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by filiph 5y ago
Filip here, the person from the video. Unfortunately, the best sources about "old school" NLG are physical books. I really liked Building Natural Language Generation Systems as a start. Newer NLG tries to merge ML and the old appr
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by filiph 5y ago
It was my go-to game for a while. It was funny, because I bought this high end gaming laptop with real-time raytracing support and whatnot and then used it to play a game that is literally just text and some ASCII art in a terminal-like win
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by filiph 5y ago
Author here. The game has several levels (explored more in my 2017 "fractal stories article"[1]) - from top to bottom it can be something like > you're in a room > you're talking to this person > you're in
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by filiph 5y ago
Oh, and Warsim: The Realm of Aslona.
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by filiph 5y ago
You might enjoy King of Dragon Pass and newer games from that same developer ( https://sixages.com/ ).
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by filiph 5y ago
Author of the game here. I don't mention it in the article or the video, but AI Dungeon is exactly what I didn't set out to do. GPT-2/3-based games are cool, but they have no ground truth.
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by filiph 5y ago
Hi, I'm the author. One of the coolest things I learned after releasing the game was that it's played by folks with visual impairment. It's "playable with issues" (meaning I have work to do), but playable nonetheles
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Show HN: An open world RPG that uses NLG to “render” game state in prose(egamebook.com)
1 points by filiph 5y ago|0 comments
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Intro to Bayes’ theorem for intermediate developers(selfimproving.dev)
4 points by filiph 6y ago|0 comments
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by filiph 6y ago
I often stay late trying to fix a bug or solve some problem, and I'm furious when someone distracts me. Meanwhile, when I do _anything else_ that's as frustrating, I _love_ distractions to a fault.
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“Programming Is Fun”(selfimproving.dev)
4 points by filiph 6y ago|2 comments
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by filiph 7y ago
Fixed! Thanks for the report. This also fixes `sqrt(-10~-5)` and other fun inputs.
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by filiph 7y ago
Thank you! I've been thinking about this problem for years, and had several ideas in that time. But the complexity always grew out of proportion as I started adding "features" to the notation and the tool. In the end, I'
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by filiph 7y ago
Thank you! I already have a CLI tool and a library, but I'd like to make it a bit less hairy before releasing. I also want to build an iOS / Android app. But I wanted to release a web app first because that has by far the lowest b
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Show HN: Unsure Calculator – back-of-a-napkin probabilistic calculator(filiph.github.io)
58 points by filiph 7y ago|14 comments
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by filiph 8y ago
We get this a lot. To the point that my colleague wrote this: https://hackernoon.com/why-flutter-uses-dart-dd635a054ebf It's not easy to explain in a HN comment. Technical decisions like these never are. In this partic
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by filiph 9y ago
Disclaimer: I work in the Flutter team, and by extension on the Dart team at Google. We all see the knee jerk reactions to Dart. Yet, most people who _actually_ try it tend to like it a lot. We've run actual studies and something like
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by filiph 9y ago
Dart is a major reason that the efficient underlying UI framework works so well: https://hackernoon.com/why-flutter-uses-dart-dd635a054ebf
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by filiph 9y ago
Just a note: one of Flutter's differentiators is that renders every pixel, straight to OpenGL / Vulkan. It doesn't do cross-platform the way RN or Xamarin does it. It's more like Unity. Since most featured mobile apps no
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Flutter is now beta(medium.com)
26 points by filiph 9y ago|0 comments
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Player agency in an open world, versus combinatorial explosion(medium.com)
2 points by filiph 9y ago|0 comments
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by filiph 9y ago
Thanks! Yes, there is a low traffic mailing list. On mobile so can't share the link but if you open the game again and click the Info button, it's there.
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by filiph 9y ago
I love King of Dragon Pass! It was definitely an inspiration (although I found out about it only after I set out to build this whole thing) and at one point I wanted my game to be basically a king/lineage simulator with options to &quo
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by filiph 9y ago
Author here. I played Wizardry games in the 1990s. How is the combat system in Wizardry similar to what I'm arriving at with the "fractal stories" concept? I actually brought up a Wizardry 7 gameplay video just to make sure I
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by filiph 9y ago
Author here. When referring to text adventures I didn't mean just the ones that came in the past few years, of course. When I say "text adventure" I mostly mean things like Zork and MUDs.
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by filiph 9y ago
Author here. At one point I made a big pivot towards just text + options. Before, I had complicated systems for what I called Forms (basically, minigames). Once you have only text + options, that's when you need to start thinking about
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by filiph 9y ago
Author here. I'm surprised (and very happy!) you were able to play through. I know accessibility is one thing I haven't given enough attention to. If you have specific suggestions for improvement, I'm all ears. I'm getti
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by filiph 9y ago
Thanks! Author here. I think quite a few videogames have different levels. For example, I remember an old 1990s game called Wargasm where you could both be the general and the soldier. It was a lot of fun. Most videogames don't go ther
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by filiph 9y ago
Author of the article (and the game) here. I didn't mention MUDs because I didn't want to scare away people with more concepts, but of course they are a huge part of what I consider interactive fiction. I'm not sure if any MU
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by filiph 9y ago
Curious: what do you expect as keyboard controls. I've had this on my TODO list for ages and I have my own idea of what they should be, but I'd love to capture the expectations first, so that I don't break them.

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