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[overseer05-15]

European Hematology Association? That sounds pretty cool man! Congratulations!

Indeed. My congratulations... but I now suspect you to be a vampire.

[Sergarr]

Just got reminded by some events that there was a Mario AI (WARNING: shitty music, hit that mute button) that was based around path searching with a very simple "go right" heuristic to guide its way forward. And it was pretty good, too. Potentially, with more complex experience-derived heuristics, it could beat the whole game!

[Rolan7]

Thanks for the reminder about that!  It's cool to see it with the planning lines, I hadn't seen that before.

The original video (or someone with a similar project who wrote a paper) is here:  https://youtu.be/xOCurBYI_gY
The whole thing is pretty good if you've got some time to hear about game theory.  I like how he showcases the failures as well as the unexpected successes.  The last two minutes are particularly good about that:  https://youtu.be/xOCurBYI_gY?t=851
Particularly the very end, Tetris, hehe.

Or just to jump to Mario, including early failures:  https://youtu.be/xOCurBYI_gY?t=460

[Sergarr]

Thanks for the reminder about that!  It's cool to see it with the planning lines, I hadn't seen that before.

The original video (or someone with a similar project who wrote a paper) is here:  https://youtu.be/xOCurBYI_gY
The whole thing is pretty good if you've got some time to hear about game theory.  I like how he showcases the failures as well as the unexpected successes.  The last two minutes are particularly good about that:  https://youtu.be/xOCurBYI_gY?t=851
Particularly the very end, Tetris, hehe.

Or just to jump to Mario, including early failures:  https://youtu.be/xOCurBYI_gY?t=460

Ey, that's interesting. But they're quite different - the video you've linked has a very unique approach that I haven't seen anywhere before, and which would be unlikely to be used... anywhere else, really, because of its highly questionable core prior assumption of "bigger = better" from which everything else runs off.

The one I linked is just a pretty simple application of bog-standard A* pathfinding algorithm that's been used in every RTS/TBS game ever, and probably a significant number of FPS games, too. It's also quite a bit more efficient at guiding Mario forward.

[Sirus]

I saw Logan last night. Was good.

[Pancakes]

I spilled water into my pc and onto its fan and motherboard, whereupon the fan sped up to mach 5 and the system powered off. After leaving it to dry overnight with a fan blowing on it, all is good!

[hops]

TFW you dry off a fan with a fan.

[Akura]

TFW you dry off a fan with a fan.

The other fans are like "that is some seriously messed up perverse shit right there".

[AzyWng]

TFW you dry off a fan with a fan.

The other fans are like "that is some seriously messed up perverse shit right there".

Relevant comic here

[Rolan7]

He's also done like three comics about being stupid with fans (not to mention people who like his comic, such as with geohashing), this is probably the most appropriate: https://xkcd.com/1119/

[Eric Blank]

I brought home a new puppy

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

[WillowLuman]

Found a thing to do at work while sitting down, so I don't have to expend as much of my break time to recharge my foot stamina

[Flying Dice]

What's worse than stepping on lego?

[Ultimuh]

What's worse than stepping on lego?

Spoiler: Today I Learned (click to show/hide)

Spider-Man's head can kill Shrek.

[Greiger]

What's worse than stepping on lego?

I do not consiter myself a gun person.

But I did spend2 hours last night when I should have been sleeping watching those guys shoot wierd ammo from shotguns.