Better batting at Baseball (NES) using data science

As you may already know, there is a NES game called Baseball which, like its name suggests, is about baseball. Even 30+ years after its release, the two-player mode is still a lot of fun to play. After a staggering defeat against a friend, I decided to gain insight about the game to better understand the…

AI Learning Excitebike with XGBoost

Following the incredible boost in machine learning applications in the recent years, people have made artificial intelligence (AI) learn many tasks. For example, it has learn to drive cars, translate languages, understand pictures, filter emails, etc. This incredible development now even extends to video games. A notable effort came from Deepmind with a Convolutional Neural Network algorithm…