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Tabla de Contenidos: “…Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright and Credits -- Dedication -- Packt Upsell -- Contributors -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Chapter 1: A Gentle Introduction to Machine Learning -- Introduction - classic and adaptive machines -- Descriptive analysis -- Predictive analysis -- Only learning matters -- Supervised learning -- Unsupervised learning -- Semi-supervised learning -- Reinforcement learning -- Computational neuroscience -- Beyond machine learning - deep learning and bio-inspired adaptive systems -- Machine learning and big data -- Summary -- Chapter 2: Important Elements in Machine Learning -- Data formats -- Multiclass strategies -- One-vs-all -- One-vs-one -- Learnability -- Underfitting and overfitting -- Error measures and cost functions -- PAC learning -- Introduction to statistical learning concepts -- MAP learning -- Maximum likelihood learning -- Class balancing -- Resampling with replacement -- SMOTE resampling -- Elements of information theory -- Entropy -- Cross-entropy and mutual information -- Divergence measures between two probability distributions -- Summary -- Chapter 3: Feature Selection and Feature Engineering -- scikit-learn toy datasets -- Creating training and test sets -- Managing categorical data -- Managing missing features -- Data scaling and normalization -- Whitening -- Feature selection and filtering -- Principal Component Analysis -- Non-Negative Matrix Factorization -- Sparse PCA -- Kernel PCA -- Independent Component Analysis -- Atom extraction and dictionary learning -- Visualizing high-dimensional datasets using t-SNE -- Summary -- Chapter 4: Regression Algorithms -- Linear models for regression -- A bidimensional example -- Linear regression with scikit-learn and higher dimensionality -- R2 score -- Explained variance -- Regressor analytic expression -- Ridge, Lasso, and ElasticNet -- Ridge -- Lasso…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Going directly from A to B -- From point A to B with obstacles in the way -- Generating grid nodes -- Pathfinding implementation -- Summary -- Chapter 8: Crowd Interactions -- What is crowd interaction -- Video games and crowd interactions -- Assassin's Creed -- Grand Theft Auto (GTA) -- The Sims -- FIFA/Pro evolution soccer -- Planning crowd interactions -- Group fight -- Communication (attention zones) -- Communication (talking to other AI characters) -- Team sports -- Crowd collision avoidance -- Summary -- Chapter 9: AI Planning and Collision Avoidance -- Search -- Offensive search -- Predicting opponent actions -- Collision avoidance -- Summary -- Chapter 10: Awareness -- Stealth sub-genre -- About tactics -- About awareness -- Implementing vision awareness -- Basic vision detection -- Advanced vision detection -- Realistic field of view effect -- Summary -- Index…”

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Tabla de Contenidos: “…1 Contextualizing this volume in the field of glass bead studies -- 2 Glass beads and human pasts -- 3 Characterizing glass recipes for distinctive polychrome glass bead types in Ontario, Canada -- 4 Simple blue (IIa40) beads from 17th century Mission Santa Catalina de Guale: Dating, origins, and elemental composition -- 5 Glass trade bead analysis at Upper Hampton Farm (40RH41): A case study for 17th and 18th century Non-Cherokee habitation in East Tennessee Valley -- 6 Compositional analysis of compound drawn white glass beads from colonial California: Implications for chronology and dispersal -- 7 Glass beads and evidence for early "pre-contact" trade in Northwestern Alaska -- 8 The exchange of beads in Central Thailand in the protohistoric period: Glass objects from Phromthin Tai -- 9 Shifting patterns of glass bead cargo of 15th - 17th century Philippines shipwrecks -- 10 Sources of glass beads from the High Himalayas: 1200 BCE-CE 650 -- 11 Inland from the sea: Rethinking the value of mineral soda alumina drawn glass beads from medieval North India -- 12 Beads from the lowlands of Northwestern Ethiopia -- 13 Inland glass beads in Northeast Tanzania, 8th-17th centuries CE -- 14 Glass beads at Unguja Ukuu in the late 1st millennium CE: Results of the 2018 excavation in Zanzibar -- 15 Chemical analysis of precolonial Indian Ocean glass beads found in the southern African interior: linking global objects to local and regional change -- 16 Morphology and elemental composition: provenancing glass beads from 12th - 13th century Mayotte -- 17 Elemental composition of glass beads from the eastern Mediterranean region: Chronology and provenance of material from Tel Anafa, Israel -- 18 South Asian beads at the site of Kish, Iraq -- 19 Technology, chronology, and exchange examined through glass beads, Appendix Supplementary Materials…”

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