Still at it

My apps business is pretty much officially done soon because the ad api on most of my apps is no longer supported.  That and the fact that I haven't updated those apps in years now.  I am nonetheless still writing software, just mostly for the government these days, along with some very small projects for fun on the side.  For example:

https://github.com/arachtivix/geometry

You'll notice the packages mention fractals, of which there are a few in there, but lately I've been using this project to get into some neural network stuff.  I devised a few programs to train neural networks on some basic geometrical problems.  

The first problem I devised involved trying to see if a simple neural network could tell the difference between a set of circles where there was room for one more and a set where there was not.  I could not get it to train reliably, which I found interesting.

Just to make sure I was doing anything right at all, I created a program to train a neural network to tell me if two circles overlap.  That program had no trouble creating a very high degree of confidence after a dozen rounds or so.  Given this result, I'm left to consider what aspects of the first problem lend themselves less to the particular solution I tried.

Anyway, that's the news from lake Wobegon.