Have you ever wondered how tree structure is formed? What about crystals? And what about more complex stuff? How living beings and societies work? If you would like to improve your understanding of the world a little bit more through a practical point of view this is the course for you.
March 2021 Hyperlink course edition. To follow the lectures if you are not familiar with Colab try this tutorial.
This is a short tutorial about how to model different tree shapes using simple rules.
In this first class we are going to learn how different organisms and natural objects grow.
In this class we are going to learn about genetic algorithms through practical examples.
In this class we are going to talk about how the learning process can be modeled implementing notions like curiosity and reinforcement.
We will learn how to model biological systems like bird flocks and complex societies inspired in SimCity.
We will learn how language can emerge as a need to solve a problem that requires cooperation. Then we will have some fun with text generation models like GPT-2.