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by dgant 7y ago
The Brood War AI development community is very welcoming and supportive. You can see bots in action at https://twitch.tv/sscait Most discussion happen on Discord at https://discord.gg/QU457H
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by dgant 8y ago
The main discussion forum is Discord: https://discord.gg/HpnNmsG Announcements are usually on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/bwapi Another popular StarCraft-related blog is: http:/&#x2
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by dgant 8y ago
NFL rules require that an NFL team have a majority owner (with Green Bay grandfathered as an exception). It will likely have to be sold.
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by dgant 8y ago
It's telling that the risk premium is 20%.
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by dgant 8y ago
What's a good source for keeping up with the industry?
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by dgant 8y ago
There's a substantial community around Hearthstone AI: https://hearthsim.info/
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by dgant 8y ago
Humans are all susceptible to the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halo_effect -- it predates civilization.
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by dgant 8y ago
Enjoyed the article. But I'm a bit confused by the Venn diagram; neither StarCraft nor DOTA are deterministic or fully observable. And they are discrete only at such extreme resolutions that they may as well be continuous.
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by dgant 8y ago
StarCraft is a strategy game but it's also an action sport. The "how" of micro actions is largely the sport itself, both from a decision-making and execution standpoint. Imagine a footballer having a "kick goal" or
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by dgant 8y ago
There are a few ways to run Brood War headlessly. And if not headlessly, sped up as fast as your CPU can process frames (and Brood War is very fast -- it ran on Pentium 90s!). TorchCraft is compatible with any Brood War client that supports
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by dgant 9y ago
That's not an investment. There is no value being generated and nothing is growing. It's speculation.
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by dgant 9y ago
Brood War competitions have been going on for seven years, with individual bots getting years of development. If beating professionals was easy it'd have been done by now. It turns out that being really good at narrow micromanagement s
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by dgant 9y ago
https://www.facebook.com/groups/bwapi
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by dgant 9y ago
Sure. I had a winning record vs. Iron in the tournament. Both are very strong but within grasp. The hard part is that any success is a bit fleeting; both have very capable and driven authors who will shore up weaknesses very quickly!
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by dgant 9y ago
The best AIs right now would beat above average folks from the public. But as you start approaching anyone who resembles a professional, bots rapidly turn into practice dummies. The biggest problems I'm personally facing at the moment
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by dgant 9y ago
Hi! Author of PurpleWave here. A bit late to the party but happy to answer questions.
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by dgant 9y ago
Hi Strilanc. Author of PurpleWave here. That particular scene at the sunken colonies was equally frustrating to watch. I fixed the most likely cause of that behavior shortly after the tournament deadline. But for sure, you're correct.
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Why StarCraft AI?(dangant.com)
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by dgant 9y ago
How to efficiently achieve build goals is itself a mostly solved problem. See BOSS by Dave Churchill. The catch is that "can I build this without dying in the process" is an almost completely unsolved problem. Even "can my op
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by dgant 9y ago
This was a big cause of the death of CampusNetwork, which in 2004-5 was a credible competitor to Facebook. Because it encouraged for campus-wide conversation -- rather than just conversation with your immediate contacts -- it gravitated tow
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by dgant 9y ago
They sure do have a long way to go. That's what makes it exciting! Real time strategy games are the last frontier for human superiority in competitive games, and it looks to be a generational gap like Chess or Go.
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by dgant 9y ago
The absence of such techniques is usually due to prioritization rather than ignorance. Most of the time the challenge is just the sheer complexity of basic decisionmaking. The author of this article did a frame-by-frame breakdown of unit at
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by dgant 9y ago
Hi all. I'm an author of a currently competing Starcraft AI and am pretty familiar with the scene and the techniques used. Happy to answer any questions. This article is from 2015. Some recent updates: Facebook and Alibaba recently pub
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by dgant 10y ago
On Windows, I can see the logo on one of my screens, but not the other.
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by dgant 10y ago
Might be referring to NT
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by dgant 10y ago
His representatives are generally very lenient on unreleased material and very strict on material that's commercially available.
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by dgant 10y ago
What's the context of this?
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by dgant 10y ago
They can if the supply greatly increases. That's among the reasons why a project longer the Triboro brings so much opportunity. Decentralizing New York real estate would drastically improve affordability.
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by dgant 10y ago
Part of the challenge is that design isn't viewed in isolation. A design leaves an impression on the viewer partly based on how it contrasts with other designs. A minimalist logo in a sea of embellished logos says "We are smarter
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by dgant 11y ago
Starcraft 1 and Warcraft 3 were something powerful, that we haven't really seen since: A platform for distributed game design and testing. You could play mods as easily as the game itself. Designers could fork each other's maps. T

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