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Can we stop bombing please?
After the WWII, the entire field of operations was taking to a different level where analogue contexts no longer defined the course of action, policy and the direction of future investments. RAND took the battlefield to space, thereby introducing and eventually rendering the axiomatic drivers to the digital age of computers and coding. It was the clear insight of the military commanders and political leadership that the new operational fields would require a new kind of intelligence to lead and co-direct with the traditional military expertise; the speculative and creative engineer-researcher able to define his very own new...
Rob van Kranenburg
Procedural Bestiary and the Next Generation of CG Software
https://player.vimeo.com/video/703402772
In the previous essay “Procedural content creation F.A.Q.” I’ve claimed that it would take few months to assemble a full-scale creature generator. So I took those months and did it – introducing Kozinarium v1.0 v1.5:
Procedural Creature Generator from Denis Kozlov on Vimeo.
Procedural systems I’ve been developing during the recent years served different purposes, not the least one being exploration of how far one can go in formalizing the visual art, expressing its language in machine-readable terms. “Quite far” is the answer I’ve got, and today I’d like to share my vision of the next generation of artistic tools which could...
Gameplay Concepts
Over the last 6 months I've been working almost exclusively on new adding gameplay elements to enrich the overall game environment. Some are general concepts, applicable to the main universal sandbox. Others are more specific and fill out the lore of the gameworld. Others such as missions, factions etc. are still to come.
Here are the last 6 months worth of gameplay concepts, in alphabetical order.
Air Resistance
When ships enter/leave atmospheres they encounter air resistance. This is imparted as a drag on the physics of the ships, with the primary effects being reduction of top speed, and dampening of flight controls.
Ships may...
pegwars
Ship Dashboards
Here's a quick look at a prototype dashboard for spaceships. Like everything else in the game so far, the artwork is 100% prototype. In Pegwars, spaceships are like future cars, so I've modeled the prototype from an 80's classic sports car. The 80's really was the bomb, I love it how car designers tried to get so futuristic for a period of time.
The gauges, from left to right :
- Hull Integrity
- Shields
- Engine Revs
- (Top) Set Speed
- (Bottom) Actual Speed
- Current Gravity Forces
- Power Usage
- Power Available
Left and right of the dash will be a couple of MFD's (multi-function displays)...
pegwars
Manifesto for a n o m a l i e s
A poeme en prose
People, if you get this, here is a manifesto.
and then of course this page would be empty as you would get it anyway.
Still, there is a very small, m i n u t e possibility that you are an anomaly, as well as being on a scale of 1 to 10, a 9 out of ten. Just saying in numbers as it makes the point easy in the days, these days, of numbers.
You think so? Then read on. Everything is going be all right then. (sway with it, stay with it)
There are about 6 to 7 intelligences....
Rob van Kranenburg
Decentralized: Autonomous dignity
It hit me last evening at a crypto meeting at BitBelgium in Gent. The room was packed. And no hipsters. At all. Jimmy Two Button MiningKingsz spoke wisely of biosmodding and overclocking to get more hash power, the small time grafters looking so smart from the Muide and all over were talking alt coin, Federal Police in the house ( I guess with the obvious photographer :), David doing a fantastic political intro with heart as he called the impressive youngster from Gent4Humanity on stage to talk about the refugees in Calais and how we should have more solidarity simply...
Rob van Kranenburg
"Smart" is the word for Digital Assistants.
The use of digital assistants has continued to expand over the past few years with better algorithms and increased databases. Whether it is Amazon's Alexa, Google Assistant, Apple Siri and Microsoft Cortana or a device that is generally called part of the Internet of Things, (IoT), they are fairly simple in their ability to provide information that could be considered artificial intelligence or a neural network. They are learning preferences but of course they are gathering data as well. That is called marketing!
In 2012 I posted my own experience with a digital assistant that I had already used for...
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Stefek99 at 17:33, 8 January 2018
← Older revision Revision as of 17:33, 8 January 2018 Line 192: Line 192: Projects that are waiting to be completed but due to lack of resources ''(knowledge, time, skills)'' are there waiting for someone with complimentary skills. Note that monetary exchange is not required - it can be either a donation, skill swap or dedicating moneys towards LHS or some notable charities.Projects that are waiting to be completed but due to lack of resources ''(knowledge, time, skills)'' are there waiting for someone with complimentary skills. Note that monetary exchange is not required - it can be either a donation, skill swap or dedicating...The Elephant in the Brain
It's finally here!
The Elephant in the Brain: Hidden Motives in Everyday Life — my first book, coauthored with Robin Hanson — is now widely available.
You can find the ebook version on Kindle, Google Play, and iBooks. It's also out in hardcover from Amazon, Target.com, and other online retailers. (Cheapest we've seen is on Alibris). And today, I'm thrilled to announce, it can be found on shelves in actual brick-and-mortar bookstores:
[HT: Jeffrey Yu.]
This was a years-long journey — including more than a year and a half since finishing the manuscript! — and I'm extremely proud of what Robin and I...