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Ciro Santilli 37 Updated 2025-07-16

www.facebook.com/cumbridgepage/

The porn version of Crushbridge, died in 2020.

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DeepMind project by

Ciro Santilli 37 Updated 2025-07-16

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Epoch (deep learning) by

Ciro Santilli 37 Updated 2025-07-16

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Batch size (deep learning) by

Ciro Santilli 37 Updated 2025-07-16

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Anyon by

Ciro Santilli 37 Updated 2025-07-16

The name actually comes from "any". Amazing.

Can only exist in 2D surfaces, not 3D, where fermions and bosons are the only options.

All known anyons are quasiparticles.

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The Spiders' Web: Britain's Second Empire by

Ciro Santilli 37 Updated 2025-07-16

The Spider's Web: Britain's Second Empire

2017. Directed by Michael Oswald. Adam Curtis vibes.

Some notable points:

the role of the British Overseas Territories as tax havens
the role of the City of London in setting economic policy
the role of trusts

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Fighting game AI by

Ciro Santilli 37 Updated 2025-10-14

Bibliography:

www.reddit.com/r/Fighters/comments/1jftmti/why_does_ai_have_more_trouble_defeating_players/

AI in Melee is broken by Melee Moments (2023)

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Ciro Santilli 37 Updated 2025-07-16

github.com/battlecode

TODO quick summary of game rules? Perhaps: battlecode.org/assets/files/battlecode-guide-xsquare.pdf

Some mechanics:

inter agent communication
compute power is limited by limiting Java bytecode count execution per bot per cycle

Battlecode Final Tournament 2023

Introduction to Battlecode by MIT OpenCourseWare (2014)

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Regression Games by

Ciro Santilli 37 Updated 2025-07-16

www.regression.gg/

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Computer Olympiad by

Ciro Santilli 37 Updated 2025-07-16

Ah, shame, they are a bit weak.

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Game AI research lab by

Ciro Santilli 37 Updated 2025-07-16

The Quora question: www.quora.com/Are-there-any-PhD-programs-in-training-an-AI-system-to-play-computer-games-Like-the-work-DeepMind-do-combining-Reinforcement-Learning-with-Deep-Learning-so-the-AI-can-play-Atari-games

gameresearch.leiden.edu/

A good way to find labs is to go down the issues section of projects such as:

and then stalk them to see where they are doing their PhDs.

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Download a single directory with git by

Ciro Santilli 37 Updated 2025-07-16

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Git commit object by

Ciro Santilli 37 Updated 2025-07-16

stackoverflow.com/questions/22968856/what-is-the-file-format-of-a-git-commit-object-data-structure

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Serve Git over HTTP static website by

Ciro Santilli 37 Updated 2025-07-16

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Git tips / git rebase 101 by

Ciro Santilli 37 Updated 2025-07-16

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Git tips / gitk by

Ciro Santilli 37 Updated 2025-07-16

For the newbs.

Slick? No. But gitk does the job, like any one of the other 100 billion free Git UI viewers out there

gitk master HEAD

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cirosantilli/media/master/gitk.png

Many IDEs are also implementing this now (e.g. VS Code, Eclipse. Most free IDE GIt implementations are still crap, but that is the future, because you want to edit, view history, edit, view history, commit, edit.

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Git tips / git log --graph by

Ciro Santilli 37 Updated 2025-07-16

For the strong.

git log --abbrev-commit --decorate --graph --pretty=oneline master HEAD

Output:

* b4ec057 (master) 5
* 0b37c1b 4
| * fbfbfe8 (HEAD -> my-feature) 7
| * 7b0f59d 6
|/
* 661cfab 3
* 6d748a9 2
* c5f8a2c 1

If we also add the --simplify-by-decoration, which you very often want want on a real repository with many commits:

* b4ec057 (master) 5
| * fbfbfe8 (HEAD -> my-feature) 7
|/
* c5f8a2c 1

As we can see, this removes any commit that is neither:

under a branch or tag
at the intersection of too branches or tags

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Git tips / git rebase moves commits one by one by

Ciro Santilli 37 Updated 2025-07-16

In order to solve conflicts, you just have to understand what commit you are trying to move where.

E.g. if from:

5 master
|
4 7 my-feature HEAD
| |
3 6
|/
2
|
1

we do:

git rebase master

what happens step by step is first 6 is moved on top of 5:

6on5 HEAD
|
5 master
|
4                 7 my-feature
|                 |
3                 6
|                 |
2-----------------+
|
1

and then 7 is moved on top of the new 6:

7on5 HEAD
|
6on5
|
5 master
|
4                 7 my-feature
|                 |
3                 6
|                 |
2-----------------+
|
1

All good? so OK, let's move the my-feature to the new 7:

7on5 my-feature HEAD
|
6on5
|
5 master
|
4
|
3
|
2
|
1

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Git tips / The key to solve conflicts: see the two conflicting diffs by

Ciro Santilli 37 Updated 2025-07-16

The key to solve conflicts is:

You have to understand what are the two commits that touched a given line (one from master, one from features), and then combine them somehow.

Or in other words, at every rebase conflict we have something like:

master-commit    feature-commit
|                |
|                |
base-commit------+
|
|

Therefore there are 2 diffs that you have to understand and reconcile:

base-commit to master-commit
base-commit to feature-commit

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Git tips / Conflict resolution tool by

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