Will Shortz Presents Ferocious KenKen
Author: Tetsuya Miyamoto
Publisher: Macmillan
Published: 2009-09-15
Total Pages: 325
ISBN-13: 0312595611
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAre you tough enough? Tkae on this collection of 200 devilishly difficult KenKen puzzles!
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The Big Book of Small Python Projects
Author: Al Sweigart
Publisher: No Starch Press
Published: 2021-06-25
Total Pages: 433
ISBN-13: 1718501242
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBest-selling author Al Sweigart shows you how to easily build over 80 fun programs with minimal code and maximum creativity. If you’ve mastered basic Python syntax and you’re ready to start writing programs, you’ll find The Big Book of Small Python Projects both enlightening and fun. This collection of 81 Python projects will have you making digital art, games, animations, counting pro- grams, and more right away. Once you see how the code works, you’ll practice re-creating the programs and experiment by adding your own custom touches. These simple, text-based programs are 256 lines of code or less. And whether it’s a vintage screensaver, a snail-racing game, a clickbait headline generator, or animated strands of DNA, each project is designed to be self-contained so you can easily share it online. You’ll create: • Hangman, Blackjack, and other games to play against your friends or the computer • Simulations of a forest fire, a million dice rolls, and a Japanese abacus • Animations like a virtual fish tank, a rotating cube, and a bouncing DVD logo screensaver • A first-person 3D maze game • Encryption programs that use ciphers like ROT13 and Vigenère to conceal text If you’re tired of standard step-by-step tutorials, you’ll love the learn-by-doing approach of The Big Book of Small Python Projects. It’s proof that good things come in small programs!
Krazydad Two Not Touch Volume 1: 360 Star Battle Puzzles to Preserve Your Sanity in These Trying Times
Author: Jim Bumgardner
Publisher: Krazydad Two Not Touch
Published: 2020-07-27
Total Pages: 92
ISBN-13: 9781946855367
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrom krazydad, constructor of the wildly popular and addictive puzzles published in The New York Times as Two Not Touch, here are 360 of your favorite Star Battle puzzles. These puzzles will provide a healthy diversion for you in these challenging times, and help you make it to the other side with your sanity intact! Includes an instructive and pithy tutorial.
Windows 10 For Dummies
Author: Andy Rathbone
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Published: 2015-08-10
Total Pages: 432
ISBN-13: 1119049369
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIllustrates the new features of Windows 10.
Sudoku Variants
Author: Conceptis Puzzles
Publisher: Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
Published: 2006-08
Total Pages: 154
ISBN-13: 9781402741111
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEveryone knows sudoku is enjoyable--but these addictive puzzles come in endless variations too! They range from simple to very difficult, and can take almost no time to finish...or require many hours. This entertaining collection showcases a wide range of possibilities, offering solvers who have become accustomed to the standard rules and grids an exciting new challenge. Select from Mega Sudokus that provide a real workout; Diagonals or Odd and Even versions with extra constraints; Sum Sudokus that merge with kakuro; and Multisudoku with overlapping puzzles. There's something for every level--12 x 12 puzzles, ones with irregularly shaped areas, even Mini Sudoku--and lots of fun for everyone.
Learning to Play
Author: Aske Plaat
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: 2020-12-23
Total Pages: 330
ISBN-13: 3030592383
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this textbook the author takes as inspiration recent breakthroughs in game playing to explain how and why deep reinforcement learning works. In particular he shows why two-person games of tactics and strategy fascinate scientists, programmers, and game enthusiasts and unite them in a common goal: to create artificial intelligence (AI). After an introduction to the core concepts, environment, and communities of intelligence and games, the book is organized into chapters on reinforcement learning, heuristic planning, adaptive sampling, function approximation, and self-play. The author takes a hands-on approach throughout, with Python code examples and exercises that help the reader understand how AI learns to play. He also supports the main text with detailed pointers to online machine learning frameworks, technical details for AlphaGo, notes on how to play and program Go and chess, and a comprehensive bibliography. The content is class-tested and suitable for advanced undergraduate and graduate courses on artificial intelligence and games. It's also appropriate for self-study by professionals engaged with applications of machine learning and with games development. Finally it's valuable for any reader engaged with the philosophical implications of artificial and general intelligence, games represent a modern Turing test of the power and limitations of AI.
Expert Sudoku
Author: Nikoli Publishing
Publisher: Workman Publishing Company
Published: 2009-11-19
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780761158356
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExpert Sudoku is an all-new collection of handcrafted puzzles for the expert puzzle-solver. This is the book that challenges skilled solvers and Sudoku-lovers at the top level—every one of the 320 puzzles is rated "difficult." Good luck!
Pattern-Based Constraint Satisfaction and Logic Puzzles (Second Edition)
Author: Denis Berthier
Publisher:
Published: 2015-07-11
Total Pages: 568
ISBN-13: 9781326350642
DOWNLOAD EBOOK""Pattern-Based Constraint Satisfaction and Logic Puzzles (Second Edition)"" develops a pure logic, pattern-based perspective of solving the finite Constraint Satisfaction Problem (CSP), with emphasis on finding the ""simplest"" solution. Different ways of reasoning with the constraints are formalised by various families of ""resolution rules,"" each of them carrying its own notion of simplicity. A large part of the book illustrates the power of the approach by applying it to various popular logic puzzles. It provides a unified view of how to model and solve them, even though they involve very different types of constraints: obvious symmetric ones in Sudoku, non-symmetric but transitive ones in Futoshiki, topological and geometric ones in Map colouring, Numbrix and Hidato, non-binary arithmetic ones in Kakuro and both non-binary and non-local ones in Slitherlink. It also shows that the most familiar techniques for these puzzles can be understood as mere application-specific presentations of the general rules.
Research and Development in Intelligent Systems XXV
Author: Frans Coenen
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2008-12-02
Total Pages: 372
ISBN-13: 9781848821705
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe papers in this volume are the refereed technical papers presented at AI-2008, the Twenty-eighth SGAI International Conference on Innovative Techniques and Applications of Artificial Intelligence, held in Cambridge in December 2008. They present new and innovative developments in the field, divided into sections on CBR and Classification, AI Techniques, Argumentation and Negotiation, Intelligent Systems, From Machine Learning To E-Learning and Decision Making. The volume also includes the text of short papers presented as posters at the conference. This is the twenty-fifth volume in the Research and Development series. The series is essential reading for those who wish to keep up to date with developments in this important field. The Application Stream papers are published as a companion volume under the title Applications and Innovations in Intelligent Systems XVI.
Differential Calculus and Sage
Author: William Granville
Publisher:
Published: 2009-08-19
Total Pages: 374
ISBN-13: 9781448662197
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis text covers the differential calculus, including properties of the derivative and applications. Particular emphasis is on geometric applications. There is a large selection of exercises (most with answers) and most claims are provided with a complete proof.
