Learning Factory News

UPDATE: v0.6.5 is officially live! Feel free to update ASAP

NOTA BENE: Our specialists were working their paws hands off to prepare this update. Alas, 10 minutes before we were to release it, our machine learning machine has broken unexpectedly. Our game is promised to feature real machine learning, so we decided to postpone the next update until we truly nail it. This update will be released as soon as reasonably possible. Stay tuned. Glory to KOTOVOD!

The mission of KOTOVOD Learning Factory is as simple as it is noble: to generate happiness! Happiness for both humans and cats (well, mostly for cats, because they have paws for hands and are undeniably cute). Although our brave engineers are working days and nights pursuing this dream, they are barely humans.

«Hoomanz ar veri fine for makink katz happy but hoomanz are maed of meat and fat and dont haev fur and also oftenz stoopid. No oofeanz to hoomanz, i iz a hooman mysealf so i know. Iz why hoomanz invented robots and AI machines that arez betterz for makink katz happy. Also i iz a hooman and not a kat, did i tellz you dat olready?», — Dr. Katz, a human person and KOTOVOD’s chief scientist

Competent as they are, humans are imperfect. But they are perfectly capable of dreaming and inventing machines that will help achieve those dreams! And this is what this week’s big feature is all about: all cat stores are now powered by linear regression!

Yes, you have read it right. «KOTOVOD Worker» has mentioned this upcoming feature more than once, but this time it’s finally here to start changing lives! Each engineer is now free to turn on linear regression algorithm in their Smart Cat Stores and watch as the computers are calculating the optimal price for cat goods! Glory to science! Glory to KOTOVOD!

Of course, for the time being it is but an option: prices can still be changed by engineers’ firm (and furless) hands. But could their choices be more accurate and weighed than those made by machine learning algorithms? Only time will tell!

(Although the answer is, obviously, a «no»)

[h2]Version 0.6.5 Released![/h2]

[h3]Gameplay[/h3]

• Linear Regression building can now be constructed to help calculating the optimal price for cat goods in Smart Cat Stores
  
• New type of cats (with fancy backpacks!) will be emerging from Cat Gates
  

[h3]Interface[/h3]

• Various interface improvements, too numerous to be listed, too glorious to not be mentioned
  

[h2]More Engineers Required[/h2]
We want YOU at KOTOVOD! Your participation in our Alpha program will help us create a more bright and enlightened future for cats and humans! Please use the information below to join our ranks:

To play the Alpha, please join our Discord server or sign up for Email list

And of course, don't forget to add Learning Factory to your Wishlist (check out the button on the right of this page!)

Learning Factory's Public Roadmap

KOTVOD needs YOU, engineer!

Yes, you! As you probably have heard already, the purpose of our glorious Learning Factory is to explain some basics of machine learning in a stylish graphic way, so even stupid humans would understand it (cats already know all there's to know about it).

If you don't know this yet, don't hesitate to check out our team's lead coder interview form a couple of weeks ago

One of ML techinques that will empower your Factory will be Linear Regression. So we've made a linear regression machine so you could learn about machine learning while machines learn to learn... Ok, that came off pretty complicated, so, with no further ado, please welcome our MACHINE LEARNING MACHINE for linear regression:

[h3]Option 1[/h3]


[h3]Option 2[/h3]


If you have no idea of how it works and what it does, don't you worry. For now all we need from you is to let us know, which one you like more.

[h3]Do rush to the #learing-factory room on our Discord server and vote today![/h3]

And if you want to get some background first, here's an excerpt from a very comprehensive article about machine learning:

"Regression is basically classification where we forecast a number instead of category. Examples are car price by its mileage, traffic by time of the day, demand volume by growth of the company etc. Regression is perfect when something depends on time.

Everyone who works with finance and analysis loves regression. It's even built-in to Excel. And it's super smooth inside — the machine simply tries to draw a line that indicates average correlation. Though, unlike a person with a pen and a whiteboard, machine does so with mathematical accuracy, calculating the average interval to every dot."

If you have time, go give this article a read, it really is awesome. Or look it up on Wikipedia, if you're brave enough! And then come back to our Discord server and vote for the ML Machine design you find more self-explanatory!

"All iz goink acording to ze paln! So exczitet!"

This was all that Dr. Katz could say on this rather unusual day before rushing for what he called "a very thorogh ispektionz" of a brand new Tier 2 Cat Store! His excitement is very understandable: these shops are meticulously designed to gather even more precise information about Learning Factory's cats' desires. All feline visitors of KOTOVOD facilities are beaming with joy as they explore the stores' shiny new interiors!



KOTOVOD engineers, however, look a bit less festive and way more busy: the new stores require more precise data analysis and research. Most importantly, that research now costs more money, so the prices for goods must be even more optimal. But hey, they knew what job they'd signed up for, and KOTOVOD only recruits the very best! And though the hours are crazy and corporate insurance does not cover psychotherapists services, our heroic engineers will push it to the limit and beyond! Glory to science! Glory to KOTOVOD!

[h2]Version 0.6.4 Released![/h2]

[h3]Gameplay[/h3]

• Data quality is now visibly displayed in the interface
  
• Data quality influences the research speed
  
• Labs now require money to conduct research
  
• The first research do not require data anymore
  
• Introducing Tier 2 Stores that includes a "data collection" modification. It allows gathering data of higher quality that speeds up the research but might decrease the amount of money
  
• Players can now research Cat's Gates and build them
  

[h3]Graphics[/h3]

• Cluster Cores animation updated
  
• Cat Store looks updated
  

[h2]More Engineers Required[/h2]
We want YOU at KOTOVOD! Your participation in our Alpha program will help us create a more bright and enlightened future for cats and humans! Please use the information below to join our ranks:

To play the Alpha, please join our Discord server or sign up for Email list

And of course, don't forget to add Learning Factory to your Wishlist (check out the button on the right of this page!)

Learning Factory's Public Roadmap

At KOTOVOD Learning Factory, we care about what our engineers think! In one of the next update, a fancy new model of Cotton Collector is expected to appear in the Alpha. We are working hard to make it look awesome, but what do YOU think of it? We encourage you to let us know!

[h3]Old version:[/h3]


[h3]New version:[/h3]


[h3]Please head to the #learing-factory room on our Discord server and vote today![/h3]

Back in the XX century, when KOTOVOD was founded by Dr. Katz and his brave team of scientists, the Union was all about planned economy, and all the cats would get the same rations of (sometimes poorly cooked) food.

But modern times require modern solutions! Although our cats have no shortage of money, our scientists’ mission is to understand what cats REALLY want — which is why the factory’s engineers are building stores that sell cat goods of exquisite quality. Market analysts would then meticulously study the sales’ data to ensure maximum level of catisfaction. And now their jobs have become way easier, thanks to the new graphic system of sales display. All our analysts can now monitor cat economic activities from the stores’ control panel.



And who can predict cat desires better than other cats? KOTOVOD diversity policy implies hiring specially trained cat analysts. Each of them holds a PhD in catology and is an expert in cat-to-human negotiations. With these bad boys and girls on board, empowered by machine learning, the factory’s prediction quality is higher than before!

«Iz brekthru!», - Dr. Katz comments in his weekly memo. - «A smol step for humanz, an even smoler step for katz (katz liek to sleep moar then theys liek to wolk), but a huge leap for civilization!»



We will keep following the factory’s progress, as friendship and understanding between the two species grows stronger by day! Glory to KOTOVOD!

[h2]Version 0.6.3 Released![/h2]

[h3]Gameplay[/h3]

• Sales stats are now visible from a store's menu
  
• Total amount of money is also clearly visible in each store's menu
  
• Clicking on a cluster core will now display the list of raw data, the list of data features and the scheme for transition of the former to the latter
  

[h3]Graphics[/h3]

• Updated looks and animation for Labs and Data Extractors
  

[h2]More Engineers Required[/h2]
We want YOU at KOTOVOD! Your participation in our Alpha program will help us create a more bright and enlightened future for cats and humans! Please use the information below to join our ranks:

To play the Alpha, please join our Discord server or sign up for Email list

And of course, don't forget to add Learning Factory to your Wishlist (check out the button on the right of this page!)

Learning Factory's Public Roadmap