RL development is being driven by several companies and research groups, including Google, Microsoft, and Facebook. It requires lots of investment in research, as there are not that many directions that are developed enough to be able to just take their methods and apply them to a problem. This is similar to how natural language processing and computer vision were several years ago. Having said that, the field of RL is attracting lots of attention, both from researchers and practitioners. This book helps readers to understand RL methods using real-life problems, and make the exciting RL domain accessible to a much wider audience than just research groups or large AI companies.

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Prof. Ahmed Banafa has extensive experience in research, operations and management, with a focus on IoT, Blockchain, Cybersecurity and AI. His researches cited in studies by international organizations like NATO, WTO, and APEC. He is a reviewer and a technical contributor for the publication of several technical books. He served as an instructor at well-known universities and colleges, including Stanford University, University of California, Berkeley; California State University-East Bay; San Jose State University; and University of Massachusetts. He is the recipient of several awards, including Distinguished Tenured Staff Award, Instructor of the year for 4 years in a row, and Certificate of Honor from the City and County of San Francisco.

Lee Vaughan is a programmer, pop culture enthusiast, educator, and author of Impractical Python Projects (No Starch Press, 2018). As an executive-level scientist at ExxonMobil, he constructed and reviewed computer models, developed and tested software, and trained geoscientists and engineers. He wrote both Impractical Python Projects and Real-World Python to help self-learners hone their Python skills and have fun doing it! You can think of this as your second Python book. It's designed to follow and complement either a complete beginner's book or an introductory class.

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Is AI the face of the new Brick-and-Mortar market? Artificial Intelligence's business applications are undergoing unprecedented growth as a new evolving reality. Therefore, giving AI its due credit stands to reason on a two-fold basis. Firstly – AI helps your retail business improve the bottom line and increase productivity. Secondly, customers are actively looking for a value-added experience from physical stores apart from a high-quality product.

Signaling its ambitions to make a dent in the apparel market, Amazon today opened its first physical clothing store, Amazon Style, in the Greater Los Angeles Area. Offering a twist on the traditional experience, visitors to the Glendale, California shop at The Americana At Brand use an app to scan codes on displayed items from Steve Madden, Levi's, Lacoste and other brands to send them directly to a fitting room or pickup counter. As TechCrunch previously reported, Amazon Style features hundreds of brands chosen by "fashion creators" and "feedback provided by millions of customers shopping on Amazon.com." Scanning the QR code next to an item pops up a selector for sizes and colors, as well as details such as customer ratings and adds the item to a list for later perusing. Amazon Style doesn't use the cashierless "Just Walk Out" tech found in Amazon Fresh and Whole Foods locations, instead opting for Amazon's controversial Amazon One palm recognition service.

IKEA continues its foray into smart home devices with the launch of a Google Matter-ready hub called DIRIGERA and a new IKEA Home smart app. With the new device and app, the Swedish company is promising to handle more smart device segments while making device integration easier. It says the app will be "convenient, easy to navigate and user-friendly" for anyone just getting into smart home tech. "With the new DIRIGERA hub for smart products, users will be able to onboard all IKEA smart products to the system and steer them individually, in sets or in groups in the new IKEA Home smart app. This enables users to create different scenes with pre-set functions of the smart products and increases the personalisation options for the smart home," according to the company.

Murat Durmus is CEO and founder of AISOMA. A Frankfurt am Main (Germany) based company specialized in AI-based technology development and consulting. Besides being an entrepreneur, he devotes most of his time to philosophy and AI's impacts on society.

In our increasingly digitized world, enterprise software applications can better serve your business and your customers. By connecting every department within a company, enterprise systems allow companies to improve productivity and efficiency. These systems are generally created with specific goals in mind and serve many users at the same time, typically over a computer network instead of an end-user application. From payment processing and online shopping to automated billing, interactive product catalogs, business process management, content management, security, and more, the services such software systems provide are built to satisfy the needs of businesses, schools, clubs, charities, and government organizations alike. These systems are frequently enhanced to meet the changing needs and opportunities of the particular entity for which they were written.