jtolmar

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by jtolmar 9y ago
This is pretty nifty! Do you have any desire to add AI? I could almost write a generic AI for your current version; the two things that are missing are a way to enumerate the possible moves (the ability to pass extra arguments to a move cau
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by jtolmar 9y ago
SC:R's art direction was "It should be like putting your glasses on."[1] It's about as conservative an art direction as can be had short of changing nothing. [1] https://starcraft.com/en-us/articles&
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by jtolmar 9y ago
Stating opinions like facts, the standard units should be: 1) Arcminutes at typical view distance. The sun is 32 arcminutes and a css pixel is 1.278 arcminutes. This is the primary unit for measuring content. 2) Percent. This is the primary
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by jtolmar 9y ago
If I did all my math/googling right, one acre of managed forest can produce about thirty square meters of the 20-inch-thick panels mentioned in the article per year. (A typical wood weighing 0.4 tons per square meter and a managed fore
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by jtolmar 9y ago
Making part of the UI display-only is not wasting space. The problem with these phones is the insistence to push UI elements to the corners on touch screens even though original the UX motivation for putting important things in corners was
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by jtolmar 9y ago
A network of free services will always have gaps. Food, water, shelter... what about power, internet, clothes? Something equally important that not everyone needs? Basic income guarantees that the gaps are filled. It even makes markets more
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It makes a much better sci-fi story if the future is an extrapolation of the present. We're not in this moment collapsing into a theocracy so torturing a brain in a jar isn't so punchy. Instead, imagine that a company pays for you
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Yes, but tree search + neural net is still pretty generic. It only assumes that you can enumerate branches.
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That resulting color space isn't perceptually uniform anymore. LCH is a hue-based version of LAB, which is perceptually uniform (when changing one dimension at a time) and easy to read, but unfortunately the gamut of what's displa
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by jtolmar 9y ago
Pixel art has a ton of advantages: * It's cheap. It takes as much talent to make great pixel art as anything, but it takes less time to do than most styles. Some cartoon vector styles or voxel styles could compete here. * Passable pixe
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by jtolmar 9y ago
It's been years since I last tried, but I remember vector graphics being much harder to import. Not only do you have to bring in considerations more familiar to 3D like consistent units and origin points, but it's also just not su
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by jtolmar 9y ago
I agree that typography could be an exact science, but I think starting with mathematics would be the wrong choice. Rather, it would be better to devise perceptual experiments and back fit a mathematical model to the results. The excellent
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UBI would mean more people could afford to be artists. You'd never catch up.
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My guess would be trade imbalance. If you can't find something to put in it, re-using the container means paying to ship it empty.
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by jtolmar 9y ago
You can buy containers that are new, one trip, or well-worn. Usually the one trip containers are significantly cheaper than new, and well-worn are somewhat cheaper than that. But it varies, and I've occasionally seen new ones be cheape
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by jtolmar 9y ago
It's deterministic, but changes multiple times per city block, so it's hard to build a model that accurately does something about it.
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by jtolmar 9y ago
I've been working on GPS filtering for three years and that's bad even by my standards. Chips with L5 should do a lot to clear that up though.
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by jtolmar 9y ago
It's pretty much raw GPS if you're in walking or biking mode. Driving mode uses sophisticated filtering algorithms, and doesn't actually make any assumptions about your speed, though it does assume you're on a road.
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by jtolmar 9y ago
The toggle for that notification is in the Maps app under Hamburger > Settings > Notifications > Your Contributions. (If you think that's buried, you should see the developer menu.) The difference between 5m accuracy and 30cm
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by jtolmar 9y ago
There already is a Facebook, why are you trying to disrupt it? Because it promotes bite-sized and current content over depth? A website that's just a personal to-read queue with a share button. Because its one-size-fits-all approach th
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by jtolmar 9y ago
Do you think you could write an interpreter? If so, you can write an interpreter that "interprets" by spitting out a bunch of Java or Python (or whatever). That's a transpiler. If you can write that, you just need to learn LL
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by jtolmar 9y ago
Well, egg on my face then. What's the current choice?
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The preferred opening for Protoss in PvZ (on most maps) is the forge fast-expand. If the Zerg player doesn't want to play an economic game in response, they have a variety of all-in strategies available. There is a lengthy article on T
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by jtolmar 9y ago
I thought the question was a bout the original game? I don't know much about the SC2 AIs. You could play some games and watch the replays to tell if consistently looks like it's responding to things it shouldn't know. I remem
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The ones built into the game can see past fog of war. Blizzard published a nice overview of how they work, though I don't think it actually mentions that cheat. http://classic.battle.net/scc/faq/aiscripts.shtm
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by jtolmar 9y ago
> intuiting what your opponent isn't ready for I haven't played AOE2 so I don't know if the mechanics are similar enough to translate, but my goal for my Starcraft bot is to do precisely this. If you can enumerate the poss
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by jtolmar 9y ago
Positioning matters in basically every decision in Starcraft and humans are incredibly good at precisely that.
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Currently bot micro can perfectly time hit and run "dance" maneuvers on all their attacking units independently (several top bots are Terran and do this with Vultures). But solving this in a way that takes terrain into account is
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In SC1 it's trivially easy to make a bot that spams so many actions it prevents your units from functioning properly. In fact it's easy to do accidentally. A lot of my early efforts into making a bot have been trying to find ways
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That only works if everyone has equal bargaining power. In the fruit-gold machine world, sure the price of gold tanks, but as long as there are people willing to pay more for gold than others are able to pay for fruit, the poor can't e

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