Making AI Practical and Practicable
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Death Stranding was a surreal experience for several reasons. First, the game has a weird story line that’s a little hard to follow at times; exactly what you’d expect from the game’s director Hideo Kojima. Secondly, I’m still not used to seeing recognizable famous people in games. Facial capture isn’t…
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…
I love conferences. I love getting up and presenting. I love the chance to catch up with friends from different companies and different states. I love the opportunity to see new perspectives and learn new ideas. What I love most of all is how kind and respectful people are at…
Introduction This post originally appeared on SEP’s Blog People often ask questions like "What is AI?", or "Is AI worth of the hype?". Both questions are non-trivial to answer, but let’s start with the first one: "What is AI?". This is a perennial favorite at academic conferences on AI for…
Just a brief note that I’ll be speaking at Indy FP next week, at 6 pm on Tuesday, January 21st. I’ll be giving a presentation on using F# to implement heuristic search algorithms and domains. The source code used in the talk is available here. And the landing page that…
I recently took a look at how we can prove a given instance of a randomizer romhack can be won using propositional logic. It’s posted over on the company’s blog, so make sure to take a look at it over there. It’s kind of part of the same thread as…
The theme of the July project work was “Retail, Resize, Refactor”. As some of you may be aware, the first week of July contains a large holiday. Our family also dovetailed it with a birthday celebration for our daughter. As such, there was precious little time for work on BassRPG,…
During June I (fairly successfully I think) got the battle system for my RPG up and running. While I do not have all of the enemies in the game, I have all of the ‘hard bits’ around the battle system finished. Put another way, I’m not so worried that I…
June is over, or will be shortly. It’s time to look back on the months project. At the outset, let me say I’m pretty happy with the outcome. You may recall, but let me remind you, that , “In June, I plan on running through a whole feature for the…
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…
