Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup
One thing that we are doing this time around that is totally new — our AI cheated in the past. Starcraft and Warcraft III saw the whole map, so the AI could see what the player was building or doing at any given time. The AI in Starcraft 2 now has to scout, and it’s much harder to do, but there is a pretty effective AI in there for now.
From here.
I think I just had a nerdgasm. Excuse me while I go recover.
My sisters used to squee over this A-ha! video back in the day. I couldn’t figure out what the video was about then, and I still can’t now.
Fortunately, other folks had the same problem - and they reworked the video, with new lyrics. The guy hits the high notes and everything. Obviously, the new lyrics score for clarity, if not exactly for squee-worthiness.
Well, actually - I cannot, but go look anyway. Worldmapper provides maps of the world with sizes relative to various criteria; most of them arcane.
Endlessly fascinating if your interests include geography and a bit of statistics.
In other news, I seem to have more or less lost my self in activities outside the internet since I came back here. Trying to resume online behaviour in small steps. When I was living in the UK, life was more measured.
I do about the same amount of work there as here (different sorts of work, so it’s apples to research work really) but I feel more a bystander, more detached in the UK than I do here. Here, I’m somehow more in the middle of things and that leaves me precious little time to concentrate on internetterly activity. A large part of this can be attributed to living close to family - it’s much more difficult to lead a hermit-like existence when you’re sharing a city with my folks.
But in the meantime, at least life outside the internet is finally beginning to pick up.
