Tuesday 6 March 2012

Beat The Texan - Interesting AI reading

I thought I would share some of the stuff I have been reading that has been helping me evolve better poker players.  These two papers have been good:

This paper discusses training an artificial neural network to model human behaviour:
http://spaz.ca/aaron/school/ (Accessed 19th February 2012) Davidson A (1999) Using Artificial Neural Networks to Model Opponents in Texas Hold'em

 This paper shows how to evolve a poker player by competing against a heuristic opponent:

http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.42.5380 (Accessed 19th February 2012) Barone L., While L. (1998) Evolving Computer Opponents to Play a Game of Simplified Poker

Sunday 4 March 2012

Desert Rat - Vehicles?

All good run and gun platformers need to have a series of quality vehicles with some high powerful weaponry mounted on them.

What about the Desert Rat riding on the back of this guy?

Lasers and machine guns at the ready :-)

(What is that? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montauk_Monster)