Hardware and software requirements
The examples in this book were implemented and tested using Python version 3.11. I assume that you’re already familiar with the language and common concepts such as virtual environments, so I won’t cover in detail how to install packages and how to do this in an isolated way. The examples will use the previously mentioned Python type annotations, which will allow us to provide type signatures for functions and class methods.
Nowadays, there are lots of ML and RL libraries available, but in this book, I tried to keep the list of dependencies to a minimum, giving a preference to our own implementation of methods over the blind import of third-party libraries.
The external libraries that we will use in this book are open source software, and they include the following:
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NumPy: This is a library for scientific computing and implementing matrix operations and common functions.
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