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Xavier Geerinck

Debugging Common Dapr Issues

Debugging Common Dapr Issues

As a new sort of writing, I wanted to create a "debugging" blog post where I list "my rookie" mistakes that I made while working with Dapr. I hope that by sharing I can help others to more quickly resolve their own issues 😊 Issues Error: app

Setting up Stable Baselines with Python 3.7 and WSL 2

Setting up Stable Baselines with Python 3.7 and WSL 2

I've been playing around a bit with Stable Baselines lately for an upcoming project. However while playing, I encountered some issues seeing that Stable Baselines currently requires Tensorflow <= 1.14 which is only supported through Python < 3.8. Due those difficulties, I thought it would be

Autonomously Landing a Lunar Lander with an Xbox Controller Robotic Arm - Part 2

Autonomously Landing a Lunar Lander with an Xbox Controller Robotic Arm - Part 2

In Part 1 I explained you how you can create a Robot Arm that can be mounted on an Xbox controller. In OpenAI Lunar Lander I then continued to see how we are able to train a lunar lander environment to land a lunar lander all by itself with a

Training the Continuous Lunar Lander with Reinforcement Learning, RLLib and PPO

Training the Continuous Lunar Lander with Reinforcement Learning, RLLib and PPO

For an upcoming blog post, I would like to have a robotic arm to land a Lunar Lander autonomously. In Part 1 I explained how we can build such a robotic arm already, but now we need to be able to go deeper into how we are able to train

Autonomously Landing a Lunar Lander with an Xbox Controller Robotic Arm - Part 1

Autonomously Landing a Lunar Lander with an Xbox Controller Robotic Arm - Part 1

Creating an Xbox Robot Arm is something that I've been wanting to do ever since I saw the post by Kevin Drouglazet who was able to utilize an Xbox Controller with an arm he created and was so friendly to publish the design files for (I am definitely

Getting Xbox Controller inputs through Node.js

Getting Xbox Controller inputs through Node.js

For an upcoming Blog Post I wanted to connect my Xbox controller and start reading the input values through a simple node.js script that I could send back to an Arduino Nano. This entire process however seemed to be quite "interesting" to find suitable libraries and long-term

Unity ML-Agents - An Introduction

Unity ML-Agents - An Introduction

Seeing the rising popularity of the ML-Agents framework and them having achieved Release 2 - congratulations! - I decided to start by running one of the examples and documenting it. Installing Unity First we have to install Unity, for that we simply can go to https://unity3d.com/get-unity/download