The draw of the impossible Baby Steps. The draw of the impossible Baby Steps. If you've ever refused to knock down a game's difficulty level, or chased a purposefully pointless achievement, you might have this pernicious but pleasurable affliction Don't get Pushing Buttons delivered to your inbox? S tudies on gaming's effect on the brain usually focus on aggression or the cognitive benefits of playing games. The former topic has fallen out of fashion now, after more than a decade's worth of scientific research failed to prove any causative link between video games and real-world violence.

A game so impenetrable that it seemed designed to make you walk away ... Demon's Souls. A game so impenetrable that it seemed designed to make you walk away ... Demon's Souls. What does my love for impossibly difficult video games say about me? From Demon Souls to Baby Steps, challenging games keep a certain type of player coming back for more. Don't get Pushing Buttons delivered to your inbox?

Crowd control Asses.Masses played by a live audience. Crowd control Asses.Masses played by a live audience. T his weekend, I spent more than eight hours in a theatre playing a video game about donkeys, reincarnation and organised labour with about 70 other people. Political, unpredictable and replete with ass puns, Asses.Masses is, on the one hand, a fairly rudimentary-looking video game made by Canadian artists Patrick Blenkarn and Milton Lim with a small team of collaborators. But the setting - in a theatre, surrounded by others, everybody shouting advice and opinions and working together on puzzles - transforms it into a piece of collective performance art.

Is a Hiking Game That Trolls'Slightly Problematic' Men The walking simulator, launching September 23 on PlayStation and Steam, stars a jobless 35-year-old "privileged, white male" whose pride stops him from getting help. Game developer Bennett Foddy was watching a Greek myth unfold in front of him. A playtester for his latest project,, was struggling to navigate the game's lead--Nate, a 35-year-old "failson" in a stained onesie--up a slippery hill. Each time, the terrain proved to be too much, and Nate skidded uselessly down it. Foddy has a reputation for making onerous games that take a little bit of masochism to master.

Game developers Gabe Cuzzillo, Maxi Boch and Bennett Foddy have been friends for over a decade, having met through NYU's Game Centre, and they already have one successful indie game under their belt. Ape Out had you smashing through halls full of goons as a rampaging gorilla to the tune of a procedural jazz soundtrack. Their next game, Baby Steps, is equally unconventional. A walking simulator in a very literal sense, you'll awkwardly steer Nate, a caked-up, onesie-wearing basement dweller, to the top of a misty mountain. "On a controller, players use the triggers to lift and plant each foot while using the left stick to move the lifted foot around in the air, manually taking each of Nate's steps," Cuzzillo says.

Let a million monkeys clack on a million typewriters for a million years and, the adage goes, they'll reproduce the works of Shakespeare. Give infinite monkeys infinite time, and they still will not appreciate the bard's poetic turn-of-phrase, even if they can type out the words. The same holds true for artificial intelligence (AI), according to Michael Woolridge, professor of computer science at the University of Oxford. The issue, he said, is not the processing power, but rather a lack of experience. His perspective was published on July 25 in Intelligent Computing, a Science Partner Journal.

This list goes on and on and never stops. This is what every single DL aspirant has heard in the past and marvelled at the complexity of it. I entered a DL workshop and the mentor asked, " Does anyone know what is a perceptron? I thought I had missed a character in the Transformers series.

Kids can make wonders; many surveys and stats prove that the age from 5-15 is the best time for anyone in their entire lifetime to store as much data into their brain as possible. But the very idea of introducing them to such complex topics like AI and ML can be extremely terrifying. But worry not, we are here to help you take your kids into the world of ML. Machine learning is definitely not as easy as teaching rhymes but we can make it fun. "Rome wasn't built in a day" and hence, make sure you don't dig deep into the topics like robots or automation.

It is also used to identify the outliers in the dataset. Here we can see that the mean is around 50000. There are also few outliers at 60000 and 1000000, which should be treated in the preprocessing stage. A count plot can be thought of as a histogram across a categorical, instead of numeric, variable. It is used to find the frequency of each category. Here we can see that category "86" is dominating over the other categories. These are the basic, initial steps in exploratory data analysis. I wish to cover the rest of the steps in the next few articles. I hope you found this short article helpful.

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is taking the fast route to modernise society. But how about looking back at some past delights like poetry through AI? Researchers are up to the stage where they want to know how AI performs in understanding and summarizing poems. Poems are a bit complicated even to humans. They are metaphorical, has hidden meanings and representations which a normal person who has an average knowledge about poetry struggles to understand. Putting AI mechanism at the shoes of a poetry fanatic is quite a new establishment.