lol HUSNG + PT4.

I think the scale of the code matters to determine the length of time before it gets silly.

In my case it was basically 1 line of code that was doing nothing more than calling a tested (passed) function and outputting the results to an element. It was also something that you couldn't google too.

I wish Opera's UI had an icon somewhere showing that scripts are disabled.

If anyone ever asks you the difference between Java and JavaScript

"Java is to JavaScript what Car is to Carpet"

Nice.

I got more info on the C++ Cert class my buddy is taking. It is one year long, and the goal of the class is to recreate Space Invaders, I think. Not sure if the goal is to do it in 1mb or RAM, but apparently they will be using OOP.

In any case, he is having quite a bit of fun with it, but I'm still disturbed by the idea that he keeps saying the class is really easy. This is either a result of the fact that he is still in the early stages, the instructor is so amazing that it is easy, or that the class is watered down.

They have him working on Visual Studio and Mingw. And that is all I know right now.

Regardless of torturing a student with C++ as an intro to programming class and the apparent absurdity of certification, I think it is pretty cool that he is enjoying it and he is learning from someone that apparently knows what he is doing.

hi guys again, so i decided that im going to do nlhe HU AI for my dissertation (third year), quick few questions:

1. What language would you guys do it in? i got most experience in java but for some reason i dont really like it all that much (dont know why), done a tron game in C++ but im not that great in it. Think its worth to learn c# to do this in? (always heard thats a good language to learn?)

2. is there any decent material/papers out there that i should read before i start?

3. people who done it before, any advice in general about making one?

sad thing about this project is that i know the bot is going to suck compared to what i want it to be like

As someone who is looking to break into programming, that does sound like a pretty cool way to do it.

I've been chugging away at introduction books and tutorials, and I've come to the realization that this is something I'm going to need to be taught to me. I was reading The C++ Programming Language text tonight, and got stuck on a number of concepts within the first minutes. Things like the difference between constants and constant expressions, pointers, vectors, etc. It's all chinese to me.

It sucks not being able to make any progress, but I'm going to be headed back to uni to learn all this stuff the right way, and will probably do codeacademy and intro to programming MIT ocw to stay busy.

That's the second time ITT I have gone "huh" at a proposed dissertation project. Maybe I'm misunderstanding but dissertation=stuff for a PhD, right? Typically in the 250 pages+ range and published as a book.

I'm curious because I am working on a dissertation in the same field and am developing multiple AIs for NL along with the framework for executing them but all of that is pretty much the appendix of the paper. Granted I'm not focusing on building the best possible AI but on another angle but still.

Developing a single AI doesn't seem to be a huge project (enough for a PhD) unless you come up with some pretty spectecular/new ideas. More like journal article at best, probably conference paper. Hope that doesn't sound like dick comment. Either way you need to figure out why your AI is needed, how it compares to/improves on existing AIs, what existing problems it solves etc..."I want to do it because it sounds like fun" generally won't fly as an explanation in academics (even if it's usually the real reason).

Either way, check out the AAAI poker bot challange:
http://www.computerpokercompetition.org/

Teams tend to publish about their bots, there's a bunch of limit in there as well.

you asked me this last time ive just gone into my third year of university. Havent got a qualification from it yet. Final year project is called a dissertation (in the UK that is). phd is years away lol

its why i said my bot wont be good at all and nothing to the level i want it to be at. (because i havent got THAT much experience/research in programming, just two years, with the first being all introduction)

but ty

Clowntable - I keep getting confused too. Are you working on a PhD now?

Not dickish, but just not true. I have no idea if it would meet the othe criteria of a dissertation, but it would meet the scope criteria. Writing a truly strong poker AI is massive in scope. It took the UofA team like 7 years before they produced Polaris, which was their first really decent effort.

If it doesn't have to be very good, then sure, it's not that hard.....

My dissertation project was a HU limit holdem AI bot. It was pretty **** (not hard at all to beat), and it was difficult to write. Actually writing the rules for HU holdem I found to be the bulk of the work and quite tricky before I could apply any AI. I compesnated for this with brute forcing all in HU hand combos and worked those numbers into the AIs strategy. Got a 1st for that dissertation and thoroughly enjoyed doing it. Wrote it as a C console application.

Third year dissertation is completely different to a PHD dissertation. I think a HU bot is a great project, if you have a genuine interest and passion in it you inevitably will do well. There's a lot to write about, and it's not a usual dissertation which works to your advantage when it's being marked imo.

I suspect you have to look at the state of the art though. What made an acceptable PhD project 5-10 years ago probably wouldn't be acceptable now.

what is a 1st?

Yes

And lol me..yeah same guy and not a PhD and same answer as before it's an excellent project for a final project or something heh. If you don't mind you could use Clojure and build on dave's infrastructure.
If you build a bot, check out the AAAI competition and their playing framework and write it for that imo.

Completely agree with this but the post read more like "I'll do my best and see what happens". That being said "I built a better mousetrap" PhDs are usually fairly hard to justify and the mousetrap needs to be quite a bit better than existing ones. Hyperborean, Polaris etc. are already really good and in combination use most of the interesting AI techniques out there (imo).

I'm not sure of its worth his time to use my bot if he doesn't use Lisp already. Also, the command live version on github has a few bugs and hangs up a bit. I'm not ready to release an update, and I won't be for at least 3 weeks.

I could push a jar up, but I suspect there are faster, more accurate, and more complete jars on the internet.

I do that all day checking to see if sites are responsive

Lol Samsung region locking new cell phones (can't switch in a cheapo simcard from another country). As a S4 owner that tends to travel...I am not amused.
What a dumb business decision though.

Also anyone curious/exited about SteamOS/the hardware?

Win + <-

Using a mouse for that is terribly inneficient.

Sadly so does our creative team and the business leaders at my company. They've come to think resizing the browser is a requirement. They're going to be very disappointed when I have to explain to them that because they designed a completely different nav for phones - I'm not going to bring back unnecessary mobile nav data across the wire to the desktop. So when they resize their desktop browser to phone-size, they're going to see an ugly refresh.

I'm waiting until after all their testing is done.

What about tablets yo

Honestly, I can't see any good reason to use a Sumsung. Why would anyone want a phone that is filled up with a bunch of bloatware they never use? The number one question I get asked by people with a Samsung is if there "is any way to get rid of all these stupid programs."

I simply tell them that this would require rooting, which will void their warranty. Then I say they probably have enough memory to handle it. I hear people here in LA make pretty good money rooting and jail-breaking phones @ $50+ a pop.

I've had an Android for nearly 2 years now. I rooted it a while back and I'm way over the initial awe of it. Unfortunately, Blackberry is apparently out of business and it is nearly impossible to roll back to a dumb phone these days.

All I use the phone for is sending texts, making phone calls, listening to music and, once in a while, looking at the internet.

I hate my phone and I hate phone manufacturers more for limiting my choices.

EDIT 2 +: That ****ing battery, man...

Does anyone have any ideas why this might not be working?

I'm trying to redirect www to not www.

I set up the CNAME on DO. When I go to www(dot)mySite(dot)com, I simply get a 404.

I tried a bunch of variations on the theme, but none of them seem to work:

http://nginx.org/en/docs/http/conver...ite_rules.html

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7...-www-to-no-www

http://rtcamp.com/wordpress-nginx/tu...w-redirection/

Not offhand but wouldn't the $scheme always be http since you're dealing with only port 80?