Genetic Algorithms and Machine Learning for Programmers

Description

Year:
2019
Pages:
234
Language:
English
Format:
PDF, EPUB
Size:
17 MB
ISBN-10:
168050620X
ISBN-13:
978-1680506204
ASIN:
B07PPB8Y7L
(Pragmatic Programmers) 1st Edition

by Frances Buontempo (Author)

Self-driving cars, natural language recognition, and online recommendation engines are all possible thanks to Machine Learning. Now you can create your own genetic algorithms, nature-inspired swarms, Monte Carlo simulations, cellular automata, and clusters. Learn how to test your ML code and dive into even more advanced topics. If you are a beginner-to-intermediate programmer keen to understand machine learning, this book is for you.

Discover machine learning algorithms using a handful of self-contained recipes. Build a repertoire of algorithms, discovering terms and approaches that apply generally. Bake intelligence into your algorithms, guiding them to discover good solutions to problems.

In this book, you will:

Use heuristics and design fitness functions.
Build genetic algorithms.
Make nature-inspired swarms with ants, bees and particles.
Create Monte Carlo simulations.
Investigate cellular automata.
Find minima and maxima, using hill climbing and simulated annealing.
Try selection methods, including tournament and roulette wheels.
Learn about heuristics, fitness functions, metrics, and clusters.