# probabilistic programming (blogs) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 4 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover probabilistic programming. Page: Feed: --- ## [A Workaphile’s Apology](https://moalquraishi.wordpress.com/2026/08/10/a-workaphiles-apology/) _2026-08-10 · Mohammed AlQuraishi · Some Thoughts on a Mysterious Universe_ Disclaimer: No LLMs were used in the writing of this essay—all em dashes are mine. Soon after the AlexNet breakthrough burst onto the scene over a decade ago, I became preoccupied with the following question: What will a meaningful human life look like when thinking is best done by machines? Versions of this question are Continue reading ## [A recipe for drone racing with reinforcement learning](https://mrandri19.github.io/2026/07/19/drone-racing-with-reinforcement-learning.html) _2026-07-19 · Home_ This post is the third and final post in our series on quadcopter simulation. The first post and second post derived and simulated the quadcopter’s equations of motion, first in 2D and then in 3D. In this post we train a reinforcement learning policy to fly the quadcopter, first to hover at a fixed point, then to fly through a sequence of gates. The previous posts were tutorial-like, we started… ## [Simulating a 3D quadcopter from scratch](https://mrandri19.github.io/2026/04/11/3d-quadcopter-simulation.html) _2026-04-11 · Home_ This post is the second post in our series on quadcopter simulation. If you want the simpler planar version first, the previous post derives and simulates the same ideas in 2D, but this post is fully standalone. Today, we simulate a three-dimensional quadcopter. We will derive the equations of motion, transform them into state-space form, and finally simulate the system in Python. Along the way,… ## [Simulating a 2D quadcopter from scratch](https://mrandri19.github.io/2026/04/03/2d-quadcopter-simulation.html) _2026-04-03 · Home_ In this post, we build a simple simulation of a 2D (planar) quadcopter, a type of drone with four propellers. We will derive the equations of motion, rewrite them in state-space form, and simulate the resulting system in Python. Why simulate a quadcopter at all? If you want to design a controller, or train a reinforcement learning agent, you first need a model you can run in software. This post… ## [A real estate investment calculator](https://blog.horaceg.xyz/posts/housing/) _2025-11-21 · Horace Guy · Regression toward the meaning_ Monthly Payments: loan & interest As a young-ish professional, I’ve been wondering whether I should buy my primary residence or keep renting. With this thought, I’ve been driven to answer this question in a rational manner. You can see the results of this investigation on this website: linemo . Loan interest rates It all started when I wanted to know how much I would pay in interest for a loan.… ## [An interactive introduction to probabilistic programming](https://blog.horaceg.xyz/posts/intro-ppl/) _2025-01-06 · Horace Guy · Regression toward the meaning_ Prior, posterior and likelihood Reuse CC BY 4.0 Citation BibTeX citation: @online{guy2025, author = {Guy, Horace}, title = {An Interactive Introduction to Probabilistic Programming}, date = {2025-01-06}, url = {https://blog.horaceg.xyz/posts/intro-ppl/}, langid = {en} } For attribution, please cite this work as: Guy, Horace. 2025. “An Interactive Introduction to Probabilistic Programming.” January…