After I've created AI for my chess game, I'm moving on to creating a simple neural network simulator. I don't think I'm going to bother with complex or pretty GUIs for now ( Read more... )

I love Master of Orion II. There is no better game, period. Except for Dune II.*

And these are both games that were made twenty years ago.

* Not to be confused with Doom 2 which was also great when it came out.

I spent ALL day working out a stupid java null pointer exceptions... in one notable case it was just an uninitialized object.
But with each succesful JUnit test I grow confident in that the code will be clean.

I was staring at electric sheep for a few minutes ( Read more... )

There are degrees of extensibility and I am going too far... I didn't realize that was possible.

I think I will get to the AI part by Monday.

Once that is done, I have to decide whether to implement first (1) a nice GUI or (2) an analyzer.

I thought my computer was just slow, but I fixed a router/voiceoverip/additionalwirelessrouter problem and I can't believe how fast it is now! Go Wireless G!

Turns out there are more difficulties than I expected ( Read more... )

Have been creating a chess "engine". So far the implementation seems good. But then, all I have is the data structure and a method to return legal moves for each chess piece ( Read more... )

I suddenly love Java and Eclipse.

You Should Get a PhD in Liberal Arts (like political science, literature, or philosophy)
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