Showing posts with label Game. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Game. Show all posts

2015/03/08

OSX Yosemite: Automatically restarts after showing screen saver a certain amount of time

It has been 3 days that my computer MacBook Air has been restarting without any warning while on the screen saver. Backup, anti-virus scan, copy, movie on the Apple TV stopping because the computer was "restarting". (Actually, it was login out
I finally figured it out after a couple research with my friend Google.

I had the same problem has described int this question:
OSX Mountain Lion: Automatically restarts after showing screen saver a certain amount of time

And it was the same solution:
http://support.apple.com/kb/PH4014

The only difference is that I know when I changed the setting. Lately I had problems with Steam, Borderland 2 and the Accessibility settings. The solution was to disable everything and add Steam back. So the Log out after X minutes of inactivity setting must have reset it self.

Today, I learned a bit more about OS X,
Happy learning.

2015/03/01

DeepMind VS Human

DeepMind Technologies has developed an IA the can play games using "eye-hands" coordination. He cannot beat the humains at SpaceInvader yet... But can beat a lot of people on other games.
This article is informative and very inspiring to me, since I like IA.



While reading this article, I thought about the 1985 movie called D.A.R.Y.L. (IMDB) In the movie, the android is playing a car game extremely fast.

In January 2014, Google bought that company. It's an other investment in artificial intelligence for Google. 

I'm sure the algorithms are able to do more then play games.

It does inspires me to learn more about AI. And how to code them.
DeepMind is hiring, they're based in London.

Happy learning!

2015/02/22

Bio-Shock

I just finish a 2007 game called BioShock.

The story is very good. You survive a plane crash in the water, and find a underwater city. And you take part in a fight between 2 factions in the city. The story doesn't let you choose your side, the story goes as you go for the "good" side.

The Wiki page, it's said that the game based on on the ideas of Objectivism as highlighted by Ayn Rand. With a small knowledge on the subject, I could summarized the game as the worst exemple that could happen if we would let our economy be managed by the objectivism philosophy. A bit like describe in the novel Atlas Shrugged.

So I just added the book in my "To Read" list. I'm curious about a novel that would have a story that would look like BioShock.

Happy learning...