Tell me about it. We never have enough medics and scouts either.
Not a terribly complex game, surprisingly
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AI Takes On Pac-Man
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Assuming they're pitting their Pac-Man bots against the logic of the original arcade game, there isn't a whole lot of complexity to deal with. All four of the ghosts behave in different, but very predictable fashion. In a nutshell, every ghost chooses its target space on the board differently, but they all close in on their respective target space in exactly the same manner. Knowing how these target spaces are chosen, one could probably write a reasonably effective AI player only needing to "think" a few hundred frames in advance. This is difficult for a human player to do in real time, of course
There are a couple of interesting articles about how the game works. If you've played the game and know how unpredictable the ghosts can seem at times, it's remarkable to find out that the algorithms behind their behavior are so incredibly simple. I used to wonder if the game employed some kind of sophisticated path-finding algorithm like A*, but it's actually nowhere near that level of complexity.
In fairness, they never claimed to be php/SQL masters. They're probably referring to being masters at trying to sell you cheat codes to games they make.
Have you ever seen a dude high on on some drug fighting? NO! they're all like peace bro! I think drugs might be a social service!:P but seriously drugs don't kill people, people kill people!
Do a Google search for "daddy ate my eyes". Go on.
Rural build-out is so screwy. I live less than 10 miles from a major international airport, and in a pretty large school district, and the only option for wired internet service is dial-up. And no cable television either (not that I particularly want that, though).
I go to the local movie theater maybe once or twice a year, and every time I go I'm reminded why the trips are so infrequent. The 20-30 minutes of advertisements and garbage before the show are bad enough, but as far as I'm concerned, digital cinema looks like crap. It's a jagged, aliased mess that's nowhere near the clarity of good film, there's enough ghosting to be a distraction, and I swear I've seen what looks like compression artifacting in fast action scenes that are heavy on red/blue. And now you have these dumb brightness issues. I can get lousy picture quality in the comfort of my own home for much less than the cost of a movie ticket. Plus I can hit the pause button to get up and pee.
I don't know, grade school biology/physiology classes maybe? I wasn't writing multi-user n-tier applications in the 9th grade, either, but I was certainly dabbling in CS.
I can understand his concern, but really, the university level should not be your first exposure to your area of study. And if you can't cut the mustard in a particular discipline, would you rather find out during the first semester, or after pissing away several years, and all the tuition and other expenses along with them? So, my opinion is that hitting the ground running - or at least at a brisk jog - is definitely the proper approach for a university level science/math discipline.
(GVSU alumnus myself. They had a pretty solid CS program when I was there a few years back.)
I'd like to see a DBA, or anybody in IT for that matter, run Chrome OS nearly exclusively. That would be torture.
And I don't have to spend any undue amounts of time "managing" my computer. Maybe a new software package here and there, an occasional security update, driver update, etc. It's less effort than the real work I do, that's for sure.
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It's an entirely different kind of flying, altogether.
Tell me about it. We never have enough medics and scouts either.
Assuming they're pitting their Pac-Man bots against the logic of the original arcade game, there isn't a whole lot of complexity to deal with. All four of the ghosts behave in different, but very predictable fashion. In a nutshell, every ghost chooses its target space on the board differently, but they all close in on their respective target space in exactly the same manner. Knowing how these target spaces are chosen, one could probably write a reasonably effective AI player only needing to "think" a few hundred frames in advance. This is difficult for a human player to do in real time, of course
There are a couple of interesting articles about how the game works. If you've played the game and know how unpredictable the ghosts can seem at times, it's remarkable to find out that the algorithms behind their behavior are so incredibly simple. I used to wonder if the game employed some kind of sophisticated path-finding algorithm like A*, but it's actually nowhere near that level of complexity.
Anyway, this seems like it would make a cool undergrad project for an AI class.
In fairness, they never claimed to be php/SQL masters. They're probably referring to being masters at trying to sell you cheat codes to games they make.
Learning how to bludgeon the idiot you inherited the rotted code base from is a perfectly viable skill.
That should read "Proceedings of the National Academy of Scientists Who Are Assholes".
Reminds me of one of the opening scenes from Ghostbusters. "The effect? I'll tell you what the effect is: it's pissing me off!"
Do a Google search for "daddy ate my eyes". Go on.
They've overlooked that he starred in Mad About You and Beverly Hills Cop, in particular.
I'm not complaining about Doom, I'm complaining about horrendous JavaScript bloat. I love the game, and still play it now and then.
I mean, it's a cool accomplishment in terms of implementation and all, but...
Ughhhhhhhhhh.
Personally, I would have performed that test quite a bit beforehand.
If only there were some way to reference a page on the internet in a canonical, consistent fashion. A uniform locator for a resource, if you will.
Rural build-out is so screwy. I live less than 10 miles from a major international airport, and in a pretty large school district, and the only option for wired internet service is dial-up. And no cable television either (not that I particularly want that, though).
It's time to delay release and chew bubble gum.
And I'm all out of delays.
Well, they've only just recently begun breeding horses that poop fiber optic cable. The price will come down soon enough.
I go to the local movie theater maybe once or twice a year, and every time I go I'm reminded why the trips are so infrequent. The 20-30 minutes of advertisements and garbage before the show are bad enough, but as far as I'm concerned, digital cinema looks like crap. It's a jagged, aliased mess that's nowhere near the clarity of good film, there's enough ghosting to be a distraction, and I swear I've seen what looks like compression artifacting in fast action scenes that are heavy on red/blue. And now you have these dumb brightness issues. I can get lousy picture quality in the comfort of my own home for much less than the cost of a movie ticket. Plus I can hit the pause button to get up and pee.
I don't know, grade school biology/physiology classes maybe? I wasn't writing multi-user n-tier applications in the 9th grade, either, but I was certainly dabbling in CS.
I can understand his concern, but really, the university level should not be your first exposure to your area of study. And if you can't cut the mustard in a particular discipline, would you rather find out during the first semester, or after pissing away several years, and all the tuition and other expenses along with them? So, my opinion is that hitting the ground running - or at least at a brisk jog - is definitely the proper approach for a university level science/math discipline.
(GVSU alumnus myself. They had a pretty solid CS program when I was there a few years back.)
"...you talk like a fag, and your shit's all retarded!"
I install more software updates on my iPhone than on my workstation. It's hardly a chore.
I'd like to see a DBA, or anybody in IT for that matter, run Chrome OS nearly exclusively. That would be torture.
And I don't have to spend any undue amounts of time "managing" my computer. Maybe a new software package here and there, an occasional security update, driver update, etc. It's less effort than the real work I do, that's for sure.
It's just too bad that Microsoft raped Windows Mobile.
Oh, then that's a relief. Nobody's ever used Javascript as an attack vector.
Well it sounds like they just need an HP-200LX then, since it comes with Lotus 123 release 2.4 built right in.