MIP RESEARCH
More ➜Military Intervention Project (MIP) The United States (US) ‘‘spends roughly as much on defense as the rest of the world put together…and remains the only country able to project military power globally. […] Link
studio notes 7-10-23
I added fire and death to the little rot.js roguelike game I am tinkering with. This is separate from Grotto but uses the same visual language. It’s a difficult proposition to try to integrate this with Grotto, as this is turn based and Grotto is a multiplayer database driven thing with no understanding of items or characters positions in a room. This feels like a new game so far and not an extension of grotto, although there could be some interactions between the two using Grotto’s API. What should it be? It could either be a totally new dungeon game or I could try doing some sort of zero player ant-hill arcology thing to go with Archon as I had originally imagined. Hmm.
Studio Notes 7-5-23
Two work notes-
I was able to use the Grotto API to make a bot player, hosted on Glitch, that has simple logic that has the player check the cleanliness level of the room it’s in once and hour, if it’s dirty it uses a scrub brush item, if it’s clean, it moves through an adjacent unlocked door.
I also had some moderate success using my tileset to build a small dungeon map using the roguelike javascript library rot.js. using a rat’s nest of conditional logic, it does sort-of-cellular-automata-style matching rules to draw walls and shadows around a floor map, in the style of Grotto rooms.
The Relationship Between AI and Architecture Is Old Enough to Receive Social Security, A Conversation with Molly Wright Steenson
Molly Wright Steenson (CMU) on ML and architecture […]
More ➜Blackstone completes Acquisition of Ancestry.com
More ➜New York, December 4, 2020 – Blackstone (NYSE:BX) today announced that private equity funds managed by Blackstone (“Blackstone”) have completed their previously announced acquisition of Ancestry® from Silver Lake, GIC, Spectrum Equity, Permira, and other equity holders for a total enterprise value of $4.7 billion. Current Ancestry investor GIC will continue to retain a significant minority stake in the company.
The super-rich 'preppers’ planning to save themselves from the apocalypse
More ➜As a humanist who writes about the impact of digital technology on our lives, I am often mistaken for a futurist. […]
studio notes 7-1-23
I have graduated and I am back in Austin. All of my stuff is still in a u-haul box on a long drive here from Los Angeles.
More ➜Voyager- An Open-Ended Embodied Agent with Large Language Models
More ➜We introduce Voyager, the first LLM-powered embodied lifelong learning agent in Minecraft that continuously explores the world, acquires diverse skills, and makes novel discoveries without human intervention. […]
