Gist: https://gist.github.com/antigones/66825f8dfbfc11333588a583abde4279 💡 Developing a “Game of Life” is pretty simple: we get a matrix and check if every cell should be turned on or off following simple rules. Rules of the “Game of Life” state the following: if a cell is off, then it turns on only if it…

Let’s use machine learning to solve the famous “wolf, goat, cabbage” river crossing puzzle. Full source code: https://github.com/antigones/py-wolf-goat-cabbage-qlearning People in every century liked to challenge themselves with puzzles: Alcuinus, a scholar, wrote a medieval Latin manuscript “Propositiones ad Acuendos Juvenes”, featuring a number of brain-teasers that we can describe as…

Performing generative art with Tensorflow and a GAN. Full source code: https://github.com/antigones/py-truchet-gan “Generative art” is the term referring to the process of creating art by means of automation and is usually performed with algorithms. In this post, we will explore machine learning generative models to create new artistic images (Truchet…

“People change in the maze. Oh, find the cup if you can. But be very wary; you could just lose yourselves along the way.” (Albus Dumbledore) In this post, we will approach the maze generation problem with Machine Learning. …

“It’s only forever, not long at all” (David Bowie) (Curious to see the code? Check it out here! 🧩) As done in the previous posts, we want to address the problem of generating a maze by starting from an (apparently) unrelated problem: percolation. Percolation is the movement and filtering of…

Through dangers untold and hardships unnumbered I have fought my way here to the castle beyond the Goblin City to take back the child you have stolen, for my will is as strong as yours and my kingdom as great. You have no power over me! (Jim Henson) The sidewinder…

Only those who leave the labyrinth can be happy, but only those who are happy can leave it. (Michael Ende) Embracing the suggestion given by a friend, I recently bought a fabulous book about mazes (“Mazes for Programmers: Code Your Own Twisty Little Passages”): I always loved mazes, even though…

Ansible is a tool to automate system administration tasks. The Ansible Control Node is the machine used to control other machines; the Managed Node is the machine being controlled. Both machines have to run Linux (e.g. two VMs, one WLS and one VM, a local Linux machine and a remote…

Leap Motion is a small device capable of capturing hand motion: let’s use it to understand basic gestures like in the popular “rock, paper, scissors” game. Source: https://github.com/antigones/lm_rock_paper_scissors Thanks to Nicola Guglielmi for the idea of applying gesture recognition to the game. The Leap Motion controller is a small desktop…