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It has been almost 2 years since a major breakthough in AI research made Reinforcement Learning computationally feasible on laptops even without use of GPU computing: https://arxiv.org/abs/1602.01783 Searching for “asynchronous advantage actor critic” (A3C in short) in the Mathematica documentation does not seem to find anything. My questions are: Has modern reinforcement learning been implementedRead more

I can’t help but think that the AJAX technology, where we make small calls to the server and receive JSON objects, has ruined software development — because of asynchronicity. The regular statement flow of a software application is broken, and we have to force it via twisted .when()/.then() chains and ‘promises’ to streamline it back.Read more

The following TaskStack processes input elements asynchronously based on a function that it receives at construction: TaskStack<String, Integer> stack = new TaskStack<>(String::length); In a realistic scenario, this function would be long-running. We can add input elements to our stack to have them processed: CompletableFuture<Integer> futOutput1 = stack.add(“How’s it going?”); CompletableFuture<Integer> futOutput2 = stack.add(“duplicate input”); CompletableFuture<Integer>Read more

I am trying to understand how we can use generator based coroutines to write asynchronous code in a sequential style without using any of the new features in Python so that the fundamental idea is clear. Is this approach fine? One thing I can probably improve upon is the idea of using other coroutines. IsRead more

I’ve been using firebase database and now firestore for a while. I’m prob an intermediate level programmer and still at uni. I’m still a bit unsure re: the best way to handle calls that are occurring async to firebase database and updating the UI. I’ve previously used delegates to do this but I was wonderingRead more

Disclaimer: I am a C++ guy, so my C# is not even close. Therefore some review might be helpful. Here is my 4th attempt at a client using asynchronous sockets. Please give feedback. The hardest part of this endeavour is synchronizing what can happen and when it can happen. Some examples I had to tackleRead more