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- My name is Ray. - I'm Yoni.
- I'm Ritif. - I'm Roman Astrop.
- Tomasz Potak. - Hello, my name is Raul.
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- I am doing some last minute training for the finals.
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- Leaving Singapore for Las Vegas.
See you in 20 hours.
- See you guys in Las Vegas.
- See you in Vegas.
- See you all soon in Vegas.
- Last bread before re:Invent.
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- 17 countries, thousands of developers.
165 miles of track and 13,000 laps later, we've made it!
AWS re:Invent 2019 in Las Vegas.
The finish line in our race to crown the winner
of the DeepRacer Championship Cup.
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64 of the world's best DeepRacers
begin this week as finalists.
Only 16 will survive the knockout round.
Three finalists advance.
But at the end of the week, life from the Keynote stage,
it's winner take all!
- [Ryan] Welcome to the world's
first autonomous racing league.
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Developers of every skill level
from all corners of the globe
compete for the ultimate prize in machine learning.
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Welcome, to DeepRacer TV!
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- [Ryan] Well hello ladies and gentlemen.
Welcome to re:Invent 2019.
- It's gonna be an exhilarating 96 hours
on planet DeepRacer, Ryan.
A lot to look forward to right here, right now in the Aria.
- This is the last chance qualifier.
One last chance for three developers
to race their way into a round of 64.
Talk about pressure.
Already a huge line going out the door.
Here we go: One last chance to dance.
Coming around, and it does not look like it's gonna happen.
- [Marc] Every single second counts, and oh, unfortunately
DeepRacer acting up on the exit section of the hairpin.
Hit the throttle, and look at DeepRacer go!
(audience sighs) Unfortunately, losing
control of the positioning on the track.
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- Joe, you're back!
- I couldn't give up.
- That is a phrase I love!
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- I'm Joe Nielsen with Slalom Consulting.
I competed in July, at the New York Summit.
(audience sighs) Finished in 6th place.
But I really wanted to compete again,
so I came out here to re:Invent to try
to make the knockout rounds.
Having fun?
- Yeah.
- Bought a new house, not just for DeepRacer.
(Joe laughs) And I cleared out the basement
and started building tracks down there.
All right, I've constricted labor today.
I had to pay my kids to help me, and they support me on it,
as long as the allowance is there.
(Joe laughs)
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- [Ryan] Joseph will be on track next.
- I check on my models that I just spent last 30 minutes
trying to refine, and none of them
are getting guaranteed reliability.
- [Ryan] This is his moment, with four minutes on the clock.
- [Joe] Sure enough-- - [Marc] DeepRacer,
taking that wall head-on.
- [Joe] When I see the car go off on those turns.
- [Marc] Oh, again!
- I know immediately, that type of action
is like an over fitting action.
- [Ryan] Looks like he's gonna switch models.
Not much time left.
- [Marc] Ooh, look at that exceleration!
- It starts, it makes a complete lap.
- [Marc] This is looking extremely strong as well.
- [Joe] It makes another complete lap.
- [Marc] Ladies and gentlemen, we have ourselves
a beautiful lap time here.
- I thought, "Thank you!"
- [Marc] Countdown clock hits zero,
and ladies and gentlemen, put your hands together
for these sole sub-10 second time, 9.38 for CodingJoe.
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- I am super-happy, super-relieved.
- [Ryan] The sand has run out of the hour glass.
Time has run out--
- Is the other trophy bigger than this one?
(Joe laughs)
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- [Marc] And Ryan, it is now official.
We know the names and identities of the there's developers
that will be moving into the round of 64.
- For these three competitors, they can celebrate right now.
But their competition is about to level up!
Tomorrow, 64 of the world's best DeepRacers
are gonna challenge everyone.
But only 16 will survive to advance to the next round.
I can't tell you how excited I am for this!
- [Marc] From Ryan Myrehn, and myself, Marc Chavet,
we cannot wait to see you tomorrow.
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- Welcome to the MGM Grand Garden Arena.
The beginning of two days of knockout rounds.
- It's gonna be pressure packed for sure.
- Today is the first day anyone has been able
to physically compete on the all-new 2019 re:Invent track.
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We partnered with Advance Analytics from AWS.
And it's competitors enter the track,
I'm getting all sorts of additional data
about percentage possibilities.
So these are the same kind of analytics
we're seeing with NextGen stats on the NFL
or NASCAR or Formula 1 real-time analytics.
And we've got them now here at DeepRacer.
- [Marc] For the thousands in attendance,
and the millions watching around the world,
are you
ready!
Developers!
Start your engines!
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We do have our winner at the AWS Summit
at Sydney, Matt Kerrison on deck right here.
Matt just getting in tuned here to the new track.
(audience sighs)
As he goes heading straight to the left.
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- App trick again, with the number eight spot
on the leaderboard here at the moment.
- Next up on the rack is Roger from Taipei.
And I would watch out for him.
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- My name is Roger Chu.
I come from National Taichung University in Taiwan.
And our research lab is called
Computer Games and Intelligence Lab,
leaded by our professor Ichung.
I went to the Taipei Summit Circuit and I got first place.
Me and Eric, my teammate, was writing an AI program
for a chess game, using reinforcement learning.
We got several gold medals around the world.
- [Ryan] Roger has been able to complete
a fair number of laps.
62% without being forced to reset.
That's a pretty hight number.
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- [Marc] Beautiful performance so far.
Roger, clocking 9.528.
- Roger has taken over the lead as it stands right now.
- Roger, what are you doing that's
different than everyone else?
- We have done tons of testing and training.
We tried to simplify the reward function.
The most important thing is the progress.
So if it can reach a big progress very fast,
then it is a good reward.
I have been working non-stop. (upbeat abstract music)
- He is at first place, and I don't see anyone else
coming close to even the 10 second barrier.
We don't know how fast this track is going to be.
Scientists believe that there's a maximum
time of eight seconds, based on how fast the wheels can turn
and how many meters the track is.
- Just hanging out with the reining defending, undisputed
Champion of the World, Rick Fish in the flesh.
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- I'm Rick Fish, Co-Founder of Jigsaw XYZ.
Defending 2018 Champion for DeepRacer.
- [Ryan] 51.50, there's it is!
- But also here with Tony, who's won a place
through the Virtual League.
Mixed feelings of being here,
we've left a colleague back in London.
MattC, he won the London Summit.
Unfortunately, he had to do an operation,
and therefore, he couldn't be with us.
We wish him all the best, and I'm sure
he'll be back next year, and be one of the main contenders.
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- [Marc] DeepRacer, looking extremely strong
with union jack on the back of it as well.
Beautiful customization.
He has enough time to go out and get a solid run.
- [Audience] Oh!
- Ooh, DeepRacer acting up somewhat
here at the start finish line.
Unfortunately, there's a shifting somewhat to the left.
- While he's not in the top four right now,
the analytics like what he's doing.
They're still giving him an 11.4% chance
of getting a lab good enough to qualify for the top four.
- I just posted a 14 second time.
A lot better than 51.5 seconds.
So thumbs up to that!
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- [Marc] EcoSoup-- - [Ryan] That's our
New York Champion on the track.
- It's so great to run into Atchima again.
In New York City, she pulled out a last second win
to take the trophy--
- [Ryan] Are you serious!
- She's had some time to work on her model.
We might see something good.
- [Ryan] MicosSoup, just checking in with another lap.
10.762, the best for MicoSoup.
Currently in the second spot.
- I'm really pro women in tech.
I would encourage a lot more females to join.
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in the 12th spot, Yesper and Kasper takes us back
to our first episode of DeepRacer TV at Amsterdam.
- Yesper and Kasper.
- [Yesper and Kasper] Yeah.
- Congratulations, we hope see you in Las Vegas in December.
- Definitely!
Well a lot happened since we won in Amsterdam.
My face got recognized, Kasper gets recognized.
Even in the company, like people just,
"Hey, you're from the DeepRacer."
Like, "Yes, yes, so."
And also here at the venue, there were some people saying,
"Ah, you really inspired us."
- Las month was quite a expensive
month for me because I was married.
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- So his life's over now.
(Yesper and Kasper laugh)
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- Hot Data Lab on the track.
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(audience sighs)
Hot Data Lab did not improve enough to make it.
- Now it's time to party!
(Yesper laughs)
- We go to the casino, spent all our money.
(Yesper laughs)
Drink a little too much.
(Yesper laughs)
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- [Marc] She is the fastest DeepRacer
developer on planet Earth.
- [Ryan] Our Tokyo Champion, Sola at DNP.
(audience cheers and applauds)
- The crowds have noticed her.
She is becoming a legend.
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(Sola speaks in foreign language)
- [Marc] This is Sola!
(horns blow)
- [Ryan] Three,
two,
one!
Sola's four minutes have begun.
- [Marc] Look at the acceleration here.
DeepRacer that's hugging the track, but staying on.
Oh, here we have it, Ryan.
This might be a, ooh we have ourselves a beautiful time!
- [Ryan] And indeed, a new track record, 9.4 seconds!
- How if build model: Training about eight hours.
And the reward function is very simple.
The most important is stability rather than speed.
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- [Ryan] We have a CodingJoe Slalom,
who is our champion in round 22
of the DeepRacer League season,
just last night 10.25 seconds.
- I used the formula of progress squared over steps squared.
I was able to a lot better results with my formula.
After I factored in space time warping
of the stimulator to rule real life.
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- Sim-to-real: Getting from the
virtual world to the physical world.
Say you're an astronaut, you don't train
for outer space by going into outer space.
You find a simulator, like a pool,
that can simulate the experience of micro-gravity.
But a swimming pool isn't exactly outer space.
The same thing happens with DeepRacer.
In the virtual world, it tries to emulate
everything in the physical world:
gravity, friction, drift.
But it's still not the same as being
on felt under the lights.
Translating from virtual to reality, that's sim-to-real.
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- [Ryan] And then we see Debro,
which is Darren Broderick from Ireland.
One of our wildcards, representing Liberty Mutual.
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- My name is Darren Broderick,
I'm senior software developer at Liberty Mutual.
And it just came up as an email:
Who wants to be on a DeepRacer team?
I had to Google what that even was.
And racing cars with machine learning,
yes I'm all for that.
And DeepRacer's actually my first
intro into machine learning.
- He watched Sola on the DeepRacer TV videos from Tokyo.
And she inspired him.
- [Darren] Just those center line models.
Just round, and round, and round.
Set world records, settin' one this mornin'.
And it's not a fluke for her, she's just that good.
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- [Ryan] Here we go, promising start!
It stayed on track.
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Coming over, looking at the unofficial time.
He's gonna like it folks.
- [Marc] Debro clocked a superb time of 9.331.
- Step, speed, progress: Those are my favorite parameters.
And then loads of waypoints, which seem
to be a big winner for a lot of tracks.
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- [Ryan] It's been a really fun day.
Action packed, with tons of developers coming through.
- [Marc] Representing The Land of Japan, Ohno Fumiaki.
(Ohno speaks in foreign language)
- [Translator] I've been submitting to DeepRacer races,
Virtual Races, every month.
(Ohno speaks in foreign language)
But after the 2019 re:Invent course was announced,
we didn't have much time, so we made a course
with a vinyl blue sheet and duct tapes.
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- [Ryan] Fumiaki in a pretty good position,
looking to try and advance to the round of 16.
- Clocking a 9.170, a stella performance out there.
- Fumiaki, from DNP, not as good as Sola,
but certainly, at this point,
that's number one and number two
heading into the elimination rounds.
- The folks from DNP, they just rocked
the party for all the season.
I'm expecting that they rock over here as well.
Because like, how could they not?
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- [Marc] Ready to get this show on the road in the UK,
Tomasz Ptak racer named Red Centric,
clocking 8.034 on the Virtual Circuit.
- Since London, ooh, so much happened.
We created like a community channel that we could talk on.
Initially, it was like a London one.
Within pretty much a month, it became a global one.
Now it's like over 1,200 people over there.
We've been helping each other to learn how to race.
So we're meeting now, and that's really awesome!
- [Marc] Ooh, that's an interesting area right there.
A DeepRacer going the other way.
(audience sighs) That's the wrong way!
It's the other way DeepRacer!
- It fell out of track, but returned
in the opposite direction, and then just made
a glorious lap around the track over there.
- [Marc] Twisting, turning and bending
all throughout the track.
- [Tomasz] It's not me, it's the free spirit of my car.
This age maker notebook, there is a little secret
hidden parameter over there where you can
train your model to go both ways.
So yeah, that's what my model did.
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- In the tournament of 64, only 16 DeepRacers
survive to advance to the final knockout round tomorrow.
Tomasz Ptak came in at 10.10 seconds.
He's out!
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We have to say good by to some people
that we've been following all along.
Matt Kerrison is out.
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LYndon Leggate and Tony J.
♪ Is how far I feel from you ♪
Raul, Kasper, and Yesper.
Good people who've raced well.
This was the end of their day.
♪ Even ♪
♪ Thought we're ♪
♪ Standing in the same room ♪
We're gonna have a new champion in 2019.
Rick Fish will not repeat.
♪ It hurts but you know it's true ♪
CodingJoe.
Joe from Slalom, comes in at 10.25 seconds.
Not enough, we have to say goodbye to CodingJoe.
♪ Was not a single thing we can do ♪
- I'll have to repurpose the track
at home as a dance floor for my daughter.
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But I'm still expensing my last couple a months of AWS.
(Joe laughs) (upbeat pop music)
- The field of 16 is set.
Sola now owns the world record on two tracks.
She is the number one overall competitor.
Darren, who qualifies through Liberty Mutual.
He is absolutely gunning for Sola.
Niro, from DNP, Eric and Roger, classmates
from the Computer Gaming and Intelligence Department.
We've got Fumiaki, also from team DNP.
Atchima, she advances!
We have now locked in truly the
fastest 16 DeepRacers in the World.
Tomorrow will be the first time our DeepRacers
will actually compete head-to-head.
- [Marc] Doubel elimination format as well.
We're gonna be seeing some high intensity,
action packed adventures.
- At the end of the day, we reduce the pool
from our 16 finalists to 3 competitors
that will be live on the re:Invent stage,
trying to be the 2019 DeepRacer Champion.
- Congratulations to those who have punched
their tickets to the round of 16,
as we close out the day at MGM,
and the Grand Arena, here in Las Vegas.
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