So here's a fun but useless trick: mimicking Pokemon Go's battery saver mode on the web. For the few who missed the craze, Pokemon Go dims your phone's screen when you turn it upside-down. With the game being something of a battery hog, this can save you precious charge as you walk from one PokeStop| Thomas Park | On web development, interface design, user research, and all th...
In a new paper from DeepMind, this time co-written by 14th world chess champion Vladimir Kramnik, the self-learning chess engine AlphaZero is used to explore the design of different variants of the game of chess, with different sets of rules. The paper is titled Assessing Game Balance with AlphaZero:| Chess.com
The Obsession My family gets competitive with card games. Our latest obsession is Dutch Blitz, a fast-paced game that seems somewhat regional due to the Pennsylvania Dutch influence. To give you an idea of just how seriously we take it, we have a spreadsheet to keep score and maintain lifetime stats. Feel free to fork| Thomas Park | On web development, interface design, user research, and all th...
Groups of animals get special collective nouns[1. A longer list of animal collective nouns can be found here.], some of which are familiar (e.g., a pride of lions, a gaggle of geese) and others that are less known but equally evocative: a crash of rhinos, a charm of hummingbirds, a prickle of porcupines, a loveliness| Thomas Park