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Database “sharding” came from Ultima Online? (2009)
Lessons Learned: Sharding for startups is a technical post about database scalability. What caught my eye was the term . What an odd term — “sharding.” Why would a database be described that way?
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The Lego Great Ball Contraption
The Great Ball Contraption is a class of machines built with Lego that transport small balls from place to place in many different ways. The otherwise pointless
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Railroad Tycoon II
Like a lot of boys, I grew up loving trains. And like a lot of men, I retain my fascination for them today.
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Every possible Wordle solution visualized
Every Wordle solution laid out at once. Filter all 2,309 by letter, position, and gray/yellow/green clues to narrow down today's answer.
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How Super Mario Bros. 3 was made
I picked up a children's picture book at the local library recently. Some of you might be thinking, "Why would you take out a Japanese picture book ? Are your Japanese language skills that atrophied?" Well, this happened to be a very special book, because it showed kids how Nintendo games are made, from start to…
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Windows game developer about porting to and using OS X
I've been a long-time player of Banished on Mac OSX via Crossover Office/Wine and Banished crashes so often I can no longer play it. I have an old Windows box but it can't handle the game's graphics; even with a newer graphics card.
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Ray Tracing in pure CMake
A simple ray tracer written in pure CMake
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Pac-Man recreated with a GAN trained on 50k game episodes
Bringing together the world’s brightest minds and the latest accelerated computing technology leads to powerful breakthroughs that help tackle some of the biggest research problems....
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Architecture of the Playstation 2
An in-depth analysis that explains how this console works internally
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I accidentally deleted a bad game revision from MAME
Awhile back, I had the chance to dump a game for MAME. I told myself that if the chance ever came up again, I’d contribute again. Luckily, it turns...
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2D Liquid Simulator with Cellular Automaton (2017)
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CRPG Book Released
Four years ago I began a journey. On Feb 5 2014 I posted the results of the RPG Codex’s Top 70 poll, in which we elected the best CRPGs of all time. But I felt that a simple list was too dry&…
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Scorched Earth: The Mother of All Games
We are now offering the complete Scorched Earth experience from a single downloadable zip file. The Totally Scorched zip file contains ready-to-run copies of every official version of Scorched Earth: 1.0, 1.1, 1.2 (English and Spanish), 1.5 and a .MTN file builder. The zip file also contains instructions and an HTML…
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Mastering Stratego
Game-playing artificial intelligence (AI) systems have advanced to a new frontier. Stratego, the classic board game that’s more complex than chess and Go, and craftier than poker, has now been mastered. Published in Science, we present DeepNash, an AI agent that learned the game from scratch to a human expert level by…
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Fun with Snapchat's Gender Swapping Filter
Snapchat's new gender-bending filter is a source of endless fun and laughs at parties. The results are very pleasing to look at. As someone ...
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How I wrote Game Programming Patterns
Update 2014/04/28: In case you missed the link, the web site for my book is gameprogrammingpatterns.com .
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High-Speed AI Drone Overtakes World-Champion Drone Racers
Remember when IBM’s Deep Blue won against Gary Kasparov at chess in 1996, or Google’s AlphaGo crushed the top champion Lee Sedol at Go, a much more complex game, in 2016? These competitions where machines prevailed over human champions are key milestones in the history of artificial intelligence. Now a group of…
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2006: Dwarf Fortress
The text of Dwarf Fortress and procedural tales so expansive no human could ever explore them all.
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I Resurrected “Ugly Sonic” with Stable Diffusion Textual Inversion
The true dystopia of AI is that it can make Ugly Sonic look cool.
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