Free AI class at Stanford
A little recommendation – Peter Norvig and Sebastian Thrun, two quite famous people in the computer science world, are teaching a class in artificial intelligence this semester, starting next week, and...
View ArticleProjections
I’ve been playing around with isometric graphics lately. Specifically, I’m working on graphics generation – being a one-person team, it’s not practical for me to actually draw all the graphics I want...
View ArticleReinventing the wheel – graphics edition
Sometimes you wake up, after a few days\weeks of working on something, and realize you’re doing something else than what you initially thought you were doing. In my case, I realized today that even...
View ArticleFirst steps in the world of 3D
Today I decided to give myself a little break from programming and declare a Blender day – try to dive back into the world of 3D. Every other attempt I’ve ever made at it ended in a frustrated failure...
View ArticleL-systems and beautiful plants
I came across an interesting book a few days ago – “The Algorithmic Beauty of Plants” by Przemyslaw Prusinkiewicz and Aristid Lindenmayer. If you know me even a little, you should know that I can’t...
View ArticleThe Beauty of Noise
I worked a little on visual noise yesterday. Noise is a little hard to appreciate when your not a programmer / artist (or maybe a little of both), but when you’ve tried a little to make good looking...
View ArticleL-systems rendered in 3D
Remember when I got all excited about L-systems and algorithmically generated plants? That lame tree you saw in that post was definitely not the last you’ll hear of that. I’ve been making a lot of...
View ArticleLPC Dev Diary – Day 4
Characters moving on the screen! Most of the work today went on tweaking the combat engine, but I started some graphics and animation as well – mostly to be able to better test the engine, and also...
View ArticleMotion capture for the masses
Making good animation is hard. Good animation is beautiful. The combination of these two facts makes it highly desirable for me to find automatic, or otherwise easy, ways of making animation. A while...
View ArticleDoubts about AI risk – Part I
The dangers of artificial intelligence research are becoming an increasingly popular topic in scientific and philosophical circles, and it seems like everyone I know who studied the issue enough is...
View ArticleDoubts about AI risk – Part II
Continuing my series of posts expressing doubts about the warnings of AI superintelligence, and inviting the AI safety community to explain what I’m missing and convince me I should be worried. See...
View ArticleDoubts about AI risk – Part III
Last part in my series of posts expressing doubts about the warnings of AI superintelligence, and inviting the AI safety community to explain what I’m missing and convince me I should be worried. See...
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