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Empire was an awesome game! I spent hours and hours on Empire ... until Civilization came out unfortunately. Thank you so much Mr Bright! You deserve much lo
by thewileyone 6y ago
Empire was an awesome game! I spent hours and hours on Empire ... until Civilization came out unfortunately.
Thank you so much Mr Bright! You deserve much love!
- WalterBright 6y agoLove won't pay my bills, I want money! Just give me money! -- apologies to the Flying Lizards
- coolgeek 6y agoA+ obscure music reference!
- WalterBright 6y agoIt's my theme song!
- WalterBright 6y agoThanks for the kind words! I spent enormous amounts of time tweaking the computer's strategy so it would play a reasonably competent game. Curiously, each decision looks like a sequence of input values with a coefficient. What does that look like? You guessed it, a neural network! I obviously had no idea what I was doing. I never hit on the notion of generalizing it, and then doing training to find the best coefficients and the inputs that mattered. (Of course, I didn't have the computer power to run 10,000 game iterations, either, when it'd take an hour to run one game.) I bet now one could use neural networks to turn the computer strategy into a formidable opponent.