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Programming Throwdown

Theoretical Artificial Intelligence

Programming Throwdown

Patrick Wheeler and Jason Gauci

Objective C, Tech News, Programming Languages, News, Education, How To, C, Python, Programming Throwdown, Java

4.5610 Ratings

🗓️ 31 May 2013

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Summary

This show covers Theoretical Artificial Intelligence, a deep dive into what AI is all about. Tools of the show: TypeScript and Ridiciulous Fishing. Books of the show: Dungeon (Paperback: http://amzn.to/11Iares) and Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (Kindle: http://amzn.to/117nNv3) (Hardcover: http://amzn.to/11IaEyj).

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0:00.0

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0:12.5

Programming Throwdown, episode 27, Artificial Intelligence Theory.

0:21.6

Take it away, Jason.

0:23.6

Okay, so we're back from vacation.

0:26.6

I'm pretty excited about that.

0:28.6

Yeah, we took a break, sorry, that was my fault.

0:31.6

No, it wasn't your fault.

0:32.6

Well, it wasn't really my fault.

0:34.6

It was the end of the season.

0:36.6

Oh, is it, oh, yes, okay. And now, oh, yes. Okay. We're starting a new season.

0:42.3

We're very excited though to be back. It works for TV shows, so why doesn't it work for us?

0:46.2

Yeah, I mean, they have to go celebrate on their private island that they bought in the Bahamas

0:51.0

with all their millions as actors. Just like we did. Yeah, that's exactly what we did. The show earned us our first million dollars, and so we took a couple weeks off. Yeah, right. Wait, that's not what happened to you? Wait, you made... Oh, I owe you your share. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I spent it all already. No, I'm Margaritas'm Margaritas well just have to do another 26

1:13.5

episodes yep yeah pretty exciting to do our 27th episode and yeah the first news article it's

1:20.7

pretty interesting I posted this on Gplus so some of you who are following the program

1:26.0

and they're on community got sort of a sneak peek on this article.

1:29.1

But yeah, I thought it was pretty funny. Basically an indie game company made a game dev tycoon,

1:36.0

which is sort of like one of these sim, you know, there's these like SimCity kind of games

1:41.0

where you have some complex adaptive system, so just some sort of system that's

1:46.5

running around and your job is to sort of tease apart these variables that you don't really know

1:52.2

like for example in SimCity you know there's like crime is created from residential zones and you put

1:58.4

police stations to reduce the crime but that takes money in space and so you have to make these trade-offs things like that and you start to I think you just sucked all the fun out of SimCity

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