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Published on April 28, 2015 by Dr. Randal S. Olson 2048 artificial intelligence strategy video games 7 min READ By now, we've all heard of the addictive tile-mashing game called 2048. Last week, I picked up 2048 for the first time and -- true to my nature -- I started designing an AI to beat the game for me the following day. It didn't take me long to find out that there's already some pretty good

Published on March 09, 2015 by Dr. Randal S. Olson genetic algorithm machine learning optimization road trip traveling salesman problem 10 min READ Last week, Tracy Staedter proposed an interesting idea to me: Why not use the same algorithm from my Where's Waldo article to compute the optimal road trip across every state in the U.S.? Visiting every U.S. state has long been on my bucket list, so I

Published on February 03, 2015 by Dr. Randal S. Olson genetic algorithm machine learning optimization traveling salesman problem where's waldo 7 min READ As I found myself unexpectedly snowed in this weekend, I decided to take on a weekend project for fun. While searching for something to catch my fancy, I ran across an old Slate article claiming that they found a foolproof strategy for finding Wa

Published on January 31, 2015 by Dr. Randal S. Olson python upgrade version 6 min READ Remember that Python usage survey that went around the interwebs late last year? Well, the results are finally out and I've visualized them below for your perusal. This survey has been running for two years now (2013-2014), so where we have data for both years, I've charted the results so we can see the changes

Published on June 28, 2014 by Dr. Randal S. Olson graphic design matplotlib python tutorial visualization 14 min READ Want to learn more about data visualization with Python? Take a look at my Data Visualization Basics with Python video course on O'Reilly. It's been well over a year since I wrote my last tutorial, so I figure I'm overdue. This time, I'm going to focus on how you can make beautiful