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Re: Game AI Pro

#11

Post by fxtentacle »

oliwarner wrote: post #10
fxtentacle wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That seems a bit rude to me, especially since they a) sell PDF ebooks and b) explicitly say that you are not supposed to re-upload the content elsewhere.

Why? They've made this all available, why is grabbing it all in increase your own convenience (eg offline reading, searching) rude ?

Because when you actually read it, you will download 1 article per 30 minutes. If you batch-download all of their content now, you'll create much more peak load and, hence, costs for them.

Re: Game AI Pro

#13

Post by bdickason »

Very cool. I always expect a link like this to either be some super basic examples (e.g. how to implement flocking) or articles detailing techniques used in games from ~20 years ago.

Very cool how recent and modern these are (along with super reputable authors)

Re: Game AI Pro

#14

Post by faitswulff »

fxtentacle wrote: post #11
oliwarner wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why? They've made this all available, why is grabbing it all in increase your own convenience (eg offline reading, searching) rude ?

Because when you actually read it, you will download 1 article per 30 minutes. If you batch-download all of their content now, you'll create much more peak load and, hence, costs for them.

On the other hand, if you download it all at once you aren't constantly reloading a page when you get back to it and you aren't limited to reading it when you're online. I do see the point you're making, though I think it depends on the author's perspective.

Re: Game AI Pro

#15

Post by stevehawk »

fxtentacle wrote: post #11
oliwarner wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why? They've made this all available, why is grabbing it all in increase your own convenience (eg offline reading, searching) rude ?

Because when you actually read it, you will download 1 article per 30 minutes. If you batch-download all of their content now, you'll create much more peak load and, hence, costs for them.

so he should seed a torrent instead of a wget command?

Re: Game AI Pro

#16

Post by lonelappde »

MAXPOOL wrote: post #5

I am just an NPC until I get coffee. For AI researcher Game AI is like porn. It's cheap tricks and obviously fake but oddly fascinating. Sometimes you find a new trick you want to try in real life. Marvin Minsky once said "I bet the human brain is a kludge." If I had to bet, I would say that human brain is full of dirty tricks, incomplete solutions, shortcuts and artificially limited problem spaces evolved to pick be…

The kludginess of brains is textbook neuroscience, from instincts to reflexes, to illusions and more.

Indeed, Game AI puts the "Game" first -- as it should for Games, but to the detriment of anyone who cares more about AI and wants Games to be a fun place to study AI.

If we split Game AI into "problem solving" (like pathfinding) and "opponent personality", then we can recover a lot of good AI that generalizes beyond games, without being misled by the parts that only useful for tricking people in a toy environment.

Re: Game AI Pro

#17

Post by spmealin »

What a cool and useful resource. Unfortunately, all of the pdf files are inaccessible to assistive technology (such as screen readers).

Re: Game AI Pro

#18

Post by freepor »

fxtentacle wrote: post #9
thebrain wrote: post #7

Download it all with wget -r -A.pdf http://www.gameaipro.com/ wget -r -A.zip http://www.gameaipro.com/

That seems a bit rude to me, especially since they a) sell PDF ebooks and b) explicitly say that you are not supposed to re-upload the content elsewhere.

wget does not re-upload the content elsewhere.

Re: Game AI Pro

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Post by oliwarner »

fxtentacle wrote: post #11
oliwarner wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why? They've made this all available, why is grabbing it all in increase your own convenience (eg offline reading, searching) rude ?

Because when you actually read it, you will download 1 article per 30 minutes. If you batch-download all of their content now, you'll create much more peak load and, hence, costs for them.

You can use --limit-rate=500k if you want to limit the bandwidth you're consuming.

And load does not translate to cost for everybody. If you saturate the connection to my VPS, I don't pay more, it just gets slower for everybody in contention. I can spin up mirrors but if I'm offering a free resource like this, I'd be more likely to limit the bandwidth-per-client-IP or just actively let it run slow. They could even limit the bandwith to the subdirectory with...

    location /download/ {
        limit_conn addr 1;
        limit_rate 50k;
    }

Re: Game AI Pro

#20

Post by NikolaeVarius »

fxtentacle wrote: post #9
thebrain wrote: post #7

Download it all with wget -r -A.pdf http://www.gameaipro.com/ wget -r -A.zip http://www.gameaipro.com/

That seems a bit rude to me, especially since they a) sell PDF ebooks and b) explicitly say that you are not supposed to re-upload the content elsewhere.

Where is this re upload you mention
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