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Bernardo Ronquillo Japón
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Bernardo Ronquillo Japón

Bernardo Ronquillo Japn is an Internet of Things (IoT) and robotics expert who has worked for top technology companies since 1995, including Instituto de Astrofsica de Canarias, Gran Telescopio Canarias, Altran, and Alestis Aerospace. Using his skills and experience, he founded The Robot Academy, where he develops open source hardware and software solutions for engineers and makers: Social Robot IO (2015), for the stimulation of children with autistic spectrum disorder; Robot JUS (2016), which helps engineers get deeper technical insights with the Robot Operating System (ROS) when using low-complexity hardware; and IIoT All-in-One (2018) as an industrial IoT training package for assisting companies in their digital transformation process.
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Preparing the environment with TensorFlow, Keras, and Anaconda

Together with Anaconda, which you were instructed to install in the previous chapter, you will now install the machine learning tools TensorFlow and Keras. You will need them to make the neural networks that are required to solve the reinforcement learning tasks:

  • TensorFlow is the low-level layer of your machine learning environment. It deals with the mathematical operations involved in the creation of neural networks. Since they are mathematically resolved as matrix operations, you need a framework that is effective at solving this algebra, and TensorFlow is one of the most efficient frameworks for that. The name of the library comes from the mathematical concept of a tensor, which can be understood as a matrix with more than two dimensions.
  • Keras is the high-level layer of your machine learning environment. This...
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Bernardo Ronquillo Japón

Bernardo Ronquillo Japn is an Internet of Things (IoT) and robotics expert who has worked for top technology companies since 1995, including Instituto de Astrofsica de Canarias, Gran Telescopio Canarias, Altran, and Alestis Aerospace. Using his skills and experience, he founded The Robot Academy, where he develops open source hardware and software solutions for engineers and makers: Social Robot IO (2015), for the stimulation of children with autistic spectrum disorder; Robot JUS (2016), which helps engineers get deeper technical insights with the Robot Operating System (ROS) when using low-complexity hardware; and IIoT All-in-One (2018) as an industrial IoT training package for assisting companies in their digital transformation process.
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