Cordeos

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  1. Crusader K+ngs II

    Going back to at least Old Gods I remember new expansions being broken. I think I will get this one after I finish Xcom2 and Firewatch.
  2. Idle Cook Club - Veggie Feeds-me: My Body Is Ready

    I think it would be just fine. Replacing some of the water with a stock of some kind or adding a bullion cube is a good way to hedge your bets.
  3. XCOM 2

    I have 14 friends signed up so far, I always have trouble deciding if winning, or having them die in amusing ways is better. Last time one friend got zombified and killed another. Good stuff.
  4. Movie/TV recommendations

    I watched Beasts of no Nation last night. It was very well done, reminded me of A Long Way Gone. The best part of the movie for me was the first section where the main character is just a kid living in a village not really connected with the war raging in his country. I wish there had been more scenes of him and his family on the run since the confusing and fear of fleeing both sides is something that is happening in Syria right now. His family has no dog in the fight, they just want to survive and escape the conflict.
  5. Idle Cook Club - Veggie Feeds-me: My Body Is Ready

    I made Minestrone! Its quite good, and since it had both Cannellini beans and green beans its a theme double wammy. My only complaint is that I failed to start the soup early enough and was quite hungry by the time the 2.5 hour cook time was over. https://food52.com/recipes/4656-minestrone-soup
  6. Photos of things

    I biked over to a waterfall near where I live, didn't realize how cool it would look, or that I would be able to go behind it.
  7. I Had a Random Thought (About Video Games)

    The Xbox1 controller works fine on Windows 7
  8. AI has been beating humans at board games for a while now. I get that there is a history of using it as a tech demo, but surely if this tech is as impressive as it seems, it can do something far more interesting that winning another more complex board game.
  9. It used 30 million recorded human moves and then played itself a bunch to create new moves. I don't mean to denigrate the tech, I just don't find Go to be a good example of what this new tech is good for. Watson winning Jeopardy was IMO a lot more impressive because it had to use human language. This doesn't mean Watsons tech was better, just that its accomplishment seemed greater. There is a lot of overexcited science reporting these days, a possible ninth planet, maybe exists, a new biggest prime that is pretty useless until we find bigger ones.
  10. I Had a Random Thought (About Video Games)

    That is what I ended up doing since it seemed like the simplest solution.
  11. "The challenge lies in the nature of the game. Even the most powerful supercomputers lack the processing power to analyze the results of every possible move in any reasonable amount of time. When Deep Blue topped world chess champion Gary Kasparov in 1997, it did so with what’s called brute force. In essence, IBM’s supercomputer analyzed the outcome of every possible move, looking further ahead than any human possibly could. That’s simply not possible with Go. In chess, at any given turn, there are an average 35 possible moves. With Go—in which two players compete with polished stones on 19-by-19 grid—there are 250. And each of those 250 has another 250, and so on. As Hassabis points out, there are more possible positions on a Go board than atoms in the universe." What this says to me is, if we had better processors Go would totally be solvable with brute force. The solution used by AlphaGo is interesting and could be broadly useful, but winning Go itself seems like an incremental move up from Deep Blue, even if the technology isn't. "AlphaGo is a long way from real human intelligence—much less superintelligence. “This is a highly structured situation,” says Ryan Calo, an AI-focused law professor and the founder of the Tech Policy Lab at the University of Washington. “It’s not really human-level understanding.” " http://www.wired.com/2016/01/in-a-huge-breakthrough-googles-ai-beats-a-top-player-at-the-game-of-go/
  12. I Had a Random Thought (About Video Games)

    I have always liked Sony's controllers more as well. My problem is that I liked how the PS2 controller felt over PS3 and PS4 controllers, I don't think my favorite will ever be available for PC
  13. That's my point. Go is the kind of game that machines should be better at, making machines there are the best possible machines is cool, but I don't know how it gets us closer to something we would consider truly intelligent.. I am far more interested in AI that is able to be duplicitous, to react and change strategies drastically on the fly, that is able to judge trustworthiness as a way to make and break alliances. Some sort of politicsbot perhaps. Edit: now that I think about it making an AI that is really good at lying and scheming is probably a terrible idea. GoBots for everyone!
  14. Being really good at following rules and best strategy in a board game doesn't feel particularly human to me. The nonsense moves, and not abandoning at the right time actually seem more human to me, since we are prone to mistakes and doubling down on failing strategies in the hope that it will turn into a win.
  15. Again, its a very good GoAI, it doesn't make stupid mistakes. Not sure how that makes it more human as opposed to just better programmed.
  16. That is kind of what I was trying to say. This GoAI feels more incremental, they made a GoBot. The tech may be really impressive, but to me it just feels like a fancier chessbot. As opposed to making an AI that plays more like a human in a game that allows for more complex player actions.
  17. The threat of Big Dog

    Go is a two player piece placement game. This is less complex than a more than two player game with multiple victory paths and combat including random dice rolls allowing for things to just go horribly wrong due to bad luck. I know they are scripts right now, what I am saying is I would be far more impressed if they could make a 4X AI that plays like a human using tools similar to the GoAI.
  18. Crusader K+ngs II

    Does the units retreating thing mean I will have to chase enemy armies even more? Because Ug. I think you missed out on how important death sound variance by age, sex and method of death is
  19. I think there is a major difference in complexity between reacting to another players moves and reacting to their moves, what random card you drew/roll you got and what the did along with what they maybe drew or will roll.
  20. Longplays and Let's Plays?

    This guy walks across open world maps to see how long it takes: Just Cause 3 took 8 hours and 40 minutes.
  21. The threat of Big Dog

    I just posted this in the strategy games board, but its fitting here too. Games like checkers, chess, go etc are pretty solvable for AI. It just requires a lot of brute force type programming. I will get a lot more worried when AI can beat champions at games that have a lot of chance involved. Being able to build a winning strategy out of a bad set of rolls or draws is much more impressive/terrifying. Daft Souls latest episode had a good discussion about how AI in 4X don't hold grudges or really think long term. You can declare war on them over and over, betray them, steal from them, but if an alliance looks good to them in the short term they will make it again. In other news I am listening to Nick Bostrom's Superintelligence book. I am pretty unimpressed so far, he makes a lot of leaps and assumptions that I really don't think are valid. The paperclip robot example bugs me to no end. I just do see how an AI who is trying to produce 1 million paper clips just starts destroying the earth/solar system/galaxy to achieve its goal. This is a huge leap, you need an AI dumb enough not to know its going too far, but smart enough to trick all of humanity until it's too late.
  22. Games like checkers, chess, go etc are pretty solvable for AI. I will get a lot more worried when AI can beat champions at games that have a lot of chance involved. Being able to build a winning strategy out of a bad set of rolls or draws is much more impressive/terrifying. Daft Souls latest episode had a good discussion about how AI in 4X don't hold grudges or really think long term. You can declare war on them over and over, betray them, steal from them, but if an alliance looks good to them in the short term they will make it again.
  23. Idle Cook Club - Veggie Feeds-me: My Body Is Ready

    If anyone wants a good bean dish, here are some of my favorites: Pasta With Chickpea Sauce http://www.seriouseats.com/recipes/2015/02/pasta-chickpea-sauce-recipe.html Prebranac (Serbian Baked Beans) https://food52.com/recipes/19697-prebranac-serbian-baked-beans Chickpea, Pumpkin, and Sage Stew https://food52.com/recipes/31064-chickpea-pumpkin-and-sage-stew
  24. Black Lives Matter

    BLM Minneapolis had its facebook account temporarily suspended today: http://www.startribune.com/black-lives-matter-minneapolis-says-facebook-suspended-its-accounts-over-critical-posts/366588641/
  25. Elite: Dangerous (Kickstarter)

    I wish I had Elite so I could take part in this: https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2016/01/26/elite-dangerous-galaxy-edge-journey/