Oh wow TD Gammon was also partially responsible for inspiring me into a machine learning -> data science direction :) My dad brought me up playing backgammon so I had a fair understanding of all the heuristics involved - it was amazing to see a computer could learn them fairly well by itself.
True about switching fields with ml, after a while in evolvable hardware I did a joint PhD in geography + computer science, and have been making socioeconomic simulations of various kinds for the last 10 years. Nowadays I'm trying to reacquaint myself with core cs research, as looking for a lectureship I realized I'm always going to be stronger teaching cs than geography.
True about switching fields with ml, after a while in evolvable hardware I did a joint PhD in geography + computer science, and have been making socioeconomic simulations of various kinds for the last 10 years. Nowadays I'm trying to reacquaint myself with core cs research, as looking for a lectureship I realized I'm always going to be stronger teaching cs than geography.