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Hacking Flappy Bird with Machine Learning

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Re: Hacking Flappy Bird with Machine Learning

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I was waiting for something like this, but I expected somebody to build a flappy bird playing robot :) Do you know some good literature for machine learning 101? Where to start?

There's a great Machine Learning course up on Coursera from Stanford: https://www.coursera.org/course/ml

Re: Hacking Flappy Bird with Machine Learning

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Very cool! It's remarkable that you can get a good score with effectively only two features: vertical distance from the lower pipe and horizontal distance from the next pair of pipes.

I suspect you could cut the training time by an order of magnitude with a different optimization algorithm, or just by varying alpha. For example, have you considered trying something like a line search? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Line_search

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