Re:An example of great game A.I.
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The State of Game AI
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The problem there is that the two factors you mentioned (accuracy and commands-per-minute) are both things that AI can far exceed humans at, especially if you aren't careful to limit it. I think that the real solution is to make a game where learning and adapting is more important than accuracy or speed, but then someone would have to write actual AI.
The same things could have been said about GUIs on computers when they were first introduced. Can you think of anything that you can do with a GUI that you couldn't do with a command line? And yet how many non-nerds do you know who use command lines over GUIs?
Civ didn't teach based on what you did in the actual game. That should be obvious given that we haven't launched anything at Alpha Centauri, and nobody has yet achieved world domination. However, if you read the civilopedia, they do give you a substantial amount of information on what happened in real life. That bit of learning is even more present in Civ IV, where they give short bios of each of the leaders and things like that. All an educational game needs to do to be successful is give you enough information to make you go seek out more on your own.
which, for those too lazy to read the link, lists actuaries, academic work, cryptologists, statisticians, operations research, and enegineering fields as among the top fields for math majors.
You forgot the best part, which is that the scythe glows blue along its edge because it's sharp enough to slice air molecules apart with the pressure that they exert on the blade. If that's not impressively sharp, I'm not sure what is.
Where was this? I went on vacation to London, and the subway system (sorry, tube) there was excellent: trains every few minutes, posted schedules so that you could plan on being on time for the less common trains (like to the airport), and certainly faster than 5 miles in an hour. Oh, and fairly cheap, too (not sure exactly, I had a month all-you-can-ride pass) If the city I live in had the same level of public transport, I would use it much more than my car.
Re:Registering several addresses in the beta?
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You can also ask for more invites (Someone I know asked for and got 100 invites to let everyone in a project that they were working on get an @gmail.com address), so somebody somewhere can grant invites.
You may not spar, but in Aikido you don't have to worry about cheap shots either, and you also learn how to break someone's arm (and wrist, and back, and so on). You also have the advantage of working in an environment where the goal is to help each other learn, rather than to win. But I'm biased, I suppose, because I've taken Aikido.
Yes it is. If you own your frying pan, you are allowed to do whatever you want with it as long as you don't infringe the rights of anyone else. So, by smacking me in the head with your frying pan, you would infringe my rights , which is why it is illegal for you to smack me. You are, however, allowed to smack yourself all you want, because you own the frying.
Well then what if you coated your shells with something designed to do exactly that (generate lots of dust). The artical said that the laser didn't work very well through dust, so what if you had an outer layer designed to put lots of dust (probably from burning the layer off) into the air around the shell and disrupt the laser?
Imagine if this thing had hit a towerblock in London, or an apartment complex in New York, possibly killing or injuring hundreds?
Yes. What if. Meteors have the whole solar system to miss earth in, and if they do actually hit, they have the entire surface of the earth to miss in. Do you know what percentage of the earth's surface is occupied by cities, let alone the percentage of volume in the solar system? The chances of a significant meteor hitting anything like that are vanishingly small, as demonstrated by the fact that we havn't had anything get hit for the past few thousand years. The risk associated with getting hit by a meteor is so small that it's not even worth trying to prevent.
Well, look at the "average" windows install, as given by companies like Dell: Windows, MSoffice (that's another few CDs, since you seem to like counting in CDs), probably some antivirus stuff (another CD), and some driver CDs. I think that the average Windows install is still more than the average linux install, and to include things like OpenOffice in the average linux install and not include MS office in the average windows install is to render the comparison pointless.
WEll, I, Like most/. readers, have no idea what is really happening research-wise with hydrogen fuel cells and stuff, but it seems like water would be the wrong place to get hydrogen from: as you said, it's a very sound molecule, and very hard to split. But water is not the only source of hydrogen. For example, stripping hydrogen off of carbohydrates. Again, I'm not sure how that would work in terms of energy gained vs energy used compared to water, but carbohydrates are (literally) lying around on the ground, and they seem much easier to get hydrogen out of than water.
I agree. I am a student in the PAUSD who happens to run a lot of the computer stuff at one of the high schools. Many times, parents (with what I hope are good intentions) try to give us stuff. Usually, it compleatly fails to work well with what is already in place, although they insist that it is perfect for whatever we want to do with it. What is more, we have so many tech parents that all want to set things up their own way, regardless of what anyone else is doing, because they want to "Help the school" that even the tech people for the school don't know how a lot of our equipment is set up. It has gotten so bad that I know of at least two teachers at my school who have said that nobody gets to do anything to their computers without their permission (fortunatly, they both know what they are doing). There are many times when I wish that all the helpful parents would go away and be helpful to somebody else, instead of giving us their old apple 2s or offering to set up that new campus-wide wireless network that is crucial to their child's learning environment.
Doesn't look like there's any penalty for just being wrong.
That's the point of those lines: you aren't supposed to send out harassment letters unless you are sure that you are right, to prevent things like this.
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The problem there is that the two factors you mentioned (accuracy and commands-per-minute) are both things that AI can far exceed humans at, especially if you aren't careful to limit it. I think that the real solution is to make a game where learning and adapting is more important than accuracy or speed, but then someone would have to write actual AI.
The same things could have been said about GUIs on computers when they were first introduced. Can you think of anything that you can do with a GUI that you couldn't do with a command line? And yet how many non-nerds do you know who use command lines over GUIs?
Civ didn't teach based on what you did in the actual game. That should be obvious given that we haven't launched anything at Alpha Centauri, and nobody has yet achieved world domination. However, if you read the civilopedia, they do give you a substantial amount of information on what happened in real life. That bit of learning is even more present in Civ IV, where they give short bios of each of the leaders and things like that. All an educational game needs to do to be successful is give you enough information to make you go seek out more on your own.
Some quick googleing turned up this:
http://www.sbuniv.edu/~khopkins/mathdo.html
which, for those too lazy to read the link, lists actuaries, academic work, cryptologists, statisticians, operations research, and enegineering fields as among the top fields for math majors.
You forgot the best part, which is that the scythe glows blue along its edge because it's sharp enough to slice air molecules apart with the pressure that they exert on the blade. If that's not impressively sharp, I'm not sure what is.
Where was this? I went on vacation to London, and the subway system (sorry, tube) there was excellent: trains every few minutes, posted schedules so that you could plan on being on time for the less common trains (like to the airport), and certainly faster than 5 miles in an hour. Oh, and fairly cheap, too (not sure exactly, I had a month all-you-can-ride pass) If the city I live in had the same level of public transport, I would use it much more than my car.
You can also ask for more invites (Someone I know asked for and got 100 invites to let everyone in a project that they were working on get an @gmail.com address), so somebody somewhere can grant invites.
I remember an introduction to a Tom Lehrer song where he was talking about someone who spelled their name Hen3ry, with the 3 silent as well.
You may not spar, but in Aikido you don't have to worry about cheap shots either, and you also learn how to break someone's arm (and wrist, and back, and so on). You also have the advantage of working in an environment where the goal is to help each other learn, rather than to win. But I'm biased, I suppose, because I've taken Aikido.
Yes it is. If you own your frying pan, you are allowed to do whatever you want with it as long as you don't infringe the rights of anyone else. So, by smacking me in the head with your frying pan, you would infringe my rights , which is why it is illegal for you to smack me. You are, however, allowed to smack yourself all you want, because you own the frying.
Well then what if you coated your shells with something designed to do exactly that (generate lots of dust). The artical said that the laser didn't work very well through dust, so what if you had an outer layer designed to put lots of dust (probably from burning the layer off) into the air around the shell and disrupt the laser?
Imagine if this thing had hit a towerblock in London, or an apartment complex in New York, possibly killing or injuring hundreds?
Yes. What if. Meteors have the whole solar system to miss earth in, and if they do actually hit, they have the entire surface of the earth to miss in. Do you know what percentage of the earth's surface is occupied by cities, let alone the percentage of volume in the solar system? The chances of a significant meteor hitting anything like that are vanishingly small, as demonstrated by the fact that we havn't had anything get hit for the past few thousand years. The risk associated with getting hit by a meteor is so small that it's not even worth trying to prevent.
Well, look at the "average" windows install, as given by companies like Dell: Windows, MSoffice (that's another few CDs, since you seem to like counting in CDs), probably some antivirus stuff (another CD), and some driver CDs. I think that the average Windows install is still more than the average linux install, and to include things like OpenOffice in the average linux install and not include MS office in the average windows install is to render the comparison pointless.
WEll, I, Like most /. readers, have no idea what is really happening research-wise with hydrogen fuel cells and stuff, but it seems like water would be the wrong place to get hydrogen from: as you said, it's a very sound molecule, and very hard to split. But water is not the only source of hydrogen. For example, stripping hydrogen off of carbohydrates. Again, I'm not sure how that would work in terms of energy gained vs energy used compared to water, but carbohydrates are (literally) lying around on the ground, and they seem much easier to get hydrogen out of than water.
I agree. I am a student in the PAUSD who happens to run a lot of the computer stuff at one of the high schools. Many times, parents (with what I hope are good intentions) try to give us stuff. Usually, it compleatly fails to work well with what is already in place, although they insist that it is perfect for whatever we want to do with it. What is more, we have so many tech parents that all want to set things up their own way, regardless of what anyone else is doing, because they want to "Help the school" that even the tech people for the school don't know how a lot of our equipment is set up. It has gotten so bad that I know of at least two teachers at my school who have said that nobody gets to do anything to their computers without their permission (fortunatly, they both know what they are doing). There are many times when I wish that all the helpful parents would go away and be helpful to somebody else, instead of giving us their old apple 2s or offering to set up that new campus-wide wireless network that is crucial to their child's learning environment.
Sigh. My rant is over now.
That's the point of those lines: you aren't supposed to send out harassment letters unless you are sure that you are right, to prevent things like this.
or maybe: No! Another Slashdotting! Aargh!
I have a Pentium 1/133Mhz on a necklace, and I have had girls come over and ask to see/hold/look at it more than once. Maybe a methond worth trying?