Podcast – Making Computer Do Things: Recent Episodes

Podcast – Making Computer Do Things

Making computer beep boop, and beyond

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This episode is a very special one – few people know that kovarex actually one of the founders of the BWAPI project – and he agreed to have a talk about it, and of course, Factorio. This is a very …

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My guests were McRave, and Dave Churchill. We talked about the SCHNAIL platform, seal clubbing, metagaming, and joked about Canada of course. Also, how to rate bots on a human vs. AI ladder – a favorite topic of mine. We …

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My guests this week were Freakling and Ankmairdor. And as usual, we talked about maps a lot, delved quite deep into pathfinding. Also, a lot of SCHNAIL news! Freakling and Ankmairdor are amazingly technically talented people – I’m hoping to …

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This was an exclusive episode with Jasper Geurtz (Yegers). We talked about his journey into the bot development scene, developing a bot in Java, writing a library, and community engagement. Also, some SCHNAIL discussion was taking place.

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JBWAPI …

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My guests were Antiga and Freakling, and we continued with some awesome map design discussions. Freakling is a treasure trove of map knowledge, and we learned a lot about the topic.

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Hao Pan’s paper

Map: Flight path

Map: …

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A super long episode with Antiga, NiteKat, and our special guest, Freakling. The topic was of course everything about maps and map making. Also, some changes around SSCAIT casting. It was an exhaustive converstation, but we still had so many …

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My guests this week were Johan De Jong (BananaBrain), Nathan Roth(Antiga), and Hannes Bredberg. We talked about SSCAIT goings-on, Nepeta retiring, some SCHNAIL news, reaching out to other StarCraft communities, and some general silliness.

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AIST Tournament – with …

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My guests were Hao Pan, and Nathan Roth(Antiga). We talked about the upcoming tournaments, common problems in bot development, and possibilities about man vs. machine matches – and a lot of other things. Happy listening!

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My guests this week were Jasper Geurtz (Yegers), and Dave Churchill. Of course, the main topic was the AIIDE conference, and the StarCraft tournament there. We talked a bit about the “OMG WHY U NO SC 2” issue as well. …

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Extra long episode whoo! My guests this time were Johan de Jong (BananaBrain), and Jean Chassoul (sloth), with the late arrival of Dr. Bryan Weber. Our topics were this year’s CoG competition, the new Brood War bug (!), AIIDE, and …