I did some simple work with JSON getting the thinker saved and I should be able to reconstitute them at will. I will confirm this is working when I have something worth saving. I have a Python object that can read the five inputs from the map, run them through the matrices, and spit out …
Month: August 2019
Uncle Josh Revisits His Role-Playing Game
On April 1 2017 I published a very simple rule set for a role-playing game called “Scatological Utterance.” The original post was lost1 but is archived on my old LiveJournal2. I did not cover the topic of characters leveling up, as that seemed inimical to the idea of the game itself. Then today I was …
Uncle Josh Cracks His Knuckles on ML, Pt. 2
There is an often-misapplied quote from Donald Knuth about premature optimization being the root of all evil. The quote originally meant that developers were often looking at optimization in the wrong places in their code at the wrong point in the development process. I really thought that my ray-segment code was clunky and needed to …
Uncle Josh Cracks His Knuckles on ML, Pt. 1
I’ve had an on-off relationship with Machine Learning and Neural Nets. They fascinate me but they also look incredibly complicated and I’m busy and scatterbrained and can’t remember most of the calculus and linear algebra I learned so I went ahead and got started on a ML project that is a direct ripoff of Jabril’s …