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'Super Mario 3D World Bowser's Fury' is a must-buy. But it's not because of Bowser's Fury.

Washington Post - Technology News

The "Super Mario 3D World" portion of the package takes the classic Mario games formula and applies it to 3D, meaning in this game, you use 3D Mario game controls like long jumps and butt stomps to navigate courses toward the end goal, the iconic flagpole. Throughout the courses are hidden collectibles like stamps and green stars that unlock special courses and minigames on an overview world map. Toward the end of each section is a castle level with a big boss and a Sprixie to rescue. You do this all while collecting power-ups like the new cat suit to change Mario's abilities (in the cat suit's case, you can claw enemies, climb up walls and do diagonal dive attacks).


Practical Guide To K-Means Clustering

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Clustering is one of the most popular and widespread unsupervised machine learning method used for data analysis and mining patterns. At its core, clustering is the grouping of similar observations based upon the characteristics. There are multiple approaches for generating clusters of similar objects. However, in this section, you will learn how to build groups based on the k-Means algorithm. In simple words, k-means clustering is a technique that aims to divide the data into k number of clusters.


Patterns, predictions, and actions: A story about machine learning

arXiv.org Machine Learning

This graduate textbook on machine learning tells a story of how patterns in data support predictions and consequential actions. Starting with the foundations of decision making, we cover representation, optimization, and generalization as the constituents of supervised learning. A chapter on datasets as benchmarks examines their histories and scientific bases. Self-contained introductions to causality, the practice of causal inference, sequential decision making, and reinforcement learning equip the reader with concepts and tools to reason about actions and their consequences. Throughout, the text discusses historical context and societal impact. We invite readers from all backgrounds; some experience with probability, calculus, and linear algebra suffices.


Dynamic Movement Primitives in Robotics: A Tutorial Survey

arXiv.org Artificial Intelligence

Biological systems, including human beings, have the innate ability to perform complex tasks in versatile and agile manner. Researchers in sensorimotor control have tried to understand and formally define this innate property. The idea, supported by several experimental findings, that biological systems are able to combine and adapt basic units of motion into complex tasks finally lead to the formulation of the motor primitives theory. In this respect, Dynamic Movement Primitives (DMPs) represent an elegant mathematical formulation of the motor primitives as stable dynamical systems, and are well suited to generate motor commands for artificial systems like robots. In the last decades, DMPs have inspired researchers in different robotic fields including imitation and reinforcement learning, optimal control,physical interaction, and human-robot co-working, resulting a considerable amount of published papers. The goal of this tutorial survey is two-fold. On one side, we present the existing DMPs formulations in rigorous mathematical terms,and discuss advantages and limitations of each approach as well as practical implementation details. In the tutorial vein, we also search for existing implementations of presented approaches and release several others. On the other side, we provide a systematic and comprehensive review of existing literature and categorize state of the art work on DMP. The paper concludes with a discussion on the limitations of DMPs and an outline of possible research directions.


Generalization of Model-Agnostic Meta-Learning Algorithms: Recurring and Unseen Tasks

arXiv.org Machine Learning

In this paper, we study the generalization properties of Model-Agnostic Meta-Learning (MAML) algorithms for supervised learning problems. We focus on the setting in which we train the MAML model over $m$ tasks, each with $n$ data points, and characterize its generalization error from two points of view: First, we assume the new task at test time is one of the training tasks, and we show that, for strongly convex objective functions, the expected excess population loss is bounded by $\mathcal{O}(1/mn)$. Second, we consider the MAML algorithm's generalization to an unseen task and show that the resulting generalization error depends on the total variation distance between the underlying distributions of the new task and the tasks observed during the training process. Our proof techniques rely on the connections between algorithmic stability and generalization bounds of algorithms. In particular, we propose a new definition of stability for meta-learning algorithms, which allows us to capture the role of both the number of tasks $m$ and number of samples per task $n$ on the generalization error of MAML.


Complete Machine Learning and Data Science: Zero to Mastery

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This is a brand new Machine Learning and Data Science course just launched January 2020 and updated this month with the latest trends and skills! Become a complete Data Scientist and Machine Learning engineer! Join a live online community of 270,000 engineers and a course taught by industry experts that have actually worked for large companies in places like Silicon Valley and Toronto. Graduates of Andrei's courses are now working at Google, Tesla, Amazon, Apple, IBM, JP Morgan, Facebook, other top tech companies. Learn Data Science and Machine Learning from scratch, get hired, and have fun along the way with the most modern, up-to-date Data Science course on Udemy (we use the latest version of Python, Tensorflow 2.0 and other libraries).


Statistics for Data Science and Business Analysis

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A blitz through classical statistical learning theory

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Previous post: ML theory with bad drawings Next post: TBD, see also all seminar posts and course webpage. Lecture video (starts in slide 2 since I hit record button 30 seconds too late – sorry!) These are rough notes for the first lecture in my advanced topics in machine learning seminar. See the previous post for the introduction. This lecture's focus was on "classical" learing theory.


Regression with Keras (Deep Learning with Keras - Part 3) : Regression

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After two introductory tutorials, its time to build our first neural network! The network we are building solves a simple regression problem. Regression is a process where a model learns to predict a continuous value output for a given input data, e.g. Our objective is to build prediction model that predicts housing prices from a set of house features. We will use the Boston Housing dataset, which is collected by the U.S Census Service concerning housing in the area of Boston Mass.


Reinforcement Learning for Decision-Making and Control in Power Systems: Tutorial, Review, and Vision

arXiv.org Artificial Intelligence

With large-scale integration of renewable generation and ubiquitous distributed energy resources (DERs), modern power systems confront a series of new challenges in operation and control, such as growing complexity, increasing uncertainty, and aggravating volatility. While the upside is that more and more data are available owing to the widely-deployed smart meters, smart sensors, and upgraded communication networks. As a result, data-driven control techniques, especially reinforcement learning (RL), have attracted surging attention in recent years. In this paper, we focus on RL and aim to provide a tutorial on various RL techniques and how they can be applied to the decision-making and control in power systems. In particular, we select three key applications, including frequency regulation, voltage control, and energy management, for illustration, and present the typical ways to model and tackle them with RL methods. We conclude by emphasizing two critical issues in the application of RL, i.e., safety and scalability. Several potential future directions are discussed as well.