Category: board-games
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How To Beat Your Dad At Camel Up (Part 5 – Reinforcement Learning State Space Optimization)
In How To Beat Your Dad At Camel Up (Part 4 – Reinforcement Learning) we looked at training a reinforcement learning agent to learn to play Camel Up. There was a problem. Our agent was getting too bogged down in the details! Today, we’re going to fix this and help the agent learn 120 times faster!…
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How Many Ways Are There To Arrange Some Camels?
Recently I’ve been spending a lot of time thinking about the board game Camel Up. If you’ve missed it – check out the series starting here: How to Beat Your Dad At Camel Up. One observation from my last article about reinforcement learning was that the number of game states is very large. This means our…
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How To Beat Your Dad At Camel Up (Part 4 – Reinforcement Learning)
Welcome back! I hope you enjoyed our session on CUDA! Missed it? Catch up here: How to Beat Your Dad At Camel Up (Part 3 – CUDA Baby!). If you’ve missed the whole series so far, start here: How to Beat Your Dad At Camel Up! This is a continuation of our series on how to become…
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How to Beat Your Dad At Camel Up (Part 3 – CUDA Baby!)
Welcome back to another article in our series on winning Camel Up! If you’ve missed part 1, part 2, or our code review, you can find them here: How to Beat Your Dad at Camel Up / How to Beat Your Dad At Camel Up (Part 2) / How To Beat Your Dad At Camel Up (Interlude…
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How To Beat Your Dad At Camel Up (Interlude – Code Review)
Welcome back! This is a small technical interlude in our series on Camel Up. If you’re not up to date, you can find parts 1 & 2 here: How to Beat Your Dad at Camel Up / How to Beat Your Dad At Camel Up (Part 2). Camel Up is a board game about betting on camels…
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How to Beat Your Dad At Camel Up (Part 2)
This is part 2 in a series about learning the deeper mysteries of Camel Up to prove my dad wrong. If you haven’t read it yet, you can find part 1 here. Welcome back! I hope you’ve been applying our takeaways from the last deep dive! Today we’re going to turn up the heat and…
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How to Beat Your Dad At Camel Up
“I like that he’s having fun. I just need him to know how wrong he is.” Mr GrumpyKitten Introduction My dad loves Camel Up. Seriously, this is a game that has brought him countless hours of joy. Despite our expensive game collection, it’s the one that he always requests. For most Millennials obsessed with games…