October 2007
Blended Technologies » Blog Archive » Machine Learning and Dragons - a Game
You’re a knight and your job is to kill as many dragons as you can. The twist is that the dragons use Genetic Programming to learn from every encounter. (You can optionally have them use Reinforcement learning instead too.)
September 2007
An Intuitive Explanation of the Information Entropy of a Random Variable
There is a popular game called twenty questions that works like this. One person is the "Knower" and picks a point out of the probability space of all objects (thinks of an object). The other is the "Guesser" and asks the Knower to evaluate various random variables (questions) at that point (answer the questions of the object). The Guesser wins if he can guess the object the Knower is thinking about by asking at most twenty questions.
October 2006
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