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The game has an easy and hard AI. Easy is great for getting started, hard difficulty varies by the map. They are nearly impossible on a large map where you try to turtle in a corne…

This is so sad to read. Been a judge in this competition for many years, and it's such a wholesome celebration of excitement about technology. I really don't understand why this ne…

I use Jottacloud, which is quite similar in many respects.

LSH is a really neat algorithm, but to my understanding (at least what I’ve seen in literature), it also tends to be rather inefficient. For it to have good precision, you need lon…

The graphics community has started an interesting initiative at this end: http://www.replicabilitystamp.org/ After a paper has been accepted, authors can submit a repository contai…

I wrote a small booklet on modern OpenGL for the class I'm TA'ing: https://github.com/bartvbl/A-Hitchhikers-Guide-to-OpenGL

Whatever the case might be, companies have shown themselves to not handle people's personal data properly, as shown by the massive leaks in the past. Whatever utopia you're thinkin…

"Billy" is actually a play on the word "billig", meaning "cheap".

I wonder: the article states that the SI unit for Kg up to this point was defined using a single object. Doesn't this definition also involve the fact that it's placed on earth, th…

It's a fair point that the article makes. However, I've started out about 1.5 year ago with a programming group for kids in high school, and my choice was Python. I have since not …