Research can be speculative or applied. Artificial Intelligence research is often both, trying to solve real-world problems while at the same time testing theories about how the human brain works. A branch of the AI research crowd are interested in games both as a testbed for theoretical work and as a market for applied AI. [...]
Wednesday, August 25, 2010
People like cleaning up. Well, not always literally, and not quite everyone. But, for whatever reason, there seems to be something that’s intrinsically enjoyable about reducing entropy. I enjoy actual, real-life cleaning up once I get into the swing of things, and then I can’t stop until it’s “done”. But getting motivated enough to start [...]
Wednesday, August 18, 2010
I’ve been lurking on a thread over at the Pigmi Discussion List that’s been debating the pros and cons of Game Classification, in the wake of the news (reported on Kotaku) that the Australian Government is working to close a loophole that allows unclassified games and applications to be downloaded and used on mobile devices. [...]
Another historic article, from the 1990′s. Of course, these days you’d just look it up in Wikepedia, but that didn’t start until 2001. Introduction My fascination with Solresol began when I recently watched “Close Encounters of the Third Kind”. My PhD research is focused on Language Processing, and I found the concept of a musical [...]
HERE BE SPOILERS I loved Inception, and I’m convinced that, unlike many movies that leave questions unanswered, there exists a single correct explanation of what happened (I reckon Nolan does know the answer, and will have placed enough evidence throughout the movie to allow others to find it). Here’s my theory. I plan to re-watch [...]
Another one from the vaults. I wrote this in the late 1990′s: A society consists of equal numbers of males and females. Each female knows all the males and vice versa. Each female has a priority list of the males she would like to marry, and vice versa. The task is to marry them all [...]
Thursday, October 29, 2009
Does it seem to you that people reach a point in their lives where they just stop learning new stuff? We recently had a baby boy, and I tell friends of my parents that he was “just over three kilos” at birth, only to be met with blank stares. Seriously. The hospital is complicit in [...]
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Here’s a book chapter that I wrote in 2000 and that wasn’t published until late 2008. Enjoy! Probably best to read in full-screen, or click through to Issuu and download the PDF.