Day: 24 November 2003
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Being Charlie Kaufman
Just watched Adaptation with Claire and Paul. Absolutely fantastic - a post-modern marvel. Put simply, it's an adaptation of a book entitled The Orchid Thief - a true story about the author, Susan Orlean (Meryl Streep), meeting John Laroche (Chris Cooper), a horticultural specialist who collects endangered orchids, set to the backdrop of Charlie Kaufman, …
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Artificial Intelligence For Dummies
I've just written an artificial intelligence gamebot, designed to pseudointelligently play simple board games which involve a finite upper number of moves and a board of tokens - for example: Connect Four, Noughts & Crosses, Go!, or Othello. It uses the (appropriately-written) rules of the game in order to pre-anticipate a vast number of moves, …
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Pretend You’re A Traffic Police Officer
...and one day, on your beat, you catch a guy driving the wrong way down a residential one-way street. Well; that's not very good, so you flag him down and investigate. Upon reaching the car, you discover that he is driving the wrong way down the road as a result of a lack of due …