Notes and essays

20 Mar 2024 A hallucinated new definition of AI
13 Feb 2024 This message does not exist
09 Aug 2023 Is ChatGPT a bit unsporting?
18 May 2023 Validation failed for some reasons
11 Sep 2022 Text-to-image for my inbox
15 May 2022 Operator precedence by textual substitution
10 Apr 2022 My research–teaching–service split, 2019–2021
05 May 2021 Academic ancestor graphs from Wikidata
26 Apr 2021 Deadlines for 2021 technical games research conferences
01 Mar 2021 Converting arbitrary base^exponent to scientific notation
29 Nov 2020 Internships for credit at American University
24 Oct 2020 Years since Republican control of major cities
28 Jul 2020 US universities announcing online Fall 2020
19 May 2020 Newsgames of the 2000s
01 Apr 2020 Opening for a funded Masters student
17 Nov 2019 Images from Wikidata
09 Jul 2019 C.A.R. Hoare's distant connection to the C. Hoare & Co private bank
28 Jan 2019 DeepMind AlphaStar (Starcraft II bot) roundup
07 Jan 2019 New city, new job
10 Nov 2018 Mistaken machine translations of 'Trump'
01 Nov 2018 Mistaken machine translations of 'ribbit'
25 Oct 2018 Colons in computer-science paper titles
21 Jun 2018 Stamping copyright information onto academic papers
30 May 2018 Rapid game jams
03 Apr 2018 2018 NSF Graduate Research Fellowship award tallies
12 Feb 2017 Plain HTML with a few bureaucratic gestures
10 Jan 2017 Danish place names, translated by Google
13 Sep 2016 Weirdly broken wifi access points
05 May 2016 How difficult is the GVG-AI competition?
14 Mar 2016 Open-access CACM articles
20 Dec 2015 Search-oriented tools for Unix-style mail
04 Aug 2015 The 'Tapper' videogame patent
19 Feb 2015 Generative-space word clouds
31 Jul 2014 Clicking hyperlinks, a poem
23 Dec 2013 Who posts on Hacker News?
05 Sep 2013 What players think about narrative incoherence in anachronic games
28 Feb 2013 Google song-to-text?
11 Feb 2013 Where are the IGF 2013 finalists from?
26 Oct 2012 Capsule introduction to 3d wireframe rendering
11 Sep 2012 Bibliography: Encoding and generating videogame mechanics
14 Jul 2012 Smart terrain causality chains
21 Jun 2012 Voting with your feet, Condorcet edition
02 May 2012 Book review: 'Prince of Networks'
11 Mar 2012 Processing audio on the Atari VCS
07 Feb 2012 Word-unit palindromes
05 Jan 2012 Sicart's 'Against Procedurality'
21 Nov 2011 Cyano-view Copenhagen
12 Oct 2011 Game metrics without players
05 Oct 2011 Why isn't the economy more like hydraulics?
08 Sep 2011 Funsultants, gamification, and work as play
05 Sep 2011 Automated and assisted design
26 Aug 2011 Retention of early Slashdot users
14 Aug 2011 You might want a tolerance interval
09 Aug 2011 Soviet gamification
17 May 2011 Geographically densest Wikipedia coverage
21 Mar 2011 Anastas Mikoyan eats a taco
07 Mar 2011 The system has detected
15 Feb 2011 The convergence of notability and verifiability on Wikipedia
14 Dec 2010 Specters of tacology
14 Nov 2010 Not just argument and critique?
31 Aug 2010 Why did Prolog lose steam?
16 Aug 2010 NP-hard problems aren't always hard
09 Aug 2010 Design as the third discipline?
03 Dec 2009 Newsgame rhetorics
01 Apr 2008 Factoring game design
13 Jan 2008 Auto-skinning videogames
14 Dec 2006 Moral calculus in videogames
08 Dec 2006 Reflexive game rules
01 Dec 2006 The morality systems of Black and White and Fable
25 Oct 2006 The Categorical Imperator
21 Jun 2006 Emergent narrative in The Sims 2