Published in Applied Data Science·PinnedHow To Calculate The Trappiest Chess Openings Using The Lichess APIThe definitive guide to ranking the best chess traps using stats — In this blog post, we will use cold hard stats (and Python) to calculate the best chess traps! 🚀 🪤 What’s a chess trap? Let’s start with a definition: A trap is a position where a player is likely to play a move that when followed by the optimal response, results in a position where…Chess5 min readChess5 min read
Published in Applied Data Science·Jan 25, 2021How To Build Your Own AI To Play Any Board GameNEW reinforcement learning Python package SIMPLE — Self-play In MultiPlayer Environments — ✏️ The Plan In November, I set out to write a Python package that can train AI agents to play any board game…🤖 🎲 To be successful, the package had to meet the following objectives: It will work with any custom board game logic It will handle multiplayer games It will start tabula-rasa…Deep Learning10 min readDeep Learning10 min read
Published in Applied Data Science·Nov 10, 2020How To Become COVID Savvy In 10 StepsA guide to navigating through a sea of data — When it comes to data relating to COVID-19, we are all at sea. Head over to Twitter and you will find lifeboats for every path back to shore — conspiracy rafts, government advice rafts, zero-COVID rafts and everything in between. Which one will you choose? Who can you trust? You…Data Science13 min readData Science13 min read
Published in Applied Data Science·Jun 20, 2020The Google ‘vs’ TrickHow ego graphs can help you learn about AI, play chess, eat healthier, buy a dog and find love. — Have you ever found yourself Googling something followed by ‘ vs ’ to see the autocomplete suggestions that are a bit like the thing you wanted to find out about?Data Science7 min readData Science7 min read
Published in Applied Data Science·May 29, 2020Member-onlyHow To Put Coronavirus Into ContextWhat Can 105 Years of Mortality Data Teach Us About Risk? — 1. What’s This About? We’re going to find out which week of the last century carried the same mortality risk as the peak week of the current coronavirus epidemic, in the following 6 European countries: England & Wales Sweden Spain Belgium The Netherlands Denmark Why these 6 countries? These are the countries that have publicly available mortality data…Covid 1911 min readCovid 1911 min read
Published in Applied Data Science·Apr 27, 2020How To Count Coronavirus Deaths — Why Einstein Was Right.An In-Depth Analysis Of The Coronavirus Death Statistics From England And Wales — Many of the things you can count, don’t count. Many of the things you can’t count, really count — Albert Einstein I started writing this article in the first few weeks after coronavirus broke into the UK. The newspapers had started reporting on the growth of the virus across the…Coronavirus16 min readCoronavirus16 min read
Published in Applied Data Science·Dec 11, 2019UK General Election — Facebook Ad Spend InfographicWe’ve collated the data from every Facebook ad launched by parties during the election campaign into one infographic. — Scroll to the bottom for links to high-res version Download hi-res version here Visit website All data is sourced from the Facebook Ad Library 👍Data Science1 min readData Science1 min read
Published in Applied Data Science·Dec 2, 2019MuZero: The Walkthrough (Part 2/3)Teaching a machine to play games using self-play and deep learning…without telling it the rules 🤯 — If you want to learn how one of the most sophisticated AI systems ever built works, you’ve come to the right place. This is the second part in the series that walks through the pseudocode released by DeepMind for their groundbreaking reinforcement learning model, MuZero. 👉 Part 1 👉 Part…Artificial Intelligence7 min readArtificial Intelligence7 min read
Published in Applied Data Science·Dec 2, 2019MuZero: The Walkthrough (Part 3/3)Teaching a machine to play games using self-play and deep learning…without telling it the rules 🤯 — If you want to learn how one of the most sophisticated AI systems ever built works, you’ve come to the right place. This is the third and final part in a series that walks through the pseudocode released by DeepMind for their groundbreaking reinforcement learning model, MuZero. 👉 Part 1 …Machine Learning9 min readMachine Learning9 min read
Published in Applied Data Science·Dec 2, 2019Member-onlyMuZero: The Walkthrough (Part 1/3)Teaching a machine to play games using self-play and deep learning…without telling it the rules 🤯 — If you want to learn how one of the most sophisticated AI systems ever built works, you’ve come to the right place. In this three part series, we’ll explore the inner workings of the DeepMind MuZero model — the younger (and even more impressive) brother of AlphaZero. 👉 Part 2 …Machine Learning7 min readMachine Learning7 min read
