“Oliver Smith is the PM behind the most recent 4 releases of Ubuntu, the most popular cloud infrastructure OS. He led product definition and oversaw the R&D engineering of flagship features. In the absence of directors and VPs, he was able to optimise resource allocation to achieve maximum impact. His ability to understand technical engineering and translate it into a compelling narrative sets him apart. He reaches consensus and buy-in from internal and external stakeholders, with ease. As a staff engineer with more than 15 years of open-source development expertise, he has my vote of confidence in becoming a VP in a variety of medium and large enterprises.”
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Interim Engineering Director for Ubuntu Desktop. Formerly Senior Product Manager for…
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Ubuntu is now getting more aggressive with kernel version selection for a release. Shipping the most bleeding edge version feasible while committing…
Ubuntu is now getting more aggressive with kernel version selection for a release. Shipping the most bleeding edge version feasible while committing…
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For the record, I expect that StarCraft 3 would have had a much bigger budget! :) On July 30th, Stormgate will launch into Early Access on Steam…
For the record, I expect that StarCraft 3 would have had a much bigger budget! :) On July 30th, Stormgate will launch into Early Access on Steam…
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Flutter now runs on RISC-V! 😎 The Toyota Flutter Embedder running on a brand new DC-ROMA II Laptop. #embeddedflutter #riscv64 #flutter #toyota…
Flutter now runs on RISC-V! 😎 The Toyota Flutter Embedder running on a brand new DC-ROMA II Laptop. #embeddedflutter #riscv64 #flutter #toyota…
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Grandmaster level in StarCraft II using multi-agent reinforcement learning
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See publicationMany real-world applications require artificial agents to compete and coordinate with other agents in complex environments. As a stepping stone to this goal, the domain of StarCraft has emerged as an important challenge for artificial intelligence research, owing to its iconic and enduring status among the most difficult professional esports and its relevance to the real world in terms of its raw complexity and multi-agent challenges. Over the course of a decade and numerous competitions1,2,3…
Many real-world applications require artificial agents to compete and coordinate with other agents in complex environments. As a stepping stone to this goal, the domain of StarCraft has emerged as an important challenge for artificial intelligence research, owing to its iconic and enduring status among the most difficult professional esports and its relevance to the real world in terms of its raw complexity and multi-agent challenges. Over the course of a decade and numerous competitions1,2,3, the strongest agents have simplified important aspects of the game, utilized superhuman capabilities, or employed hand-crafted sub-systems4. Despite these advantages, no previous agent has come close to matching the overall skill of top StarCraft players. We chose to address the challenge of StarCraft using general-purpose learning methods that are in principle applicable to other complex domains: a multi-agent reinforcement learning algorithm that uses data from both human and agent games within a diverse league of continually adapting strategies and counter-strategies, each represented by deep neural networks5,6. We evaluated our agent, AlphaStar, in the full game of StarCraft II, through a series of online games against human players. AlphaStar was rated at Grandmaster level for all three StarCraft races and above 99.8% of officially ranked human players.
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