https://etpreskaz.github.io/A blog about my programming projects, software development, and other things I find interesting. 2026-08-12T10:46:26-05:00 Ethan Kazenske https://etpreskaz.github.io/ Jekyll © 2026 Ethan Kazenske /assets/img/favicons/favicon.ico /assets/img/favicons/favicon-96x96.png 2025-11-10T06:00:00-06:00 2025-11-10T06:00:00-06:00 https://etpreskaz.github.io/posts/What-Is-A-Neural-Network/ Ethan Kazenske

Background I have always found AI fastinating. I remember watching youtube videos of people explaining how a neural network worked, what they were used for, and how they were improving. Recently I decided to fully plung into the world of artificial intelligence. The challenge that I wanted to take on was making a network from scratch. This network would be trained on the MNIST dataset, which i...

2025-02-15T06:00:00-06:00 2025-02-15T06:00:00-06:00 https://etpreskaz.github.io/posts/Games-With-Minimax/ Ethan Kazenske

Background The minimax algorithm is an algorithm that uses recursion to play a turn based game. The name comes from the basic way the algorithm works, maximizing one player’s value while minimizing the other player’s. Take a simple game like Tic-Tac-Toe. X starts by playing in the middle. This leaves eight spots for O to choose from. What the minimax algorithm does can then be summed up in fo...

2025-01-21T06:00:00-06:00 2025-08-09T17:01:28-05:00 https://etpreskaz.github.io/posts/Sudoku-Solver/ Ethan Kazenske

Background Sudoku is a classic single player game that many people know and love. It consists of a nine by nine grid of squares, with some squares filled in with a digit 1-9, and the rest empty. Within the main grid are nine three by three subgrids. The goal is for the player to fill the grid with numbers, while following the three big rules. Each row must contain every number, 1-9, i...

2025-01-17T06:00:00-06:00 2025-01-17T06:00:00-06:00 https://etpreskaz.github.io/posts/Finishing-This-Website/ Ethan Kazenske

Finishing this website The website was looking really good, however I was not complete. There were still a few things that needed to be done before I could say everything was “finished”. A few things that needed to happen are: Domain name Website analytics Verify the site Enable Comments This was not the smoothest sailing, involving several hours of ...

2025-01-01T06:00:00-06:00 2025-01-17T23:18:44-06:00 https://etpreskaz.github.io/posts/Making-This-Website/ Ethan Kazenske

Making this website I have always thought it would be very cool to make a website, so I decided to make one. However I was unsure of what to put on my website. A game that I could play would be fun, however that did not seem like a productive use of my time. I then heard that making a website to document all my projects was supper fun to do. That appeled to me, so I began to work on this. Cre...