All Blog Posts Tagged 'ai' (4)

This news post on Macrumors and my thoughts on the technology behind it... New Scientist points out an Apple patent application published today by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office that discloses techniques for digitally "detecting whether consumer abuse has occurred in an electronic device." The application cites as examples assessing exposure to liquids, extreme temperatures, or excessive shock, as well as… Continue

I recall when I started gaming on my Pentium 133 laptop, just when Blizzard's Diablo was hitting the shelves. Oh, MAN what a game! I was hooked. Warcraft II was also out and I remember the hours I used to spend wasting away in front of the computer. It got to be too much. Round about the time I convinced my mother to buy me a $5000.00 Dell workstation for Christmas (with the world-legendary Pentium 4 (!) inside) to play Starcraft with, I was spending hours every day just clicking away, drones,… Continue

Creativity is something i hold as sacred or as close to sacred as possible. The only defacto type of real material immortality one can claim is immortality through ones creations. Quantum physics suggest dimensions beyond the basic 3 all of them encompassing all possible states and positions of all subatomic particles in the universe (I.E multiple realities) Combine this with "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic" -Arthur C Clark or the derived "Any sufficient… Continue

As some of you may know I'm a budding hobbyist games developer. Well I wanted to blog about a recent series of events that happened over the past week to do with my indie game development activities. It all started when I noticed a new version of the Irrlicht 3D Graphics Libary was released. I downloaded it and started playing with it's associated scene editor IrrEdit. I have previously used this Libary for small 3D game enviroment demos, but got fustrated with certain lighting issues and aband… Continue