Gemini* and Gopher

• Personal/Opinions

  • library escape room

    I spent my afternoon planning an escape room in the library.

    Admin has decided to offer reward days to students who have zero tardies and zero unexcused absences within a marking period. Students can choose whether to watch a movie in the auditorium, head to open gym, or come to the library escape room.

    Clearly I'm not going to beat out "open gym" for some of these kids, but I can beat a Disney movie, c'mon.

• Technology and Free Software

  • Dig Digg

    Mr. Rose apparently neglected to mention that LLM suck at translation where the corpus is tiny, the first "L" in LLM being somewhat relevant here, as well as the paucity of Klingon texts. Same story for lojban or esoteric Buddhist writings, sort of like trying to run AA for a World War II battleship with only a shoebox of ammo. Perhaps Digg intends to harness the power of enraged trekkies when the AI bodges the Klingon? Star Trek, that's the one with the wookies.

  • 85% Project Failure

    Some people say, "85% of projects fail", which is not quite right. It's 87.3% of projects that fail, which makes it interesting because 78.2% of projects succeed and at least 33% of projects don't even exist. To put it in perspective, there's significant statistical information to support any claim one may have, as long as there's a will to repeat anything that seems to support the claim.

  • Building the CPU Player for StarGrid

    For my game StarGrid, I need to add some CPU opponents (note that I'm avoiding using any AI related wording here, since this gets a different connotation nowadays).

    The game is divided into multiple factions, each faction have their own ships and one homebase.