Well, I still haven't done much work on Chess, only a bit on Cards.
I got this great idea for a real AI: make speech objects (like Word, Verb, Adjective, Sentence, DirectObject, IndirectObject, Preposition, etc.) I could program the rules for building a sentence into the AI, and teach the computer how to speak English! This could be a lot more work than I've ever done, but if it works, it'll certainly pay off! (Maybe I could an open-source project on java.net!)
I'm getting excited by one of my ideas again, so now I have to go work.
Until next time, remember: An ideal idea is something every thinker strives for. It is an idea that can be imagined and realized independently of the time period in which it is thought up.
---TDM
Monday, February 28, 2005
Wednesday, February 23, 2005
Cubed
I'm busy trying to solve Rubik's cube. I'm so close...
Anyway, a while ago I saw one of my friends had a "Rubik's pyramid"--I'm not sure of the actual name. If anyone knows where I can get one, be sure to let me know via a comment. (I might google it later, too.)
Haven't done any work worth mentioning here. So I will sign off here.
Until next time, remember: Less, though it may be worth more, tends to cost more.
---TDM
Anyway, a while ago I saw one of my friends had a "Rubik's pyramid"--I'm not sure of the actual name. If anyone knows where I can get one, be sure to let me know via a comment. (I might google it later, too.)
Haven't done any work worth mentioning here. So I will sign off here.
Until next time, remember: Less, though it may be worth more, tends to cost more.
---TDM
Monday, February 21, 2005
What a Day[s]
It says I haven't posted since last week...I thought I did...
Anyway, no progress on Chess since last time. I have instead been working on the card project I was telling about before (and is mentioned on my home site, which I'm sure none of you have seen yet (click the link at the top (What? You're lazy? Fine. Here's another link. ))).
I finished my Italian skit, and just in time; it's due tomorrow. My topic? (Did I already tell you this?) Well, I was having such a hard time coming up with an idea that I did a skit on that. In my skit, I'm an Italian student who can't come up with an idea for his Italian skit, until he gets an idea to do a skit based on an Italian student who can't come up with an idea for his Italian skit, until he gets an idea to do a skit based on an Italian student who can't come up with an idea for his Italian skit, until he gets an idea to do a skit based on an Italian student....etc....infinitely...
Sounds like fun, huh? The best part is: I only have to film each scene once! and I just record it multiple times on the VHS tape I have to submit it on.
And I've finally arrived at a decision to not attend SIG this year as I have done for the past 4 years. For those of you who knew me at SIG and somehow found this site and figured out who I am, sorry I won't see you again this summer. :P
Nothing else happening.
Until next time, remember: If you wait until the last minute on a big project, you'd better hope it's a looooooooooooonnnnnnnng minute.
---TDM
Anyway, no progress on Chess since last time. I have instead been working on the card project I was telling about before (and is mentioned on my home site, which I'm sure none of you have seen yet (click the link at the top (What? You're lazy? Fine. Here's another link. ))).
I finished my Italian skit, and just in time; it's due tomorrow. My topic? (Did I already tell you this?) Well, I was having such a hard time coming up with an idea that I did a skit on that. In my skit, I'm an Italian student who can't come up with an idea for his Italian skit, until he gets an idea to do a skit based on an Italian student who can't come up with an idea for his Italian skit, until he gets an idea to do a skit based on an Italian student who can't come up with an idea for his Italian skit, until he gets an idea to do a skit based on an Italian student....etc....infinitely...
Sounds like fun, huh? The best part is: I only have to film each scene once! and I just record it multiple times on the VHS tape I have to submit it on.
And I've finally arrived at a decision to not attend SIG this year as I have done for the past 4 years. For those of you who knew me at SIG and somehow found this site and figured out who I am, sorry I won't see you again this summer. :P
Nothing else happening.
Until next time, remember: If you wait until the last minute on a big project, you'd better hope it's a looooooooooooonnnnnnnng minute.
---TDM
Monday, February 14, 2005
Much Clamor About Nothing
What are Mondays for, huh?
Anyways, I have done absolutely nothing as far as programming or writing for some time now. i suppose I really should, but I just can't seem to find the time, energy, or impetus to do any work.
Yeah, get this: instead of that, I'm composing music. Composing music?! I just had a new idea (er, inspiration) for a piano song (as most of them are, even though I play the viola). So now I'm up to...[counts on his fingers]...at least 18 different projects that are not finished (and might never be finished, at the rate I'm completing them): 5 fiction projects (one comprised of seven novels), about 10 pieces of music (which I could ostensibly merge into one viola/piano piece (which I might actually do), and 2 programming projects, not to mention all the other ideas I have floating around in my head on or the quadrillions of pieces of paper I've written on and kept somewhere around here.
I'm just so tired all the time...I guess being depressed is exhausting.
Until next time, remember: Expand your horizons, but don't spread yourself too thinly.
---TDM
Anyways, I have done absolutely nothing as far as programming or writing for some time now. i suppose I really should, but I just can't seem to find the time, energy, or impetus to do any work.
Yeah, get this: instead of that, I'm composing music. Composing music?! I just had a new idea (er, inspiration) for a piano song (as most of them are, even though I play the viola). So now I'm up to...[counts on his fingers]...at least 18 different projects that are not finished (and might never be finished, at the rate I'm completing them): 5 fiction projects (one comprised of seven novels), about 10 pieces of music (which I could ostensibly merge into one viola/piano piece (which I might actually do), and 2 programming projects, not to mention all the other ideas I have floating around in my head on or the quadrillions of pieces of paper I've written on and kept somewhere around here.
I'm just so tired all the time...I guess being depressed is exhausting.
Until next time, remember: Expand your horizons, but don't spread yourself too thinly.
---TDM
Friday, February 11, 2005
Excess Information
Sorry for the long delay. My net service went down and it was such a difficult task to bring it back up. It finally got fixed on Wednesday, but I was too busy then and yesterday to post.
So, on Chess: I believe I have finished the AI, including the promotion logic (although there seems to be a problem with the AI choosing a new piece). There may not be enough files for all the board states. There tend to be other problems during running, but I can't recall all of them. If I have two AIs face each other, the GUI won't update until the game is over or a break occurs. (And the AI is so stupid that almost all games against itself are stalemates.)
I've got a lot more work to do.
And for my Italian skit, I've finally come up with an idea: in my skit, I have to do a skit for Italian, but I can't come up with any ideas. Eventually I get an idea--this very idea! (and it repeats for infinity...)
Yeah...
That's all I have to say for today.
Until next time, remember: Interruptions will distract you from your work, and distractions will interrupt your progress.
---TDM
So, on Chess: I believe I have finished the AI, including the promotion logic (although there seems to be a problem with the AI choosing a new piece). There may not be enough files for all the board states. There tend to be other problems during running, but I can't recall all of them. If I have two AIs face each other, the GUI won't update until the game is over or a break occurs. (And the AI is so stupid that almost all games against itself are stalemates.)
I've got a lot more work to do.
And for my Italian skit, I've finally come up with an idea: in my skit, I have to do a skit for Italian, but I can't come up with any ideas. Eventually I get an idea--this very idea! (and it repeats for infinity...)
Yeah...
That's all I have to say for today.
Until next time, remember: Interruptions will distract you from your work, and distractions will interrupt your progress.
---TDM
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