This video shows two AI players battling it out for Tron supremacy as part of the Google AI Challenge.

If you’ve ever wanted to learn about game-AI programming you might want to look into this challenge. Bots can be written in C++, Java, Perl, Python, Ruby, Haskell, C#, Javascript, Go, Scheme, Lua and Clojure.

If you don’t know where to begin, you can try your hand at learning game-AI by playing Ruby Warrior, a roguelike that you play by implementing a Ruby class containing your player’s control logic.

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From Fish to Infinity

The first of a series of columns by Steven Strogatz on mathematics “from pre-school to grad school”.

“The goal is to give you a better feeling for what math is all about and why it’s so enthralling to those who get it.”

[via: dad]