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Kelosophy: March 2015
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Scepticism, science, and the trivialities of life. What more could you want? Saturday, 28 March 2015. Game Review: Frozen Cortex. The rogue-like FTL: Faster Than Light. I'd get it right. I'd shield the doors earlier, or make sure to stock up on extra missiles, or avoid saving the crew of a ship on fire. Which brings me to Frozen Cortex. Is what you get when you cross American Football with Frozen Synapse. Already rocking up close to 30 hours of game time. The entire game consists of short matches, with e...
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Kelosophy: February 2014
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Scepticism, science, and the trivialities of life. What more could you want? Saturday, 1 February 2014. Adopting The Rational Stance. Are computer programmers under the illusion that humans are purely rational beings who have not understood the role of emotion in cognition? Any debate over ideas is an invitation to adopt the rational stance - to treat a problem as an object of rational thought, and assess the relative merits as if. It were put forward by a rational agent. The goal, normatively-speaki...
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Kelosophy: The Why of A*
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Scepticism, science, and the trivialities of life. What more could you want? Saturday, 22 November 2014. The Why of A*. For pathfinding, breadth-first search (BFS) is almost always preferable to depth-first search (DFS). The general problem of a breadth-first search is that it is resource-intensive. Depth-first follows a single path that grows as the path is explored. Breadth-first explores multiple paths at once, with the amount of paths growing exponentially. Is the total distance travelled, h. With th...
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Kelosophy: June 2013
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Scepticism, science, and the trivialities of life. What more could you want? Wednesday, 12 June 2013. The List So Far. To Kill A Mockingbird. Grave Of The Fireflies. The Godfather Part II. The Rules Of The Game. Labels: 2013 Film Challenge. What The Film Challenge Has Taught Me. Even being cognisant of my own ignorance, the task was too monumental. The film that tripped me up what Chaplin's alleged masterpiece City Lights. May be a historic achievement in filmmaking, but I'm at a loss to comprehend it.
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Kelosophy: March 2014
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Scepticism, science, and the trivialities of life. What more could you want? Friday, 21 March 2014. Review: God in the Age of Science? It is unfortunate that critiques of the utility of religion are taken as the reason for critiques on the truth of religion. It's not that God is a nonsense notion, it's that atheists have some psychological hatred of theism as it is practised. Herman Philipse's book completely focuses on the second category. This category is further narrowed by the distinction between...
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Kelosophy: June 2014
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Scepticism, science, and the trivialities of life. What more could you want? Wednesday, 25 June 2014. Amateurish Thoughts On Brazil 2014: Australia vs Spain. This was the kind of match I expected from the Socceroos before the tournament again, where nothing was particularly wrong with how they played, but that they were simply outclassed by a better team. Spain finally looked like the team that won the last world cup - strong in attack, resolute in defence. Thursday, 19 June 2014. The Socceroos looked li...
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Kelosophy: November 2014
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Scepticism, science, and the trivialities of life. What more could you want? Sunday, 23 November 2014. The How of A*. For the Why of A*, go here. Here is a basic implementation of A*. Note that this isn’t necessarily an optimal solution, but it is a working one. Here is Node.h:. GetAllAvailableDirections(); bool isOccupied(); void setOccupied(bool p occupied); void setParent(Node* p parent); Node* getParent(); double getG(); void setG(double p distanceTravelled); double getH(); void setH(double p heurist...
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Kelosophy: December 2014
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Scepticism, science, and the trivialities of life. What more could you want? Monday, 15 December 2014. Slipping Back into Old Habits. What I find so disappointing is I know all this. There's nothing particularly revelatory in that I dwell on problems instead of working around them, but it is disappointing that I still haven't moved on from the problems I had when I was at university learning to code. I get too hung up on solutions that I haven't learnt how to code around it. It's always, I think, going t...
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Kelosophy: May 2014
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Scepticism, science, and the trivialities of life. What more could you want? Friday, 16 May 2014. Two "Solutions" For The Same Predicament. The rationale, at least how it seems prima facie is this: When it comes to older workers, the problem is the free market discriminates unfairly. When it comes to younger workers, however, the problem is the youth themselves, who by the implication of the exercise are simply unwilling to do that it takes to have sustained employment. Whether it's the best of all possi...
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Kelosophy: April 2015
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Scepticism, science, and the trivialities of life. What more could you want? Wednesday, 15 April 2015. The Cult of Health. A few days ago, someone in my Facebook feed shared an article about how psychiatrists want to classify an obsession with health as a mental illness. The impropriety! How could it possibly be that wanting to be healthy be a disorder? Before I go into this, I need to take a few steps back. First, I read The Healthy Programmer. Are bars made of sesame seeds, condensed milk and honey?
