insane.
Tag: games
GTA True Detective
Using DL to learn chess
Giraffe has taught itself to play chess by evaluating positions much more like humans and in an entirely different way to conventional chess engines. It is equivalent to FIDE International Master status, placing it within the top 2.2% of tournament chess players.
Kinesicmouse
this looks interesting. it’s nice to see a “trickle down effect” from gaming to general accessibility.
The head and face controlled computer mouse. The KinesicMouse uses the Microsoft Kinect for Windows 3D camera for face tracking. Place the camera anywhere in front of you and you are ready to go. No tracking aids like reflective stickers, caps or other head mounted devices are required.
YT olympics
With no specialist javelin coaches in Kenya, the then teenager turned to technology to see what Thorkildsen and other great champions such as Czech Jan Zelezny were doing. “I watched YouTube and it really paid off for me, to see the training techniques and skills they are using
besides all the time wasting & entertainment, there’s the occasional gem like this. he just won gold at the world championship.
Selfdriving advantage
Error-Prone is cute little game of chaos and carnage made for 26 people to play around 1 keyboard. The end result illustrates perfectly how self driving cars are vastly superior to their human counterparts in terms of traffic grid lock, efficiency and avoiding road accidents. A screen shows 26 autonomous cars driving in a loop—one for each letter of the alphabet. Up to that many humans can take control of the cars by pressing the corresponding letter. But doing so is the first step in the inevitable path toward traffic flow inefficiency, at best, and a massive pileup, at worst.
Superhuman pictionary
Sketch-a-Net achieved 74.9% recognition versus 73.1% for humans
2021 Cutscenes
i don’t do games, but this is pretty stunning.
Faker
Faker, the unkillable demon king
in a sequence so abrupt I had to pause and rewatch the clip several times, Faker evolved into cougar form, leaped under the tower and executed Ambition. Before the crowd could react, he sprang away. The camera quickly panned to Summoner’s Rift, where 2 CJ players squared off against a pair of SK Telecom champions. Faker suddenly came into view. Still in cougar mode, he jumped into the fray and slew 1 of the CJ players. When the other tried to run away, Faker changed back into human form, hurling a spear that killed his fleeing enemy. In less than 40 seconds, he had assassinated more than 50% of the team
Best female climber
that’s an insane level of skill. this is the hardest climb any woman has ever done. at 5.15a, there is only 1 grade that is harder which was only sent in 2008 by Chris Sharma: Jumbo Love