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Schooling Flappy Bird: A Reinforcement Learning Tutorial

Leveraging DeepMind’s breakthrough AI approaches takes some work, but the results are astounding. In this article, Toptal Freelance Deep Learning Engineer Neven Pičuljan guides us through the building blocks of reinforcement learning, training a neural network to play Flappy Bird using the PyTorch framework.

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Neven Pičuljan

Neven Pičuljan

Co-founder of Poze and CEO of an AI R&D/consulting company, Neven has an MCS degree and has built a face-recognition system in TensorFlow.

Developing a Bioinformatics Database for Disulfide Bonds Research

The Protein Data Bank (PDB) bioinformatics database is the world’s largest repository of experimentally-determined structures of proteins, nucleic acids, and complex assemblies. All data is gathered using experimental methods such as X-ray, spectroscopy, crystallography, NMR, etc. This article explains how to extract, filter, and clean data from the PDB to make it suitable for further analysis.

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Viktor Bojović

Viktor Bojović

With a diverse background in science and teaching and his software engineer experience, Victor is a passionate programmer with many talents.

Python Machine Learning Prediction With a Flask REST API

Employing Python to make machine learning predictions can be a daunting task, especially if your goal is to create a real-time solution. However, Tensorflow and Scikit-Learn can significantly speed up implementation.

In this article, Toptal Python Developer Guillaume Ferry outlines a simple architecture that should help you progress from a basic proof of concept to a minimal viable product without much hassle.

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Guillaume Ferry

Guillaume Ferry

Guillaume is a Kaggle expert specialized in ML and AI. He’s experienced in tackling large projects and exploring new solutions for scaling.

How to Approach Machine Learning Problems

How do you approach machine learning problems? Are neural networks the answer to nearly every challenge you may encounter?

In this article, Toptal Freelance Python Developer Peter Hussami explains the basic approach to machine learning problems and points out where neural may fall short.

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Peter Hussami

Peter Hussami

Peter’s rare math-modeling expertise includes audio and sensor analysis, ID verification, NPL, scheduling, routing, and credit scoring.

A Deep Dive Into Reinforcement Learning

Machine learning and artificial intelligence are popular topics, vast domains with multiple paradigms to solve any given challenge.

In this article, Toptal Machine Learning Expert Adam Stelmaszczyk walks us through implementing deep Q-learning, a fundamental algorithm in the AI/ML world, with modern libraries such as TensorFlow, TensorBoard, Keras, and OpenAI Gym.

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Adam Stelmaszczyk

Adam Stelmaszczyk

A PhD candidate specializing in AI and one of Europe’s top tech entrepreneurs, Adam is a team player and active F/OSS contributor.

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One-click Login With Blockchain: A MetaMask Tutorial

Online users are becoming increasingly resistant to traditional email/password registration processes. One-click social logins via Facebook, Google, or GitHub are better, but they come with data privacy trade-offs.

This article introduces a one-click, cryptographically-secure login flow using MetaMask, with all data stored on the app’s own back-end.

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Amaury M

Amaury’s MSc/MEng degrees inform his full-stack work in web and mobile (Node.js, React, React Native) as well as blockchain app development.

Time-locked Wallets: An Introduction to Ethereum Smart Contracts

Launch yourself into Ethereum smart contract development with the Truffle framework! In this tutorial, Toptal Freelance Ethereum Developer Radek Ostrowski shows you how to create a practical ĐApp in the Solidity language, complete with its own ERC20 token.

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Radek Ostrowski

Radek Ostrowski

Radek is a blockchain engineer with an interest in Ethereum smart contracts. He also has extensive experience in machine learning.

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Gabriel Courtemanche

Gabriel is a highly efficient and reliable professional who possesses a broad skill set for web application development. He's been working on a range of products and clients—from working on scalability problems in production engineering teams at Shopify and Autodesk to launching new applications for startups. Most of his work consists of leading technical teams, by creating an easy development environment, fixing technical debts, providing best practices code examples, and mentoring devs.
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