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Tom Bolton’s AI and Machine Learning Lab Notebook.

Month: April 2018

Machine Learning

A while ago, at the time when I was (ludicrously, it seems) considering tic tac toe as a viable candidate for an AI project, it occurred to me that Checkers was a probably a better candidate. I don’t actually play games…

Machine Learning

Before moving on to my next project, I thought a good segue would be to discuss the actual results of porting my NN to Python and some open issues that I have yet to resolve. In general, the port seems…

Machine Learning

I just finished doing what I set out to do about a week ago. I took the my NN number-classifier and ported it over to Python. Here are my thoughts on the process and on Python itself. My Approach In…

Machine LearningVideo Games

From Wikipedia Grinding (gaming) In video gaming, grinding is performing repetitive tasks[1][2] for gameplay advantage… Grinding may be required by some games to unlock additional features such as level progression or additional items. For someone who’s not a professional developer, I’ve…

Machine Learning

Having spent some time thinking through the trivial game of tic tac toe, I’ve now become interested in tackling some “real” game mechanics. Checkers is the one I have in mind. So naturally, I’m interested in the current state of…

Machine Learning

As I was wrapping up the last week of my course, I stumbled upon a thread in the discussion forums started by one of the other students in the class who wanted to create a NN to play tic tac toe…