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PokerBot: Create your poker AI bot in Python - Data Blogger

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In this tutorial, you will learn step-by-step how to implement a poker bot in Python. First, we need an engine in which we can simulate our poker bot. It also has a GUI available which can graphically display a game. Both the engine and the GUI have excellent tutorials on their GitHub pages in how to use them. The choice for the engine (and/or the GUI) is arbitrary and can be replaced by any engine (and/or GUI) you like.


Skilling for the future that has already arrived - Microsoft News Center Canada

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There's no denying the growing skills gap that currently looms over our workforce. The good news is that awareness is increasing. Business leaders and institutions recognize the fundamental need to invest in skills training programs for their people to stay competitive in today's digital economy. Unfortunately, while the skills gap challenge is well established, few are taking action, and the solutions are not moving quickly enough. In 2020, we can expect 200,000 tech jobs to go unfilled in Canada, according ICTC.


The best Online Tutorials On Artificial Intelligence For Beginners

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The ultimate goal of artificial intelligence is to create computer programs that can solve problems and achieve goals like humans would. There is scope in developing machines in robotics, computer vision, language detection machine, game playing, expert systems, speech recognition machine and much more. To take your first steps down the artificial intelligence career path, hiring managers will likely require that you hold at least a bachelor's degree in mathematics and basic computer technology. However, for the most part, bachelor's degrees will only get you into entry-level positions.Following are some of the online tutorials for those who wish to start their career in artificial intelligence. This course is designed for both testers and developers.


Solving Arithmetic Word Problems Automatically Using Transformer and Unambiguous Representations

arXiv.org Machine Learning

Constructing accurate and automatic solvers of math word problems has proven to be quite challenging. Prior attempts using machine learning have been trained on corpora specific to math word problems to produce arithmetic expressions in infix notation before answer computation. We find that custom-built neural networks have struggled to generalize well. This paper outlines the use of Transformer networks trained to translate math word problems to equivalent arithmetic expressions in infix, prefix, and postfix notations. In addition to training directly on domain-specific corpora, we use an approach that pre-trains on a general text corpus to provide foundational language abilities to explore if it improves performance. We compare results produced by a large number of neural configurations and find that most configurations outperform previously reported approaches on three of four datasets with significant increases in accuracy of over 20 percentage points. The best neural approaches boost accuracy by almost 10% on average when compared to the previous state of the art.


Adaptive Online Planning for Continual Lifelong Learning

arXiv.org Artificial Intelligence

We study learning control in an online lifelong learning scenario, where mistakes can compound catastrophically into the future and the underlying dynamics of the environment may change. Traditional model-free policy learning methods have achieved successes in difficult tasks due to their broad flexibility, and capably condense broad experiences into compact networks, but struggle in this setting, as they can activate failure modes early in their lifetimes which are difficult to recover from and face performance degradation as dynamics change. On the other hand, model-based planning methods learn and adapt quickly, but require prohibitive levels of computational resources. Under constrained computation limits, the agent must allocate its resources wisely, which requires the agent to understand both its own performance and the current state of the environment: knowing that its mastery over control in the current dynamics is poor, the agent should dedicate more time to planning. We present a new algorithm, Adaptive Online Planning (AOP), that achieves strong performance in this setting by combining model-based planning with model-free learning. By measuring the performance of the planner and the uncertainty of the model-free components, AOP is able to call upon more extensive planning only when necessary, leading to reduced computation times. We show that AOP gracefully deals with novel situations, adapting behaviors and policies effectively in the face of unpredictable changes in the world -- challenges that a continual learning agent naturally faces over an extended lifetime -- even when traditional reinforcement learning methods fail.


Udemy Black Friday Sale 2019: Best Programming Courses At Just $9.99!

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Just like every year, Udemy's Black Friday sale is back once again with new courses at unbelievably low prices. Besides heavily discounted Cybersecurity and Hacking courses, you can buy programming courses that will teach you the fundamentals of computer programming from scratch. There are thousands of courses up for grabs in the Udemy Black Friday 2019 sale. Be it Web Development, App Development, Game Development, Database management, or simply learning programming languages like Python and Java, you'd find courses on every concept you are seeking to learn. The Udemy Black Friday 2019 sale ends on November 29 at 11:59 p.m. PST.


Deep Learning for NLP: Creating a Chatbot with Keras! - KDnuggets

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In the previous post, we learned what Artificial Neural Networks and Deep Learning are. Also, some neural network structures for exploiting sequential data like text or audio were introduced. If you haven't read that post, you should sit back, grab a coffee, and slowly enjoy it. It can be found here. This new post will cover how to use Keras, a very popular library for neural networks to build a Chatbot. The main concepts of this library will be explained, and then we will go through a step-by-step guide on how to use it to create a yes/no answering bot in Python.


Need for degree courses, professional training programmes in Artificial Intelligence: Experts

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New Delhi, Nov 30 (PTI) There is a need for degree courses and professional training programmes in Artificial Intelligence (AI) with the changing technology landscape, according to industry and academic experts. While the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) has already introduced AI as an optional subject in schools, no full fledged degree courses are available in the area in the country besides few short term courses. 'In the digital era and rapidly-evolving business landscape, AI is influencing a range of industries and altering the job roles. The world is looking at AI for its widespread applications in almost every industry and is considered to be the next big technological shift in industrial and smartphone revolution. The need of the hour is to make AI education more focused and easily available,' said Varun Dhamija, Vice President, Pearson Professional Programs (PPP). 'According to our recent survey, 60 pc Indians believe that the world is shifting to a model where people participate in education over a lifetime which makes it age agnostic.


How to Save and Reuse Data Preparation Objects in Scikit-Learn

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It is critical that any data preparation performed on a training dataset is also performed on a new dataset in the future. This may include a test dataset when evaluating a model or new data from the domain when using a model to make predictions. Typically, the model fit on the training dataset is saved for later use. The correct solution to preparing new data for the model in the future is to also save any data preparation objects, like data scaling methods, to file along with the model. In this tutorial, you will discover how to save a model and data preparation object to file for later use.


7 Windows 10 fixes you'll wish you knew sooner

FOX News

File photo - A Microsoft delegate takes a picture during the launch of the Windows 10 operating system in Kenya's capital Nairobi, July 29, 2015. Some users love it while others hate it. Some experts estimate that Windows 10 dominates nearly 40 percent of the desktop OS market, handily surpassing the popularity of Windows 7. Speaking of, are you still using Windows 7? Microsoft is ending support for the 10-year-old operating system in January. Tap or click to learn how to bring your PC up to date before it's too late. Using the slogan "upgrade your world," Microsoft has described Windows 10 as the "final" version.