“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…

Let’s learn basic Xamarin development by creating a magic ball app (sources: https://github.com/antigones/xamarin-magic-ball) Xamarin is a platform that allows developers to use a unique business logic code to develop multiplatform applications (Android, iOS and Windows) with .NET. Developing a magic ball application is quite simple, since there is no much…

Let’s “reinterpret” the Blazor example app to develop a small “rolling dice” web app Blazor is a framework from Microsoft, allowing to build interactive web applications using C#. When you develop a web application with Blazor, code can run on the server or totally on the client. In the first…

DeGroot shows how opinions are formed and consensus arises when people or entities take in account others’ opinions to update their own. It also gives an intuition about the meaning of “eigenvector centrality” as a measure of influence. Sources: https://github.com/antigones/streamlit-degroot In the DeGroot model, people have opinions and those opinions…