Last time, we built a naive minimax algorithm in Scala. While it was effective, it was unfortunately very slow. To increase the performance of the algorithm, we’ll implement a common variant of minimax with what is called “alpha-beta pruning”. Again,…
Implementing Minimax in Scala: Naive Minimax
Minimax is algorithm commonly used by AI in two-player games to determine the best possible move given a current state of the game. It gets its name from the intuitive concept that a player wants to minimize his opponent’s score…
Raspberry Pi Minimally Required Boot Files
I got a Raspberry Pi for Christmas so naturally I wanted to get started hacking on it right away. But the tutorials I found online assume you’re starting with an SD card with a kernel like NOOBS or Raspbian installed.…
NaNoGenMo 2014 Dev Diary #3: Results
NaNoGenMo is an idea created by Darius Kazemi to parody NaNoWriWo. Instead of writing a novel, developers write programs to generate 50k+ word “novels”. This series of posts will document my participation throughout the month. With the scaffolding in place…
NaNoGenMo 2014 Dev Diary #2: Setting up the template
NaNoGenMo is an idea created by Darius Kazemi to parody NaNoWriWo. Instead of writing a novel, developers write programs to generate 50k+ word “novels”. This series of posts will document my participation throughout the month. Having loaded sample data into…