Quite fun to see neural networks in the news. A million years ago I took a class on neural networks, using backpropagation to train networks to do image classi

Quite fun to see neural networks in the news. A million years ago I took a class on neural networks, using backpropagation to train networks to do image classification. I will never forget the feeling of "you've got to be kidding me" when the code I had written was able to successfully classify a huge percentage of the validation image set. I really should head back in that direction and get with the machine learning. Re: poker software. Before the feds crushed online poker, I had already given up on low-limit limit hold-em. It had clearly become a bot and augmented-player race. I would assume given game theory and Bill Chen's book that some enterprising hackers would encode pretty decent no-limit bots as well. If any hackers know anything about successful no-limit bots, I'd enjoy reading about it.