are just going to get an overview of the NEAT Algorithm, if you have not understood the official paper (It is very hard, I Know).  The first thing to understand is that NEAT is just a very complex variation of a neural network. But as a neural network can have any number of hidden layers, and any number of hidden nodes, it becomes difficult to choose and eve...

 This is my first blog and this is so smooth to type, I just love it. Anyway, this blog is about something that i made in the previous week. You see, I had an arduino lying around cause I had purchased it out of curiosity and also a bunch of wires, and buttons, and whatnot. But when I saw this video by Sebastian Lague about him making a console with an arduino, I thought I could do the same. This was an awesome idea, but i didn't have any led displays like he did. So, I decided to make something even better - A console which can connect to my pc and let me play any game that my heart desires. This was not an easy task, but I researched a lot and came across an instructables page, which explained how to do this exact same thing in practice. But, after reading it through, i found out that the arduino UNO, which I currently had, is not the best version of arduino to do this. But, there was a way out. I would need to write a script that would detect keypresses from the arduino, and the...