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Giovanni Ortolani

@giogix2

Currently a Senior Applied Scientist at Amazon (soon to be changed...) Interested in Computer Vision, Reinforcement Learning, Open Source, Biotech, board games. I'm also into hiking πŸ₯Ύ and running πŸƒ

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Board game stack 

Lord of the Rings
Air, land and sea
The White Castle
Remember our trip
Harmonies
Paladins of the west kingdom
Cascadia
The adventures of Robin Hood
Maracaibo 
Obsession

Board game stack Lord of the Rings Air, land and sea The White Castle Remember our trip Harmonies Paladins of the west kingdom Cascadia The adventures of Robin Hood Maracaibo Obsession

Board games for Christmas! Any games on your list to play during the holiday season?

We're heading to the family home, here's *cough* a few games *cough* we're bringing.

21.12.2024 10:54 πŸ‘ 73 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 21 πŸ“Œ 0

I’ve received β€œThe Quacks of Quedlinburg” as a gift, and that’s going to be our game for the next few days πŸ§™β€β™€οΈπŸ§ͺ🎲

21.12.2024 11:53 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

The strategy is mostly about deciding which cubes to sacrifice. You don’t have a lot of freedom at each turn, so when you think ahead, you mostly need to estimate the what’s the probability to need a certain cube.

21.12.2024 11:42 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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EinStein wΓΌrfelt nicht! - Wikipedia

"EinStein wΓΌrfelt nicht!" is now available in OpenSpiel!

Thanks goes to @giogix2.bsky.social for contributing an implementation of the game.

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/EinStei...

18.12.2024 21:36 πŸ‘ 7 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 0

Thanks a lot for sharing πŸ˜ƒ. It was a lot of fun to build this, and it's also a very fun game to play. Especially when luck is on your side, and the die roll exactly the way you need πŸ˜….

18.12.2024 22:16 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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The video game version of Gloomhaven is also very good...

12.12.2024 13:11 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Skyrim πŸ‰

07.12.2024 11:13 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Helical AI

A new mRNA Bio Foundation Model designed by Helical-ai: Helix-mRNA-v0 (www.helical-ai.com/blog/helix-m...).
A light-weight model (5M parameters) pretrained on a diverse set of 26M mRNA sequences and a total training size of 312B tokens achieving SOTA performance.
Huggingface lnkd.in/dCjpeZz6

04.12.2024 19:30 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

And here's another one I've been watching recently www.youtube.com/watch?v=N3tR....

01.12.2024 16:34 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Ideally, we'd be able to create a system where entities would be composed by the most atomic blocks possible, start from first principles (e.g., molecules -> proteins -> cells -> organisms in nature). Definitely not computationally feasible, unless we set tons of assumptions and constraints.

01.12.2024 16:33 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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The Bibites: Digital Life The Bibites is an Ongoing project to create digital lifeforms. This means genetics, evolution, and natural selection! Feel free to stick around if that kind of stuff is as interesting to you as it is ...

I've always dreamed of building a self-evolving virtual entity that mimics the mechanisms of #evolution. There are several projects doing this, but here's one I really like: www.youtube.com/@TheBibitesD.... I've spent hours watching these videos, and it'll be available as a #game on #steam too!

01.12.2024 16:30 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

I can understand that. It’s a great way to relieve anxiety accumulated by playing Factorio.

27.11.2024 15:21 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Starter pack for ML in the natural sciences. Let me know if you want to be added/removed!

go.bsky.app/LBENVXJ

25.11.2024 23:29 πŸ‘ 10 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 8 πŸ“Œ 1

I enjoy playing board games and I'm passionate about Machine Learning. github.com/google-deepm... from #deepmind combines the two worlds. I really enjoy working on this repo that @sharky6000.bsky.social created. I also built a visualization tool using #pygame on top because I like video games too πŸ™‚.

25.11.2024 20:19 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Thanks a lot for sharing! pygame_spiel and open_spiel are my favourite projects to work in my free time. I'll slowly release new features. The next thing I absolutely want is the ability to choose two bots, since currently one has to be a human. It'll be fun to watch epic battles between models β™ŸοΈπŸŽ²πŸ§ .

25.11.2024 20:05 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

When estimating the probability for an event occurring, the book introduces the concept of "base rate", which reminds me of the concept of "prior" in bayesian probability.

25.11.2024 09:44 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

There’s a bit of that too, but mostly I was thinking about the first few sections, where it explains why pros/cons tables aren't ideal for decision-making. Instead, it suggests adding a weight and probability to each option, similar to how policies work in RL.

25.11.2024 09:41 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Though, there's still a lot of work ahead before I get really good at decision-making πŸ˜….

23.11.2024 16:00 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

I just finished reading "How to Decide: Simple Tools for Making Better Choices" by @annieduke.com. There are a lot of parallels with reinforcement learning if you're into that, but it's definitely an easier read than the book by R. Sutton and A. Barto πŸ˜‚. Great bookβ€”highly recommended!

23.11.2024 15:59 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Hi. Amazing list! Exactly what I was looking for.
I work on a couple of Open Source projects as well occasionaly. I wouldn't mind being added to the list if you don't mind.

22.11.2024 18:30 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Do you like, write, or maintain open-source code or models for machine learning or science? Check out this cool starter pack, by @yoshitomo-cs.bsky.social !

22.11.2024 12:58 πŸ‘ 15 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 0
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Cytomos Secures Β£5M for Drug Discovery Innovation - https://biohackers.media/cytomos-secures-5m-for-drug-discovery-innovation/ - #biohacking #longevity

19.11.2024 19:01 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Ok, I guess my 2nd post will also be about #Cambridge. Clare bridge and King’s College bridge (sorry for the scaffolding).

19.11.2024 19:29 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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In #cambridge (UK) you find these little β€œlibraries” around the city. @grrm.bsky.social as soon as β€œThe Winds of Winter” is done I’m going to add a copy in this one.

18.11.2024 19:02 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0