Tag: Machine Learning
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What Netflix knows about you and why it’s a lesson to others…
There has been recent a flurry of articles about Netflix and how they are analysing user behaviour and habits to enhance the recommendations they make. Last week Mohammed Sabah (Senior Data Scientist @ Netflix) presented at Hadoop Summit in San Jose describing some of the ways they do this and the impact of making good recommendations – measurable…
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Navigation Mesh path finding in MMORPG Bots (updated)
One of the biggest challenges in writing a Bot (autonomous character) for an MMORPG is the navigation. You have a few choices, ordered by complexity; Steering: Quite simply, given a destination you steer the character towards that point. If it gets stuck you try jumping, reversing, strafing left/right. This is obviously the most primitive form of…