Mark's Notes

This is Part III of porting Andrej Karpathy's microgpt to the data-parallel language Futhark.

This is Part II of porting Andrej Karpathy's microgpt to the data-parallel language Futhark.

I have been wanting to find a project to try out the data-parallel language Futhark.

I saw an exhibition by Shohei Fujimoto yesterday that I liked, at Artechouse Houston, titled Intangible Forms.

This demo repeatedly generates and autoplays levels for the dungeon crawler toy domain at the end of the the previous post, which was in turn adapted from Chapter 8 of our PCG textbook.

This is an updated, interactive web version of all but one of the answer-set programming (ASP) level-generation examples in Chapter 8 of our Procedural Content Generation textbook: Mark J.

A message I sent to my programming languages class for the start of the fall semester, on why I like teaching it: Welcome to Design & Organization of Programming Languages!

In class earlier today, I demoed prompting LLM base models.

I received an intriguing notification in the Microsoft Outlook 365 web interface: This message can't be saved because it no longer exists.

Photo: Luis Bartolomé Marcos, CC BY-SA Novelist and essayist Walter Kirn doesn't like ChatGPT.

In mid-2021, I was preparing the final version of a paper for publication in an IEEE proceedings volume.

Prompt: "a torrent of email" An AI advance I did not expect to happen as quickly as it did: open domain text-to-image synthesis sort of works now.

Operator precedence is a traditional feature of mathematical notation where, absent explicit parentheses, some operators bind tighter than others ("have higher precedence").

The job of a professor is traditionally split into three categories: research, teaching, and service.

Note: A version of this blog post is available as an interactive Jupyter Notebook hosted on Google Colab.

This is a bit late since some of the deadlines have already passed, but nonetheless, here are the deadlines I know of for 2021 editions of the conferences I track for my lists of institutions and researchers active in technical games research.

I had the following question: Given a number in $base^{exponent}$ format, like $3^{500}$ or $7^{300}$, is there a way to convert it to scientific notation without explicitly constructing the (possibly very large) number as an intermediate step?

This post is for American University students who are interested in me serving as faculty supervisor for an internship-for-credit.

A large urban–rural divide is a current feature of American politics.

A list of four-year universities in the United States who announced before August that their fall 2020 undergraduate classes will be taught all or almost all online, sorted by date of announcement.

During grad school in the late 2000s, I used to maintain a list of newsgames, i.e. games that commented in some kind of timely and usually editorial way on current events.

I'm recruiting a funded Masters student to study how AI bots play games.

Enter a search term in one of the following six languages, and we'll try to find an image for it using Wikidata, via two search methods.

A recent article on UK private bank C.

The UK-based Google subsidiary, DeepMind, which brought big news to the AI & games world in 2016 with its bot AlphaGo defeating a world-class Go player, says they've done it again with AlphaStar, a bot that beat a high-level human player in the real-time…

A few days ago I moved to Washington, DC, to start a new job as Assistant Professor in the Computer Science department of American University.

The name Trump is transliterated into Greek as Τραμπ.

If you try to translate 'ribbit' (the sound a frog makes in English), Google Translate will usually just leave it untranslated.

McGill University's txtLAB blog posted an article earlier this week plotting the proportion of academic papers in the field of literary studies that have a colon in the paper title, from 1950 to 2010.

When preparing conference proceedings in computer science, a common administrative task for the proceedings chair, after all the accepted papers have been collected, is to stamp some kind of copyright or venue information onto the first page of each paper.

What would game jams be like if they lasted 1–2 hours instead of 1–2 days?

The U.S.

My preference, since the late '90s, has been to write webpages as plain HTML in a text editor.

During the years I lived in Denmark, I often used Google Translate for news articles.

I've stayed in my share of accommodations with questionable internet setups and wifi failure modes—mainly B&Bs and AirBnBs equipped with consumer-level access points that don't really work.

Boulder Dash, a VGDL version of the 1984 computer game The General Video Game AI Competition (GVG-AI) is a recurring videogame-playing competition intended to stimulate progress in general videogame AI (as distinguished from AI written for a specific game)

The Communications of the ACM is, since 1958, the flagship magazine/journal of the Association for Computing Machinery, a professional society for computer scientists and computing professionals.

In a traditional Unix mail setup, users receive mail on a remote server, which they log into through a terminal to read.

Tapper I have had an occasional interest in the 1983 videogame Tapper.

Marco Scirea, a PhD student who Julian Togelius and I work with, built a generative-music system that is parameterized by two control axes.