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Uses for Machine Learning Agents 🤖

Clearly I’ve been on HuggingFace (🤗) lately. I wanted to share some of the thoughts I’ve had on the topic of applied machine learning (ML) based on some of my research. I’m trying to think up use cases for applied machine learning solutions. Inverted Problem Solving of Deep Reinforcement Learning Something I find fascinating with… Continue reading Uses for Machine Learning Agents 🤖

I Recommend: Steve Rabin’s Code Optimization DevDeck

As you may have gathered from some of my previous posts I enjoy learning about game development. Game Agent AI Programming, a specialized subject in game programming, led me to an an interesting person (and team) who seek to coalesce industry knowledge into a consumable series of books: the Game AI Pro series. Little did… Continue reading I Recommend: Steve Rabin’s Code Optimization DevDeck

Fine-tuned Pretrained AI Models Afford Futuristic Software Capabilities for Edge Apps

I believe one flavor of software that will become more common over time is software that uses (multiple) fine-tuned pretrained AI models as libraries to provide stochastic reasoning capabilities intended to be run on edge computing applications. I realized that was exactly what I was doing while recently building with MediaPipe and Unity, where the… Continue reading Fine-tuned Pretrained AI Models Afford Futuristic Software Capabilities for Edge Apps

Useful Enums for MediaPipe Hand and Pose Landmarker Model

I’ve been working with Google’s MediaPipe which is a augmented reality (AR) library that can be used on low power devices (such as a phone). Basically MediaPipe is a collection of pre-trained AI that lets a developer do some interesting things. You can use it for single images or video sources such as a webcam.… Continue reading Useful Enums for MediaPipe Hand and Pose Landmarker Model

Competitive Fighting Games as Framework of Game Combat System

It’s difficult to provide a generalized statement but I can say I observe there exists common things in the kinds of games that I typically want to make. I find they typically involve understanding character (and object) animations in terms of animation clip transitions and the vocabulary common to fighting games. More about my hypothesis… Continue reading Competitive Fighting Games as Framework of Game Combat System

ESP32 as a Robot Brain

Thanks to AliExpress I’ve been able to obtain more electronic components for cheap. Many moons ago I developed robotics. I 3D printed 4 legged robots, built circuits to support 8 9g servos, an arduino, and support a small lipo battery. In an unexpected turn of events, I actually flashed the arduinos to be able to… Continue reading ESP32 as a Robot Brain

Techniques to Mitigate GameLift Anywhere’s Odd Delays

AWS GameLift is a cool product allowing game developers (hobbyist or professional) to develop multiplayer projects. You provide the game server executable and GameLift will take care of hosting the server processes, to your specifications. They even have a collection of features called “GameLift Anywhere” that supports a local development. Say you want to test… Continue reading Techniques to Mitigate GameLift Anywhere’s Odd Delays

“Touch” as a guiding principle for Video Games

Good writing mostly follows the adage “show don’t tell” to help writers prioritize how they are conveying information. Perhaps video games should follow a “touch, don’t show” guiding light to help game developers convey experiences meaningful to the interactive medium.