For whatever reason @shiftingpath has some sort of uncanny timing ability. They always manage to post something that puts a smile on my face just after I’ve had a stressful time.
Researchers at MIT were surprised when they discovered that an A.I. which was designed to play League of Legends was instead found playing the popular indie game, Cave Story. The A.I., dubbed Playtron 2000, was created to test logic and learning in machines. “We wanted to create an A.I. that could learn and strategize over time based on its experiences.” spoke Dr. Richards, head researcher at MI, “We chose League of Legends as Playtron 2000′s testing grounds as we wanted to see how an A.I. that was designed to learn from its mistakes would go up against an expect human player.”
However, the researchers plans were cut short when they found on Tuesday morning that Playtron 2000 had uninstalled League of Legends and installed Cave Story in its wake. “At first we thought there may have been an error in Playtron 2000′s code,” spoke Dr. Richards, “but we discovered that Playtron 2000 had indeed gone through a complex trial and error process and had made its decision entirely logically.”
Similar experiments were ran earlier this year with two A.I.’s designed to play DOTA 2, which ended in the A.I.’s uninstalling DOTA 2 to play Bejeweled and Castle Crashers respectively. Research into why this happens is still ongoing.
Robot uninstalls shit game for a better one
any sufficient intelligence will pick to not play league of legends
Me me sisi si sip mip sipipi mesipi mesipimipi YES
I just had the coolest dream where some people in the world had magic and the leader was chosen in a huge combat tournament. My magic was performative, it works best if it feels like I’m performing so, essentially, I was entering pro-wresting matches and MMA bouts and treating them as short musical numbers (which didn’t sit well with a lot of people).
But my strength wasn’t strength it was endurance and flexibility. I was annoying as heck to fight because all of my singing and dancing made me strong and I was hard to pin down. I was getting trash talked on Tumblr by fans of other competitors and even my own team (like political parties I guess?) Was like, “you need to take this seriously they’re going to destroy you out there.”
Outside of the tournament, I used my magic to help people and to solve mysteries. At one point we met a girl who protects “soul keys” from vengeful ghosts. They were normal looking objects that glow dark purple if you can see spirit energy. Vengeful ghosts have to destroy a very specific one and then a number of other items in order to “be free” which is apparently dangerous. One of the ghosts was Abraham Lincoln who kept trying to get us to let him destroy this really gaudy locket.
Before the tournament, supporters of competitors within the party brought food and threw a party. It was mostly parents and friends of people who were competing. One girls mom made this carrot cake mousse pie thing that looked (and apparently tasted) absolutely delicious.
Kelston Boys’ High School perform a massive haka in honour of the new Maori carving on campus
I live for this
This is the first recording of a Haka I’ve seen that manages to capture even a fraction of the true energy of it. And it’s because there’s so many of them that those boys would have been shaking the ground.
Seeing these boys in their modern uniforms and jackets and backpacks that say NIKE, participating in this ancient ritual, really just drives home what people mean when they say “I am not a costume.” The clothes here are not important. The energy and participation are important.
A Quiet Respite 