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Researchers teach AI how to win at shooters (without cheating)

Jun22
by on June 22, 2018 at 6:26 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, artificial intelligence, gaming


A pair of researchers recently developed a method for teaching AI to play first person shooters without cheating. Instead of giving a ‘computer’ opponent unfair access to game code or supernatural aiming abilities, the AI learns to aim and shoot the same way a human does: by practicing. The duo, scientists at the National University of Ireland Galway’s computer science department, set out to develop a way for an AI bot in a video game to adapt to a human’s skill level. Traditionally the “AI” in a video game isn’t artificial intelligence at all, but merely scripted programming that tells…

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LinkedIn is a hellhole and this Twitter account proves it

Jun22
by on June 22, 2018 at 6:18 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Social Media


LinkedIn is a unique kind of toxic nightmare.  The type that, if it were a real city or town, would be the desolate setting of a video game where you blast its mutated inhabitants with railguns. Highlighting the weapons-grade twattery of the residents of LinkedIn-upon-Thames is my current favorite Twitter account, @craponlinkedin, which wades through the worst content on the world’s biggest professional networking site, and resurfaces it for our own personal amusement. It’s a hard job, but someone has to do it, and believe me when I say it’s bad. If you thought broetry was as bad as it got,…

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LinkedIn is a hellhole and this Twitter account proves it

Jun22
by on June 22, 2018 at 6:18 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Social Media


LinkedIn is a unique kind of toxic nightmare.  The type that, if it were a real city or town, would be the desolate setting of a video game where you blast its mutated inhabitants with railguns. Highlighting the weapons-grade twattery of the residents of LinkedIn-upon-Thames is my current favorite Twitter account, @craponlinkedin, which wades through the worst content on the world’s biggest professional networking site, and resurfaces it for our own personal amusement. It’s a hard job, but someone has to do it, and believe me when I say it’s bad. If you thought broetry was as bad as it got,…

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LinkedIn is a hellhole and this Twitter account proves it

Jun22
by on June 22, 2018 at 6:18 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Social Media


LinkedIn is a unique kind of toxic nightmare.  The type that, if it were a real city or town, would be the desolate setting of a video game where you blast its mutated inhabitants with railguns. Highlighting the weapons-grade twattery of the residents of LinkedIn-upon-Thames is my current favorite Twitter account, @craponlinkedin, which wades through the worst content on the world’s biggest professional networking site, and resurfaces it for our own personal amusement. It’s a hard job, but someone has to do it, and believe me when I say it’s bad. If you thought broetry was as bad as it got,…

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GTFO might be the scariest team-based shooter I’ve ever played

Jun22
by on June 22, 2018 at 5:10 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, gaming


I’ve played very few scary games — I mean really, truly scary. I’m talking about the kind of fear where your blood runs cold, and you feel every hair on the back of your neck stand up like pine trees in a forest. The kind of fear that makes you involuntarily hold your breath, and causes beads of sweat to build upon your forehead. Off the top of my head, I can think of Doom, Alien: Isolation, Resident Evil 7: Biohazard, and Amnesia: The Dark Descent. That’s it. It’s a small list, but it just got bigger, because earlier this…

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