A mathematical optimization tool to schedule smart working days and plan returns to the office — Introduction During covid-19 several teams were constrained to work from home entirely. Fortunately, the situation has partially improved during the last year and in many countries, teams are being allowed to partially return to the office. …

How reinforcement learning can be applied to find optimal strategies at 7½ (a game really similar to Blackjack!) — Introduction “Winner, Winner, Chicken Dinner!”.In the movie 21, Ben Campbell and his team counted cards to win at blackjack, one of the most interesting and studied casino games, proving that mathematics and statistics indeed can be used to boost the common strategies used in these games. Since then, the scientific community…

A gentle introduction to reinforcement learning: from agents and environments to state values and Bellman equation — Introduction Reinforcement learning is one of the most exciting and promising research topics of AI. During the last few years, it has repeatedly proven to be one of the most effective research fields, able to defeat humans in many environments. In 2016 an RL agent beat Lee Sedol in the game…

Introduction I always wished to apply data science to sport. And I always wished to make a difference with data science applied to sport. Basketball is an amazing sport which is not much affected by isolated episodes: schemas and tactics do usually have an effective contribution on the final score…

Introduction #Motivation Cryptocurrencies are one of the most disruptive technologies in recent years. Nowadays, the total capitalization of the market reached $278 bilions and it was calculated that 24 million people invested in Bitcoin (with Bitcoin I mean the whole market, I use bitcoin to refer to the single cryptocurrency). Even…