It would be interesting to see if this will in fact hold true; if we'll see other Licences in the BSD thread become more and more prevalent. I doubt it (mostly because most people are licence naive), but still. Too bad we can't really graph it.
The mention that Universities and corporations are starting to work more together jives perfectly with what my supervisor has said: A lot of work in his field has been done that perhaps is a little 'too' blue sky. By working with a corporation (one of the article mentioned infact), he gets a perfect insight into what is a real problem in the real work, and what is a problem only the researchers care about.
I managed to catch a lecture from the CPRG who are building Polaris 2. While I'm not an AI guy, the gist I got was that there are something like 10^30 states in poker (too many). so what's done here is that there's an abstraction to a simpler game, which is solved, then mapped back to poker.
As well there was a training stage using something called Counterfactual regret... again, Not an AI guy.
All in all, I think the real challenge of computer poker is the incomplete information.
Because as they've said at their page poker has a lot more applications to the real world later. this is all about making intelligent decisions with imperfect information. Chess can simply be brute forced eventually, just like checkers was.
The FQA. One of my favourite extended rants. I cant speak as to how accurate it is (never really have done much in C++), but there are many eye openers in there. (C++ grammar is undecideable-what?)
The government said a second reading of the legislation wouldn't occur until the next sitting of the house. With the government breaking soon for the summer, such a reading would not occur until the fall. This gives three months to rally against it. Though, Micheal Geist looks at it slightly differently:
The government plans for second reading at the next sitting of the house, effectively removing the ability to send it to committee after first reading (and therefore be more open to change).
Remarkably inefficient; Now that's something that should be said again and again, and four times more if you're on a Mac. I cannot fathom why it takes one full 1.83Ghz core to decode FLV video in flash, when I can do 720p with less CPU usage when it's h264 in QT.
I think the charges are wrong, but I also think that charges are necessary in a case like this, for exactly the reason you stated: "What 13 year old doesn't have emotional issues".
Hahaha. Ironically, I took all the BC studies, just not the exam. My teacher was great. I just didn't find the AP material adequately prepared for university level calculus.
But it didn't even cover my first semester course, not in the level expected by my university. I had the option to skip directly to the second semester course given my grade.... and I can guarantee, I would've been slaughtered.
Woah...... +1 to your GPA for getting a 5 in AP CS? That's bull. I didn't write AP CS but I wrote Math AB (and got a 5).... what a joke. It was no where near equivalent to a first year calculus course. No where near.
is that outside of the US it's next to impossible to find an AP CS class. So, while interest may be there, it may not be there inside the US and so the College Board runs into a catch-22.
I'd love to see the per year increase-decrease stats across all the AP subjects. It would be interesting to see if it correlates to the apparent decline in the sciences across the US.
Intel Mac: Watching a youtube video takes 50% CPU... on BOTH cores. Ridiculous. Watching 320x240 blocky video being that bad. You can blame.flv, but a flash ad on slashdot has been known to take more CPU.
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And an app designed to help: http://silverbackapp.com/
Odd my macbook trackpad was originally slightly textured, and now is very smooth...
Insufficient "Funny" moderation. Damn, I wish you weren't already at five.
It would be interesting to see if this will in fact hold true; if we'll see other Licences in the BSD thread become more and more prevalent. I doubt it (mostly because most people are licence naive), but still. Too bad we can't really graph it.
At least, not in the markets where linux is competing against it. It's ease of use, and the "it-just-works" factor.
It does (helpfully) give you the option of downloading it for $1.99.>
Which fails with an availability error.
IP address discrimination. Irksome. Yes, I know, licensing, yada yada yada....
All these problems would go away if the internet was declared its own country.
The mention that Universities and corporations are starting to work more together jives perfectly with what my supervisor has said: A lot of work in his field has been done that perhaps is a little 'too' blue sky. By working with a corporation (one of the article mentioned infact), he gets a perfect insight into what is a real problem in the real work, and what is a problem only the researchers care about.
I managed to catch a lecture from the CPRG who are building Polaris 2. While I'm not an AI guy, the gist I got was that there are something like 10^30 states in poker (too many). so what's done here is that there's an abstraction to a simpler game, which is solved, then mapped back to poker.
As well there was a training stage using something called Counterfactual regret... again, Not an AI guy.
All in all, I think the real challenge of computer poker is the incomplete information.
Because as they've said at their page poker has a lot more applications to the real world later. this is all about making intelligent decisions with imperfect information. Chess can simply be brute forced eventually, just like checkers was.
I was about to mention that it seems rather well maintained; And Yosefk seems pretty amenable to changes, or at least defending his points.
The FQA. One of my favourite extended rants. I cant speak as to how accurate it is (never really have done much in C++), but there are many eye openers in there. (C++ grammar is undecideable-what?)
silverlight: On the mac, it's almost as crashy: http://inessential.com/?comments=1&postid=3491
Remarkably inefficient; Now that's something that should be said again and again, and four times more if you're on a Mac. I cannot fathom why it takes one full 1.83Ghz core to decode FLV video in flash, when I can do 720p with less CPU usage when it's h264 in QT.
I want to see a wishlist too; There's games I'd love to buy if I had the funds. If I had a wishlist, i'd probably buy more games.
I think I'm in agreement; I do rather wish the combat had a little less mouse driven; Especialy on a track pad.
I think the charges are wrong, but I also think that charges are necessary in a case like this, for exactly the reason you stated: "What 13 year old doesn't have emotional issues".
Whatever happened with Patrick's illness?
The really skinny one? I actually enjoy it...
Hahaha. Ironically, I took all the BC studies, just not the exam. My teacher was great. I just didn't find the AP material adequately prepared for university level calculus.
But it didn't even cover my first semester course, not in the level expected by my university. I had the option to skip directly to the second semester course given my grade.... and I can guarantee, I would've been slaughtered.
Woah...... +1 to your GPA for getting a 5 in AP CS? That's bull. I didn't write AP CS but I wrote Math AB (and got a 5).... what a joke. It was no where near equivalent to a first year calculus course. No where near.
is that outside of the US it's next to impossible to find an AP CS class. So, while interest may be there, it may not be there inside the US and so the College Board runs into a catch-22.
I'd love to see the per year increase-decrease stats across all the AP subjects. It would be interesting to see if it correlates to the apparent decline in the sciences across the US.
Intel Mac: Watching a youtube video takes 50% CPU... on BOTH cores. Ridiculous. Watching 320x240 blocky video being that bad. You can blame .flv, but a flash ad on slashdot has been known to take more CPU.