September 13th is a very special occasion for us: it is also known as World Programmer's Day! Although while True: learn() is not a programming simulator per se, machine learning would not be possible without coding! It might seem a little bit weird, but on this year's Programmer's Day we'd like to talk to you about a coding-free game about coding. In our next big project, Learning Factory, a player embarks on a journey to build a huge factory which is all about understanding cats using the means of machine learning. This time it's for real! Where while True: learn() was mostly simulating a lifestyle of a data scientist, Learning Factory is all about real machine learning: it is using linear regression for calculating optimal price of goods in a store, catering to need of some very picky cats! "Machine learning helps to take all the factors into consideration. But before that would become possible, a player would have to prepare raw data for the algorithm. Actually, this is what 95% of working with machine learning in production is all about. In Learning Factory, we are trying to make this process as graphic and illustrative as possible -- hence the factory building concept. Different kinds of buildings would collect different kinds of data, which then flows to data cluster cores where the mathematical magic is happening. Say, a player wants to build a model which would acknowledge the price of goods, the type of store and something less obvious, like, cats' ears shape. They would have to streamline the data to a cluster core, push a button and let the algorithm calculate the optimum price within the dataset" -- Ivan Kapranov, lead coder at Luden.io You can read the full story in this post. And if you're interested in learning more about machine learning (and/or building automated factories for cats!), it's easy as pie! Here's your short list of options: 1. Join our Discord Server to play Learning Factory's Alpha 2. Subscribe to our E-mail list (which will also allow you to play the Alpha!) 3. Add Learning Factory to your wishlist:
Don't be a stranger! Let us know what you think about our next game and don't hesitate to join our ranks of cat-loving engineers! And in any case: HAPPY PROGRAMMER'S DAY, EVERYONE! The future is digital!