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# Engineer thesis reading

[our engineer thesis project page](https://policyoptimisation.slack.com/files/US4LUAY9J/FSC78EUAU/agentstatistics_-_new_form.docx)

## Papers
* [Mastering Chess and Shogi by Self-Play with a General Reinforcement Learning Algorithm](https://arxiv.org/abs/1712.01815)
* [Overcoming catastrophic forgetting in neural networks](https://arxiv.org/abs/1612.00796)
* [Matchmaking in multi-player on-line games](https://www.researchgate.net/publication/260086948_Matchmaking_in_multi-player_on-line_games_Studying_user_traces_to_improve_the_user_experience)
* [Analysis of Matchmaking Optimization Systems Potential in Mobile Esports](https://scholarspace.manoa.hawaii.edu/bitstream/10125/59685/0245.pdf)
* [Using Twitter to predict football outcomes](https://arxiv.org/abs/1411.1243v1)
* [Who Will Win It? An In-game Win Probability Model for Football](https://arxiv.org/abs/1906.05029v1)
* [A machine learning framework for sport result prediction](https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2210832717301485)
* [Using social network analysis and gradient boosting to develop a soccer win–lose prediction model](https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0952197618300897)
* [EMERGENT COMPLEXITY VIA MULTI-AGENT COMPETITION](https://arxiv.org/pdf/1710.03748.pdf)
* [Hyper-heuristic General Video Game Playing](http://julian.togelius.com/Mendes2016HyperHeuristic.pdf)


## Articles
* [DeepMind AlphaStar](https://deepmind.com/blog/article/alphastar-mastering-real-time-strategy-game-starcraft-ii)
* [OpenAI Competitive Self-Play](https://openai.com/blog/competitive-self-play/)
* [World Cup Prediction Mathematics Explained](https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/world-cup-prediction-mathematics-explained/)
* [ Predicting the future with the Google Cloud Platform](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YyvvxFeADh8&feature=youtu.be&t=25m20s)
* [Google Cloud Platform goes 8 for 8 in World Cup predictions](https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2014/07/google-cloud-platform-goes-8-for-8-in-soccer-predictions.html)
* [Capture the Flag: the emergence of complex cooperative agents](https://deepmind.com/blog/article/capture-the-flag-science) !!!!
* [Visualizing and Understanding Atari Agents](https://arxiv.org/pdf/1711.00138.pdf)
* [Binomial proportion confidence interval](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binomial_proportion_confidence_interval#)
* [Sample size determination](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sample_size_determination?fbclid=IwAR0vtaVnIJ86cmjkE6ImI2nZfgs2q8yG5imYQDsO_hpLsxlA32sKQVNiTbw)

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