Making AI Practical and Practicable
Jordan completed her PhD in Artificial Intelligence at the University of New Hampshire in 2012. Since then, she's used AI to solve problems in many domains including security, medicine, & logistics.
Last time I said I wanted to accomplish the following for the next piece of work on the battler: Do for Skills / Spells what I’ve done for attack Enable the “Defend” action Handle the win / loss transitions In addition, I implemented a rudimentary party inventory system and got…
The Goal Someone recently told me in passing that they wished they had a machine learning sandbox. I didn’t know what that was exactly, but I had a few ideas about what it might be. I wrote down some notes about what I thought a machine learning sandbox might do…
Introduction Anyone who has owned a vehicle recognizes the following simple truth: every part of any vehicle deteriorates with use. That includes the engine. Most of the vehicle owning population knows this second thing: it’s cheaper to maintain an engine than it is to fix a busted engine. That’s why…
Last week, I had started to work on the battle system for my RPG. I laid out a laundry list of work that still needed to be done to get to where I wanted to be. This week, I’ve been able to tackle: Port over the turn taking logic Port…
You might recall from my last post that I said I’d be working on an RPG combat system during the month of June. I found that time boxing my personal projects seemed to be a good way for me to get work done, but I was eager to go back…
What Worked Time bounding the whole project Roughing out one chunk of game play at a time, stitching roughed segments together, and only doing polish at the end Pushing input capture into a single object and reading its state Tiny amount of issue tracking (via trello) for a tiny project…
A couple of years ago, I got really interested in randomizers, like the Link to the Past Randomizer or Final Fantasy IV: Free Enterprise. These games are romhacks that take the content of classic games and mix them all up so that you play them in a different order. Gating…
Drunk Tank is a small game I put together during the month of May.
I started to take my work on side projects pretty seriously recently. I was frustrated with how little I’d accomplished in a six month period. I was looking for something that would help me be more effective with my effort and let me get through more projects. My thought was…
I’m Jordan Thayer. Here’s a brief summary of who I am, how I got here, and what I’m here to do.
