For questions about artificial intelligence.
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AI strategies for losing positions [closed]
I have a card game that I am analyzing with Maple. Actually, it's a series of card games, one for every parameter k, where k is a natural number (representing the number of ranks of cards used in the ...
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Ranked Preference Matching Algorithm
first dropping the link that will serve as reference: NRMP Residency Matching
I have a sort of side project (nothing riding on it, computational performance not an issue, so feel free to go wild, I ...
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How can be used finite automata, and Markov chains to recognize patterns
how a computational model or a discrete probabilistic model can be used to recognize a pattern, said to recognize future positions of a discrete vector.
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Boolean Algebra Question
my problem is ,Please give the algorithm: how can rewrite an arbitrary propositional formula alfa(α) into a proposional formula beta(β) so that beta does not contain disjunction(∧) and alfa ...
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Mathematical preparation for postgraduate studies in Linguistics
I am an undergraduate student in Mathematics and I would like to continue my postgraduate studies in the harder, more mathematical aspects of Linguistics. What exactly would that include is unknown ...
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Some Questions About Chess
I have to questions about the chess game: please help me to understand it.
1- How can a computer program know if this move or that move is better? It calculates all possbile continuation and examine? ...
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i,j,k values of the theta matrix in neural networks
SO I'm looking at these two neural networks and walking through how the ijk values of Theta correspond to the layer, the node number, and either there are redundant values or I'm missing how the ...
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What would be the shortest path between 2 points when there are objects obstructing the straight path?
How would an algorithm find the shortest distance between 2 points on a horizontal 2d plane , especially when a straight path is not possible? Could it be something on the lines of calculating least ...
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Is there any interesting AI competition now? [closed]
Like google's http://aichallenge.org.
I hope there are more interesting contest.
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Which books /tutorials will be good for these topics for AI computer science student
I have found from the internet that I need to know these topics for understanding Artificial Intelligence:
Matrix algebra: most machine learning models are represented as matrices and vectors. ...
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Recursively Solving a Bellman Equation
Problem Overview
I am to figure out $v_\pi$ of a certain Markov state.
Given Information
A set of actions, $a$ containing ${up, down, left, right}$
$v_\pi(12), v_\pi(13), v_\pi(14)$ (I am given ...
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Mathematics and AI [closed]
I am interested in AI and seeing myself doing research in that field in the future. On that road I have choosen to studying alot of mathematics (currently only algorithms, calculus, lin algebra ) but ...
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Books on AI, programming, optimization
I'm studying math (just started) and I like programming as well (just started this too), is there a career or a branch of research including deep aspect of this two aspects? Is there someone among you ...
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Mathematics base for data mining and artificial intelligence algorithms. [closed]
Could you give me some clarification about data mining and artificial intelligence algorithms? What mathematics base they used for? Could you give me starting point, in mathematics, to understand ...
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Memory of a neural network: is it forever?
As far as I remember a neural network cannot forget anything. Does this mean that no matters how evolved the network is, it's always going to throw me back the right output if I feed it an input?
And ...
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Euclidean & Manhattan Distance
I have a practice problem that I am working on (artificial intelligence), but am unable to calculate the Euclidean and Manhattan distances by hand using the following values:
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First order logic.
In Artificial intelligence, I saw the following question and answer in website.
Question:
Politicians can fool some people all of the time, and they can fool all
people some of the time, ...
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Games with human edge [closed]
Which are some two- or one-player games, where humans far outperforms the best computer programs? And how does the relative edge scale with time allowed to think? (In time frame 1 sec to 8 hours per ...
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Markov Decision Process - Utility Function
Reward R(S) in a Markov Decision Process is a mapping from a State S -> Bounded number. I want to know how a Utility Function is defined for an MDP.
I think it has to be a mapping from a sequence of ...
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Propositional Logic. Algorithm for Deciding Entailment [closed]
I start studying artificial intelligence and logic. There are many things I do not know.
Reading about inference I found that a Knowledge Base KB entails a sentence a if and only if a is true in ...
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What about Genetic Algorithms from a mathematical point of view?
Last year I've attended an Artificial Intelligence course (it was very simple, just a summary of the main ideas); we've seen what a genetic algorithm is and the idea seems very interesting to me.
Now ...
