Enterprise Machine Learning in a Nutshell

What I stumbled across a lot lately is the issue of clearly identifying business problems that are applicable to machine learning, especially opposed to traditional programming solutions... The openSAP course "Enterprise Machine Learning in a Nutshell" does an excellent job in exactly that! I will probably dive much deeper into this topic - many of my companies issues in knowledge management seem to be perfectly applicable to machine learning....

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A.I. Experiments

Sometimes I stumble across things that are just jaw dropping. I have read a lot of articles and watched a lot of YouTube videos about AI. Google has great platforms and technology to power this, but what really is fascinating when you find something that steps from behind the glass wall of "me staring at it astonished" to "oh, hi there, let's play". This is what A.I. Experiments is. An experimental Site where you can find an A.I. driven virtual playground. It may seem a little childish at first but then again children grow up really fast and...

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MarI/O - Machine Learning for Video Games

For everybody who want's to get started with the concepts of machine learning in a fun way... As far as I get it, the basic idea to mimic evolutionary or learning based on experience. A computer player in this scenario basically needs: Senses like sight: Abstracting the actual screen to individual items like save ground, blocks/walls, gaps, enemies. Fortunately platforming games like Mario support abstraction really well as sprites can be though of as blocks of the above mentioned types The ability to push buttons on the controller: Well there...

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Software Development on SAP HANA (Update Q4/2016)

Software Development on SAP HANA (Update Q4/2016) In this course, we will focus on the new and improved features that were introduced in SAP HANA SPS 11 and 12. Developers taking this course should be able to get up to speed quickly and begin leveraging these new features to enhance their own productivity, as well… When I just finished up first week's lectures and assignments I must admit I finally feel home. With XSA finally open...

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Google Slides API may power my future Slide Applications

So now Google is publishing its Slides API for programmatic use. This opens up a whole new world of slide generation. This is especially interesting because I have previously been building my own REST Services for a Slide Service that we use for our own SaaS products at SNP Schneider-Neureither & Partner AG - such as the SNP System Scan. Results may look like this and a fully generated using a home-grown REST Service API. open fullscreen in new window As far as the REST API is concerned it takes some slide definition in JSON fomat that...

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