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Tom Bolton’s AI and Machine Learning Lab Notebook.

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…

Machine Learning

Right now, I am deeply immersed in the mechanics of machine learning — the math, the programming, the hardware, everything. It’s interesting that at my age I should be just diving into this sort of thing. But it didn’t come…