I'll be honest, if i can get several million dollars worth of AI research as my gang mate, i don't care. I'd even let the thing join my corp if it could fit and fly a decent pvp ship. But the learning curve is hard for a person, i doubt a machine could do it without lots of specifics scripted in. But it's fun to speculate if it would be a highsec griefer, lowsec pirate, carebear, 0.0 nano-nut, or sit in an asteroid belt and mine all day?
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The best solution i've come up with is keep the units as simple as possible. In many cases a FeedForward net with 4inputs, 8 neurons in a hidden layer, and 3 outputs scales pretty well and behaves like an intelligent insect. This was good for builders and other economy based units but seriously lacking for combat units. If the nets are simple enough you can even build hash tables for input & output and skip the all the computation completely for known values.
I really appreciate the suggestion. I'm having a hard time figuring out how to keep the player busy since most of the busy work is out of their hands. I'm going with an idea for a commander unit that you directly control (and gives bonuses) so you feel more involved in the battles & exploration. There is still something missing though : /
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I've been in love with NeuralNets since first sight. After a few projects i really wanted to try my hand at a game. I came up with an idea for an RTS that was something like this: The majority of your units were ai, FF nets that evolved genetically. So you don't have to micro manage your economy or patrols or anything. You say, i want a factory here and your builders will find the resources needed and build that factory. They will have to learn the optimal way of doing this. The most successful individuals are the blueprints for the next generation. If that building is destroyed your command still stands, you want a freaking factory in that spot.. so they will toil away and continue building it. The battle side was supposed to be similar but i haven't gotten around to it. But the idea is an RTS that frees you up from the micro & details and let's you focus on the strategy aspect. A side effect is your units become unique over time, so even though your untis may be very successful on one map, a different type of terrain really makes life difficult for them for a few generations.
Right now they learn how to gather materials and move it to construction sites. Actually a lot of fun to watch. But it is still a long long way from anything resembling a game.
Back on topic though. An AI that adapts to it's opponent's weaknesses is well within reach of any game developer. The tough part with genetic and nnet AI is lack of control. You can't easily script a sequence and you can't guarentee what the user/customer will experience. I have had degree's of success over "difficulty" by restricting how many ticks of "thought" a net gets per second. But even then, the net will eventually adapt to this slow thinking.
I usually push over 7gigs upsteam each day and download about the same. The cable connection can do more, but i shape it to something reasonable. That's roughly 200gb a month for what i consider normal use. Most of it is legit, i seed fansubs, ebooks, isos, and some of the band is offsite backup for my projects. I consider all this bandwidth essential for actively participating in the internet today.
I couldn't imagine what a fresh steam install would do to a subscriber with a 20gb cap. Let alone a full WoW or Warhammer install or something else obscenely large. Bandwidth caps are fine in my book, but they need to be something reasonable. We can't have today's content ecosystem on 20gb caps.
Before broadband I had a 2nd phone line and a RH box with an external 28.8 modem connected 24/7. Downloading all the RPMs/tarballs for Enlightenment took a freaking week. But i shared them with all my buds locally. Later in life I had a friend at my ISP, we would lanparty at 2am (yay for nightshift) and literally crush the town's pipe.
Heck, Windows Cloud will demand constant web access to even function. mmm, damn.. i got way way offtrack : / Anyways, i consider bandwidth essential for actively participating in the net. The more band, the more involved you can become.
I truely enjoyed Enterprise. A storyline that actually progressed from episode to episode *gasp*
DS9 developed a good storyline, but wow it took a few seasons. Voyager felt like a continuous story because at the end of the episode Janeway would say, "Tom, set a course for home." But rarely did a plot stretch more than a few episodes. But seriously, DS9's dominion war and Voyager's whole borg thing saved those shows.
I agree with your comment but i'd like to add that sometimes zero day stuff just sucks balls and there isn't much you can do. Sometimes it isn't the OS's fault either, but the software on top. This is where a real sysadmin shines.. he can isolate the problem and hack up a solution within minutes and apply it without regard for testing.
It's kind of a joke that privates come with a sleep button installed on their ass. It's a common thing for new soldiers to develop. Some even learn to sleep with eyes cracked a bit.. looks like they are still awake.
The point i was trying to make is that anyone else can come and see it as well. If there is one and only one video feed of the event we end up in the same place as before, all our trust in one group of people.
Third party verification is essential in almost everything. You need a witness to get married, we need "co-signers" for ssl to work..
But like you said, we need someone there we trust. There can be trust in many opposing groups showing the same infomation. My opinion of course : /
or it could be about no oversight of the gambling sites. No guarantee you will actually get paid if you win. People complain about black-box voting machines but somehow black-box gambling machines are acceptable?
I think the key difference is one event physically happens that anyone can watch to verify and the other is digital and has to be taken on blind trust.
But i agree, it is discriminatory. They should have allowed some sort of 3rd party overwatch & tax to authorize specific online gambling sites.
I really enjoyed Perplex City, one of the most fun puzzle games ever made. The game is effectively over pending Season 2. But you can still find some season 1 cards in original foil packs sometimes. Still fun to play, even without the $200,000 prize.
S3 is from the age of 3dfx cards and pre Nvidia Geforce cards. I don't remember any of their cards being very successful? Other than some late Savage cards, but even then, not equal to 3dfx, ATI, or Nvidia offerings.
I still have stuff with 3dfx logos.. i miss them:(
To my knowlege, most Muslims cannot read the Koran. They might read translations or interpretations, but certainly not the true Koran itself. This is one of the key functions of the religious leader (Shiek) in an islamic tribal society, to read and translate the Koran.
mmm, i wasn't trying to shoot your comment down. I just wanted to show that very few Muslims can memorize the Koran because so much of the written language itself is subject to interpretation. Most muslims will argue that the Koran itself cannot be translated to another language at all.
It's not devolving, there's no such thing. People will evolve to best adapt to the environment over a long period of time. If the best way to survive is have the "talking shit and lying out your ass" trait then you'll start to see it more. If rich & smart people aren't reproducing as much then apparently there is a level of stupidity and poverty required for reproduction. Though that is not necessarily a bad thing. Nature doesn't give a fuck about money or intellect, only the ability to survive the longest and create the largest amount of progeny.
For years now i've been using a $4 cassette tape adapter to plug the Ipod into my Jeep. And yes, that means i have an ancient Ipod the size of a brick with a screen in various shades of gray:(
Pilots are fairly invulnerable since they have clones (make sure it's up to date!). But ships.. that's a whole different story. If your ship pops in battle.. it's gone. Forever. Period. Some modules are gone with it and unrecoverable. A portion of your loot remains with your wreck for anyone to take. Ship losses don't affect you much at first, but at you progress to more high-tech or bigger ships, it can take weeks to replace a loss.
Friendly tip: Don't take it into battle if you can't afford a replacement!
You are completely hung up on the skill and equipment thing. Grab a Rifter with all tech 1 rat loot garbage and fleet up with your corp. I promise you'll have a shit tonne of fun and score some kills. Who needs shields and armor?! Just a few guns and a warp scramble man!
One of my Favorite episodes from all the Star Treks. Best part was that the time bubble around the planet prevented the inhabitants from communicating or interacting with the galaxy, their SETI program was ultimately a failure and they didn't understand why.
Couple of things.. the US Military is insane about mental health. Any vet literally gets a lifetime "come in for free" card. Not only that, but they call and mail you shit all the time about it. Your comment about injured soldiers losing pay and not being taken care of is mis-directed. That particular problem is for National Guard and Reserve and is the responsibility of the state government once released from national duty. It is a failure of the State's gov and State's reserve components. But to be fair, States never had to deal with this type of thing in the recent past.
The only other thing i'd like to comment about is that poor UAV. Commanders have always had this failure to understand and utilize newer equipment and unconventional tech/units. They want some recon done and say hey.. that UAV is unmanned and nobody will bitch if it get's shot. You wouldn't believe how many have been shot down, or how many have crashed in a storm. I think too much weight was put into the Predator, i'm a fan of the Global Hawk and Desert Hawk myself.
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I'll be honest, if i can get several million dollars worth of AI research as my gang mate, i don't care. I'd even let the thing join my corp if it could fit and fly a decent pvp ship. But the learning curve is hard for a person, i doubt a machine could do it without lots of specifics scripted in. But it's fun to speculate if it would be a highsec griefer, lowsec pirate, carebear, 0.0 nano-nut, or sit in an asteroid belt and mine all day?
Thanks a lot, checking it out now.
Very true, i've run into this ceiling many times.
The best solution i've come up with is keep the units as simple as possible. In many cases a FeedForward net with 4inputs, 8 neurons in a hidden layer, and 3 outputs scales pretty well and behaves like an intelligent insect. This was good for builders and other economy based units but seriously lacking for combat units. If the nets are simple enough you can even build hash tables for input & output and skip the all the computation completely for known values.
I really appreciate the suggestion. I'm having a hard time figuring out how to keep the player busy since most of the busy work is out of their hands. I'm going with an idea for a commander unit that you directly control (and gives bonuses) so you feel more involved in the battles & exploration. There is still something missing though : /
I've been in love with NeuralNets since first sight. After a few projects i really wanted to try my hand at a game. I came up with an idea for an RTS that was something like this: The majority of your units were ai, FF nets that evolved genetically. So you don't have to micro manage your economy or patrols or anything. You say, i want a factory here and your builders will find the resources needed and build that factory. They will have to learn the optimal way of doing this. The most successful individuals are the blueprints for the next generation. If that building is destroyed your command still stands, you want a freaking factory in that spot.. so they will toil away and continue building it. The battle side was supposed to be similar but i haven't gotten around to it. But the idea is an RTS that frees you up from the micro & details and let's you focus on the strategy aspect. A side effect is your units become unique over time, so even though your untis may be very successful on one map, a different type of terrain really makes life difficult for them for a few generations.
Right now they learn how to gather materials and move it to construction sites. Actually a lot of fun to watch. But it is still a long long way from anything resembling a game.
Back on topic though. An AI that adapts to it's opponent's weaknesses is well within reach of any game developer. The tough part with genetic and nnet AI is lack of control. You can't easily script a sequence and you can't guarentee what the user/customer will experience. I have had degree's of success over "difficulty" by restricting how many ticks of "thought" a net gets per second. But even then, the net will eventually adapt to this slow thinking.
I usually push over 7gigs upsteam each day and download about the same. The cable connection can do more, but i shape it to something reasonable. That's roughly 200gb a month for what i consider normal use. Most of it is legit, i seed fansubs, ebooks, isos, and some of the band is offsite backup for my projects. I consider all this bandwidth essential for actively participating in the internet today.
I couldn't imagine what a fresh steam install would do to a subscriber with a 20gb cap. Let alone a full WoW or Warhammer install or something else obscenely large. Bandwidth caps are fine in my book, but they need to be something reasonable. We can't have today's content ecosystem on 20gb caps.
Before broadband I had a 2nd phone line and a RH box with an external 28.8 modem connected 24/7. Downloading all the RPMs/tarballs for Enlightenment took a freaking week. But i shared them with all my buds locally. Later in life I had a friend at my ISP, we would lanparty at 2am (yay for nightshift) and literally crush the town's pipe.
Heck, Windows Cloud will demand constant web access to even function. mmm, damn.. i got way way offtrack : / Anyways, i consider bandwidth essential for actively participating in the net. The more band, the more involved you can become.
I truely enjoyed Enterprise. A storyline that actually progressed from episode to episode *gasp*
DS9 developed a good storyline, but wow it took a few seasons. Voyager felt like a continuous story because at the end of the episode Janeway would say, "Tom, set a course for home." But rarely did a plot stretch more than a few episodes. But seriously, DS9's dominion war and Voyager's whole borg thing saved those shows.
I agree with your comment but i'd like to add that sometimes zero day stuff just sucks balls and there isn't much you can do. Sometimes it isn't the OS's fault either, but the software on top. This is where a real sysadmin shines.. he can isolate the problem and hack up a solution within minutes and apply it without regard for testing.
mmm, not being trying to be nit-picky but without the motion sensing you only have like.. 4 buttons? Pretty sure every game uses motion sensing.
It's kind of a joke that privates come with a sleep button installed on their ass. It's a common thing for new soldiers to develop. Some even learn to sleep with eyes cracked a bit.. looks like they are still awake.
The point i was trying to make is that anyone else can come and see it as well. If there is one and only one video feed of the event we end up in the same place as before, all our trust in one group of people.
Third party verification is essential in almost everything. You need a witness to get married, we need "co-signers" for ssl to work..
But like you said, we need someone there we trust. There can be trust in many opposing groups showing the same infomation. My opinion of course : /
or it could be about no oversight of the gambling sites. No guarantee you will actually get paid if you win. People complain about black-box voting machines but somehow black-box gambling machines are acceptable?
I think the key difference is one event physically happens that anyone can watch to verify and the other is digital and has to be taken on blind trust.
But i agree, it is discriminatory. They should have allowed some sort of 3rd party overwatch & tax to authorize specific online gambling sites.
I really enjoyed Perplex City, one of the most fun puzzle games ever made. The game is effectively over pending Season 2. But you can still find some season 1 cards in original foil packs sometimes. Still fun to play, even without the $200,000 prize.
S3 is from the age of 3dfx cards and pre Nvidia Geforce cards. I don't remember any of their cards being very successful? Other than some late Savage cards, but even then, not equal to 3dfx, ATI, or Nvidia offerings.
I still have stuff with 3dfx logos.. i miss them :(
why yes, redmond Themes and Skins are very easy to use in Gnome and KDE, oh wait.. i didn't read your comment correctly : /
To my knowlege, most Muslims cannot read the Koran. They might read translations or interpretations, but certainly not the true Koran itself. This is one of the key functions of the religious leader (Shiek) in an islamic tribal society, to read and translate the Koran.
mmm, i wasn't trying to shoot your comment down. I just wanted to show that very few Muslims can memorize the Koran because so much of the written language itself is subject to interpretation. Most muslims will argue that the Koran itself cannot be translated to another language at all.
It's not devolving, there's no such thing. People will evolve to best adapt to the environment over a long period of time. If the best way to survive is have the "talking shit and lying out your ass" trait then you'll start to see it more. If rich & smart people aren't reproducing as much then apparently there is a level of stupidity and poverty required for reproduction. Though that is not necessarily a bad thing. Nature doesn't give a fuck about money or intellect, only the ability to survive the longest and create the largest amount of progeny.
Then limit your lawbreaking to only cloudy days.
For years now i've been using a $4 cassette tape adapter to plug the Ipod into my Jeep. And yes, that means i have an ancient Ipod the size of a brick with a screen in various shades of gray :(
Pilots are fairly invulnerable since they have clones (make sure it's up to date!). But ships.. that's a whole different story. If your ship pops in battle.. it's gone. Forever. Period. Some modules are gone with it and unrecoverable. A portion of your loot remains with your wreck for anyone to take. Ship losses don't affect you much at first, but at you progress to more high-tech or bigger ships, it can take weeks to replace a loss.
Friendly tip: Don't take it into battle if you can't afford a replacement!
You can only fly one ship at a time, mate :)
You are completely hung up on the skill and equipment thing. Grab a Rifter with all tech 1 rat loot garbage and fleet up with your corp. I promise you'll have a shit tonne of fun and score some kills. Who needs shields and armor?! Just a few guns and a warp scramble man!
well... it's almost like saying "I decided to watch the Ironman movie and just skipped over the action scenes and plot development".
That being said, i did love his review.. especially the skill training part, haha.
One of my Favorite episodes from all the Star Treks. Best part was that the time bubble around the planet prevented the inhabitants from communicating or interacting with the galaxy, their SETI program was ultimately a failure and they didn't understand why.
Couple of things.. the US Military is insane about mental health. Any vet literally gets a lifetime "come in for free" card. Not only that, but they call and mail you shit all the time about it. Your comment about injured soldiers losing pay and not being taken care of is mis-directed. That particular problem is for National Guard and Reserve and is the responsibility of the state government once released from national duty. It is a failure of the State's gov and State's reserve components. But to be fair, States never had to deal with this type of thing in the recent past.
The only other thing i'd like to comment about is that poor UAV. Commanders have always had this failure to understand and utilize newer equipment and unconventional tech/units. They want some recon done and say hey.. that UAV is unmanned and nobody will bitch if it get's shot. You wouldn't believe how many have been shot down, or how many have crashed in a storm. I think too much weight was put into the Predator, i'm a fan of the Global Hawk and Desert Hawk myself.