I taught my computer to play wheres waldo with barcodes - Neural networks from scratch @sphaerophoria

I taught my computer to play wheres waldo with barcodes - Neural networks from scratch @sphaerophoria

Uploaded August 2025 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago

Please consider supporting. This content WILL end some day, but every dollar I make pushes that day further out

Join on youtube for happy hour vods youtube.com/channel/UCXzL31BCxf8En1KT34gSK6g/join
Or on patreon patreon.com/sphaerophoria
Or on twitch twitch.tv/sphaerophoria
Or sponsor me on github (no benefits) github.com/sponsors/sphaerophoria

00:00 Intro
07:00 Data generation
50:30 Max pooling
01:48:58 New loss function
02:01:04 Train and play

I taught my computer to play wheres waldo with barcodes - Neural networks from scratch

Using my AI from zig

I wrote a DNS client

Architecture summary: GPU neural network training from scratch with OpenCL

3D math hurts my head sometimes

HTTP client/server interfaces, a year later

Modding a compiler so I can find my bugs

I put a window manager in my window manager

Quick and dirty HTML draggable list

Day 6 has hands, day 7 is easy peasy

Day 2 was way easier

This shouldnt be happening

sphaerophoria |

I taught my computer to play where's waldo with barcodes - Neural networks from scratch