MachineMachine /stream - tagged with play https://machinemachine.net/stream/feed en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss LifePress therourke@gmail.com <![CDATA[DeepMind AI creates algorithms that sort data faster than those built by people]]> https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-01883-4?error=cookies_not_supported&code=8a8cb2b7-276b-44ed-b1c7-a2ede118f720

You have full access to this article via your institution. An artificial intelligence (AI) system based on Google DeepMind’s AlphaZero AI created algorithms that, when translated into the standard programming language C++, can sort data up to three times as fast as human-generated versions.

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Mon, 10 Jul 2023 03:51:13 -0700 https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-01883-4?error=cookies_not_supported&code=8a8cb2b7-276b-44ed-b1c7-a2ede118f720
<![CDATA[Critical reviews/writing on Tears of the Kingdom]]> http://ask.metafilter.com/mefi/373245

So, we all love the latest Zelda game (Tears of the Kingdom - TOTK), and so do the critics. But now that we and the game journalists all have hundreds of hours of playtime under our belts, have any thoughtful, well written critical takes on Nintendo's latest masterpiece been written? I know at the beginning there were a few knee jerk reviews that tried to stand out. I am looking for well written, thoughtful, but ultimately critical takes on TOTK. People who have more to say than just gushing about Ultrahand. People who have perhaps done a thoughtful comparison with BOTW at a design level, and come out with some negative feedback on the game overall.

This is not because I don't like the game - far from it - but I would love to read some balanced analysis before I venture my own (potentially critical) takes on the game.

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Mon, 12 Jun 2023 06:21:08 -0700 http://ask.metafilter.com/mefi/373245
<![CDATA[Game Studies - A Practiced Practice: Speedrunning Through Space With de Certeau and Virilio]]> https://gamestudies.org/1401/articles/scullyblaker

This paper discusses the emergent gameplay practice known as speedrunning, or the process of completing a game as quickly as possible without the use of cheats or cheat devices, and its relation to games as narrative spaces.

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Thu, 20 Apr 2023 00:52:16 -0700 https://gamestudies.org/1401/articles/scullyblaker
<![CDATA[Man beats machine at Go in human victory over AI | Ars Technica]]> https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/02/man-beats-machine-at-go-in-human-victory-over-ai/

A human player has comprehensively defeated a top-ranked AI system at the board game Go, in a surprise reversal of the 2016 computer victory that was seen as a milestone in the rise of artificial intelligence.

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Tue, 18 Apr 2023 04:52:29 -0700 https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/02/man-beats-machine-at-go-in-human-victory-over-ai/
<![CDATA[Man beats machine at Go in human victory over AI | Ars Technica]]> https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/02/man-beats-machine-at-go-in-human-victory-over-ai/

A human player has comprehensively defeated a top-ranked AI system at the board game Go, in a surprise reversal of the 2016 computer victory that was seen as a milestone in the rise of artificial intelligence.

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Tue, 18 Apr 2023 00:52:29 -0700 https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/02/man-beats-machine-at-go-in-human-victory-over-ai/
<![CDATA[Lord Dunsany's chess variant is grim and kind of brilliant | Eurogamer.net]]> https://www.eurogamer.net/lord-dunsanys-chess-variant-is-grim-and-kind-of-brilliant

I first read about Lord Dunsany - I am happy to report his full name was Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett - in a collection of Arthur C. Clarke's non-fiction.

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Sat, 23 Jul 2022 03:51:35 -0700 https://www.eurogamer.net/lord-dunsanys-chess-variant-is-grim-and-kind-of-brilliant
<![CDATA[Lord Dunsany's chess variant is grim and kind of brilliant | Eurogamer.net]]> https://www.eurogamer.net/lord-dunsanys-chess-variant-is-grim-and-kind-of-brilliant

I first read about Lord Dunsany - I am happy to report his full name was Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett - in a collection of Arthur C. Clarke's non-fiction.

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Fri, 22 Jul 2022 23:51:35 -0700 https://www.eurogamer.net/lord-dunsanys-chess-variant-is-grim-and-kind-of-brilliant
<![CDATA[It's Possible to Run Doom on 16 Billion Crabs]]> https://gamerant.com/doom-16-billion-crabs/

Of the many beloved and influential franchises to come out of the medium of video games, Doom is a name that comes to mind for a lot of players.

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Thu, 25 Nov 2021 01:51:38 -0800 https://gamerant.com/doom-16-billion-crabs/
<![CDATA[Rats Play 'DOOM' Using VR-Like System - VRScout]]> https://vrscout.com/news/rats-play-doom-using-vr-like-system/

We’ve seen our fair share of bizarre VR experiments over the years, but this one might just take the cake.

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Thu, 25 Nov 2021 01:51:33 -0800 https://vrscout.com/news/rats-play-doom-using-vr-like-system/
<![CDATA[What is a game? | GamesIndustry.biz]]> https://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2021-05-14-what-is-a-game

What is a game? It's a debate that rears its bemusing head every now and then as developers push the boundaries of the medium, and this month it has been brought back to the fore by a group arguably less qualified to give a concrete definition: lawyers.

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Mon, 17 May 2021 23:55:14 -0700 https://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2021-05-14-what-is-a-game
<![CDATA[Not So Super, Mario.. I was 10 when Super Mario Galaxy came… | by Bobby | Sep, 2020 | Medium]]> https://medium.com/@bobby19/not-so-super-mario-c6fcc495b4ab

I was 10 when Super Mario Galaxy came out, and I’m 22 now on its rerelease. There was all sorts of confusion before it came out, about what really was the situation surrounding motion controls, which were described as both mandatory and optional by various outlets.

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Fri, 09 Oct 2020 00:13:52 -0700 https://medium.com/@bobby19/not-so-super-mario-c6fcc495b4ab
<![CDATA[Games blamed for moral decline and addiction throughout history]]> http://theconversation.com/games-blamed-for-moral-decline-and-addiction-throughout-history-123900

Video games are often blamed for unemployment, violence in society and addiction – including by partisan politicians raising moral concerns. Blaming video games for social or moral decline might feel like something new.

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Mon, 14 Oct 2019 09:31:10 -0700 http://theconversation.com/games-blamed-for-moral-decline-and-addiction-throughout-history-123900
<![CDATA[What’s the Point If We Can’t Have Fun?]]> https://thebaffler.com/salvos/whats-the-point-if-we-cant-have-fun

My friend June Thunderstorm and I once spent a half an hour sitting in a meadow by a mountain lake, watching an inchworm dangle from the top of a stalk of grass, twist about in every possible direction, and then leap to the next stalk and do the same thing.

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Mon, 19 Mar 2018 12:27:22 -0700 https://thebaffler.com/salvos/whats-the-point-if-we-cant-have-fun
<![CDATA[This Professor Has Documented 2,000 Soda Machines in Video Games - Waypoint]]> https://waypoint.vice.com/en_us/article/ywq9pm/soda-machines-videogames

In 2016, Marshall University professor Jason Morrissette was playing Batman: Arkham Knight. While sneaking around the shadows, Morrissette stumbled upon a soda machine. Like many games, Akrham Knight doesn’t feature any real-life soda products; that’d cost money.

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Tue, 13 Mar 2018 08:02:45 -0700 https://waypoint.vice.com/en_us/article/ywq9pm/soda-machines-videogames
<![CDATA[Bitcoin mania is hurting PC gamers by pushing up GPU prices - The Verge]]> https://www.theverge.com/2018/1/30/16949550/bitcoin-graphics-cards-pc-prices-surge

Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies like Ethereum, Ripple, and Litecoin have soared in value over the past year, thanks to continued interest from a range of investors.

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Tue, 30 Jan 2018 17:43:20 -0800 https://www.theverge.com/2018/1/30/16949550/bitcoin-graphics-cards-pc-prices-surge
<![CDATA[Video Games Are Better Without Stories - The Atlantic]]> https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2017/04/video-games-stories/524148/

Film, television, and literature all tell them better. So why are games still obsessed with narrative? A longstanding dream: Video games will evolve into interactive stories, like the ones that play out fictionally on the Star Trek Holodeck.

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Tue, 25 Apr 2017 08:01:28 -0700 https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2017/04/video-games-stories/524148/
<![CDATA[Humans Mourn Loss After Google Is Unmasked as China’s Go Master - WSJ]]> http://www.wsj.com/articles/ai-program-vanquishes-human-players-of-go-in-china-1483601561

BEIJING—A mysterious character named “Master” has swept through China, defeating many of the world’s top players in the ancient strategy game of Go. Master played with inhuman speed, barely pausing to think.

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Fri, 13 Jan 2017 05:50:51 -0800 http://www.wsj.com/articles/ai-program-vanquishes-human-players-of-go-in-china-1483601561
<![CDATA[Glitch art: Meet the artist who knitted Stuxnet into a scarf | Ars Technica UK]]> http://arstechnica.co.uk/gadgets/2016/12/glitch-art/

Glitch art resonates with the increasingly complex love-hate relationship humans have with technology. Errors, and by extension the changes, that can occur within software source code and data can provide a fertile foundation for the imagination.

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Wed, 21 Dec 2016 06:23:29 -0800 http://arstechnica.co.uk/gadgets/2016/12/glitch-art/
<![CDATA[The Minecraft Generation - NYTimes.com]]> http://mobile.nytimes.com/2016/04/17/magazine/the-minecraft-generation.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=second-column-region&region=top-news&WT.nav=top-news&_r=4&referer=

Jordan wanted to build an unpredictable trap. An 11-year-old in dark horn-­rimmed glasses, Jordan is a devotee of Minecraft, the computer game in which you make things out of virtual blocks, from dizzying towers to entire cities.

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Sun, 17 Apr 2016 06:02:38 -0700 http://mobile.nytimes.com/2016/04/17/magazine/the-minecraft-generation.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=second-column-region&region=top-news&WT.nav=top-news&_r=4&referer=
<![CDATA[Virus trading cards Deadly but beautiful - The trading cards...]]> http://tumblr.machinemachine.net/post/142837025889

Virus trading cards

Deadly but beautiful - The trading cards you probably don’t want to collect.

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Fri, 15 Apr 2016 01:50:26 -0700 http://tumblr.machinemachine.net/post/142837025889