KI für RPG's

Ich frage mich manchmal, ob ein Spieler und Liebhaber von Oldschool Rollenspielen
auch noch ein konsolen- und textbasiertes Spiel spielen würde.
Man könnte eine "KI" für so etwas trainieren, die einem dann Quests gibt und
die Atmosphäre macht.

2016-01-03

Joke of the Day

How many horses fit into a barn?
Depends on how many chippers you have!

2016-01-05

PolyMono in Retro

Wieder eine von meinen Retro-Ideen.
Es wäre recht einfach zu programmieren und auf fast jeder Plattform verfügbar.
Ein Monopoly-Klon in der Kommandozeile.

Ich hoffe, dass in Zukunft mehr hier kommt. Das Backend ist noch nicht ganz fertig...



2016-01-14

Freitag Ab18

Wer an einem schönen Freitag Abend, Nacht oder frühen Morgen Zeit und Lust hat auf erstklassige Unterhaltung,
der möge Gronkh's Twitch Channel besuchen.
Ich verfolge das ganze seit Monaten und es ist quasi ein MUSS für mich geworden,
nach der harten Woche mir den stundenlangen Stream anzugucken.
Manchmal schlafe ich auch vorher ein :-(
aber glücklicherweise speichert Twitch seine Streams.

2016-01-15

Self-Modifing Code

As I showered today, I had some ideas in my mind about code that can modify itself.

The first question that comes to my mind is:
1. What event should motivate the program to rewrite itself?
Should there be fixed intervals like, let's say, 1 minute?
Or only when a event/problem/exception occurs?
Or even something complex like a sleep pattern like humans?

2. What programming language should be used?
If you would use a language that needs to be compiled, the program would always need to carry the compiler with it.
If it shall be script language, there'll always need to be a interpreter.
But in the use case of machine code, there wouldn't be a need for anything.

3. How would it modify itself?
An artificial neural network, that will also train itself for such optimization?
A very intelligent algorithm?
Just a machine, that randomly replaces codeparts until it works?

If you came here to find answers I have to disappoint you.
Like you see in the menu, I'm a programmer, but this requires more preparation
and the company I work for doesn't work in that field of expertise.

If you have any good ideas or good sources to this topic, I'm happy to hear from you on Twitter.

2016-01-23

Whats up with the upcoming Battlefield 5

A next Battlefield game is inevitable!
But the rumours are cooking.
I think, that it won't be another modern warfare title.
It would be a pretty safe bet, but the factor, that probably kills it is,
that they invested a lot of work/time/money in BF4.
I mean, free DLC, free maintnance and the community test environment?
That's time consuming! They even added high server tick rate to it!
They could have used BF4 as a beta for BF5, but even IF, the setting would be different.
Many big Youtubers (channel not body size) have covered this topic.
I can recommend the videos by jackfrags!
So where could you fit the features into, that made the Battlefield series so popular?

  • Multiplayer Games with up to 64 Players (BF5 will probably have more)
  • Large maps good for longrange battles
  • Water, land and air vehicular combat
Battlefield Hardline showed us, that this won't work with a bankrobber/police theme.

Do you have any good ideas?
You know where to find me :-p

2016-01-23

The protection suit

Again one of my ideas, that came to me when I thought about working or just living under hard conditions.

This suit in particular is NOT meant for military conditions.
Imagine this:
You live in one of the big cities in the world.
Your job is to clean windows of skyscrapers, but you always have to wear a mask against the polution.
Of course it's not one of those comfortable models and it is in your way while working.
So you don't wear it always and that gave you a lung condition...

Or this one:
Working on an oil rig.
The mighty sea is not mercyfull with the whole construction.
Salty water, always wet and cold and swaying.

You might think, that future bullshit. It would take decades until such a suit.
Do you know the Masterchief from the Halo series?
Thats roughly how I image the suit.
It has to have a helmet for ether head-protection and/or air filtering.
The chest and back piece hold the batteries, because it will probably be a little heavy
so you'll need a little mechanical muscle support and the other systems also need some energy.
These pieces need to be customized to the conditions, but movability is mostly very important.
The legs probaly need to be a bit stiffer, because the must support the body and suit weight.
In the case of the oil rig there would be special joints to counter the rigs swaying.

One more scenario would be working in very cold conditions like repairing pipelines in alaska.
The whole suit could be sealed and have internal heating and body condition sensors.
Of course it'd need a lot of energy with limited working time, but in this case,
the suit could compute that time frame and show it in a heads-up display.
Nobody would need those big layered clothes anymore. A special neoprene suit
beneath the protection suit would do the job.

I estimate the development time with the right budget and people about 2 years for the first prototype.
5 years until the first suit could be bought!


2016-01-24

Protection Suit - Heat Version

If you think about protection, it doesn't always have to be against bullets or hits.
Heat is also a factor to be considered on construction sites or for travelling.

The basic idea would be to have a little space of, let's say, 5mm between the inner suit and the outer suit.

Inner Layer
The inner suit consists of a thin and breathable material like silk or artificial with similar attributes.

Hot Aisle
For a constant heat exchange the space between the 2 suits must be evenly spread and must not contain contact points to avoid friction. Friction leads to wounds and pain, so let's avoid that. To keep the space even there should be some kind of slightly flexible structure. Y- or double-Y-shaped maybe. But the Y-shaped space keeper needs to stick to something. In this case I would use a net of some kind, which touches, just touching, the inner suit.

Outer Layer
This Layer needs to consist of at least 3 sublayers.

  1. A basic, heat-isolating and replaceable material. Some kind of foam would do the job.
  2. The hard one. Against impacts. Carbon fiber composite material perhaps?
  3. Heat not only comes with hot particles (Brownian molecular motion), but also with infra-red photons.
    So just glue some mirrors on the outside? No. But what about many small mirrors, maybe hexagon-shaped?
    In sandy areas or if used on construction sites the mirrors would be blunt quite quickly.
    The mirrors glass could be very hard, like sapphire, but that would be expensive.
    So we just calculate the obsolescence and attach the mirrors with very thin but strong magnets.

Heat Extraction
The body produces heat and no isolation is perfect, so that hot air has to go somewhere.
To release or cool the hot air down the back of the wearer would be good place.
This is in my oppinion the best place to store a machine, that cools the hot air.
To accomplish this exchange there's a need for energy. You could get it from batteries stored in the suit (flat LiPo accumulators fit everywhere) or small solar panels placed on the suit. The problem with the good airflow and exchange within the suit is topic for another post.

Any further ideas? Message me on Twitter



2016-02-18

Create your Docker Minecraft container

Just download the textfile,
look through it for safety
and execute it as a bash script.



2016-04-12