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Tabla de Contenidos: “…Cover -- CONTENTS -- LIST OF FIGURES -- LIST OF STORIES -- PREFACE -- PREFACE TO 2ND EDITION -- 0 UNKNOWABLE AND INCOMMUNICABLE -- The Problem with Parsing Experience -- The Impossibility of Communication -- Three Levels of Listening -- So, What Do I Do Tomorrow? …”

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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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