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[thedarkproject]

Hmm, so little to report since last time. But how did it come to be March already? I'm supposed to be getting stuff done this year, but yet again it's not really happening.

I 'accidentally' ordered another book yesterday, namely "Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach", because it's supposedly quite a definitive textbook and I don't already own it. Buying it probably wasn't all that useful a move however, considering I have a backlog of about 30 books to get through. Anyway, It would be nice to get into proper AI at some point, after a couple of years of straightforward application programming.

And I still haven't finished Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory. I should give that another go tonight, so I can get back to Oblivion, Thief 3, and maybe make a start on Planescape. On that note, everyone should play more RPGs, in honour of Gary Gygax who died today. It's fair to say that he has indirectly had a massive effect on my life in several ways. (Here are some possible examples.)

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[d-m.livejournal.com]

// excitingly, i have that exact same book from
// an ai course in college. it's not bad, but
// unless you consider rule-based state-transformations
// a la prolog to be "modern" a better title might
// have been "ai: the same old approach."

// rip gygax.

[thedarkproject]

Yeah, one of the Amazon reviews said it was a bit out-dated, and someone else mentioned that it was heavily biased towards using first-order logic for most things. Still, I don't have anything covering the basics, and I seem to recall it covers the different types of searches and so on. I have plenty of university stuff on neural nets, genetic algorithms, fuzzy logic, etc.