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Month: April 2024

Solo TTRPG Philosophy 201

ChatGPT describes the solo ttrpg thusly: In a typical tabletop RPG, a group of players collaborates with a game master to create and navigate a story within a fictional world, making decisions and interacting with the narrative. Solo tabletop RPGs adapt this concept for individual play. The player takes on…

Record Deduplication

I have a relative that frequently has medical problems. This despite the fact that he’s a healthy young man. His problem is that he has too many names. He’s James-Robert, but depending on whom you ask, you’ll hear him called: He has five names at least, and that’s before considering…

How Visualizations Lead To Advances in Artificial Intelligence

Heuristic search is a subfield of artificial intelligence.  It is the study of algorithms meant for general problem solving. The problems solved with heuristic search come from a variety of domains, including: These varried domains have two things in common.  First, the difficulty of solving these problems grows far faster…