Predicting players’ departure in MMORPGs

MMORPG’s business model Nowadays, MMORPGs are so popular that their market is worth over a billion dollars in 2019 and it is expected to keep growing during the following years. They can count over 10 million active monthly players, and, as expected, their huge base of players is one the keys to their success. In fact, these kinds of games belong to the (FTP) Free-To-Play … Continue reading Predicting players’ departure in MMORPGs

CNN: Convolutional Neural Networks

If we want machines to think, we need to teach them to see Fei-Fei Li Computer vision is one of the most challenging and fascinating field of machine learning. We can say it acquired popularity back in 2010 since the ILSVRC (Large Scale Visual Recognition Challenge) competition was introduced by Alex Berg from Stony Brook, Jia Deng from Princeton & Stanford, and Fei-Fei Li from … Continue reading CNN: Convolutional Neural Networks

Generating handwritten digits with VAE and Zhusuan

In the last post we talked about Variational Auteoncoders (VAE), powerful generative machine learning model able to generate new data based on previously seen samples. In this post we are going to implement one and use it to generate handritten digits. Will you recognize which digits have been written by a human and which ones have been written by a machine? We are going to … Continue reading Generating handwritten digits with VAE and Zhusuan

VAE: Variational Autoencoder

Here are some digits, first of all, I ask you “Can you recognize them?” Maybe not all of them, some digits are actually blurred while others are quite ambiguous. Now let me show you another set of digits. It sounds like someone wrote many “6”s, all of the are very similar, but not the same. The second question I want to propose now is “Have … Continue reading VAE: Variational Autoencoder

Deep Dreaming

We have already discussed whether machines can think in a previous post. Now, the next question I would like to propose is: “Can machines dream?”. After reading that, you may think that I got completely crazy, that I lost my head somewhere in the cosmos and came back with new extravagant ideas. Well…Actually, you are not so wrong. My head, while navigating among the deepest … Continue reading Deep Dreaming