One of our Computists checked out Sony's Netyaroze development
package for PlayStation, and found the licensing restrictions
to be very unfavorable. You pay $750 for the right to use
(but not own) their modified [$149] PlayStation and software
tools, must give them any source code you develop, and can only
distribute your software on their members-only website.
They can take everything back if you don't participate actively,
and their own commitment to support this product is only
through Apr98. [05Aug97.]
3D-Games-L has absorbed the Voodoo3D games/hardware
discussion. Send a "subscribe 3dgames-l your name" message to
, or see the archives on .
[Yusry Harfuddin , NEW-LIST, 22Jul97.]
BLIND-DEV is about developing products for visually impaired
computer users. Send a "subscribe blind-dev your name" message to
. Archive and software available
at or . [Gregory J. Rosmaita , NEW-LIST,
06Jun97.]
The winner of a computer bridge tournament this summer --
at the American Contract Bridge League's Summer Nationals --
was a new version of Bridge Baron from Great Game Products.
It defeated four rivals. UMaryland helped develop
Bridge Baron's AI planning techniques for declarer play.
. [Dana Nau
, comp.ai.games, 08Aug97. David Joslin.]
(I've decided to leave NOSPAM gimmicks in email addresses,
at least if they're obvious. You can guess the correct address,
or get in touch with me for clarification.)
Ever tried to predict Heads/Tails choices? Any series
predictor with good performance must rely on some (usually
implicitly) assumed prior distribution of the data sequence.
If a sequence prediction algorithm does better than random on
a particular sequence, there exists another sequence on which
it will do worse than random (by the same margin). Also,
there is always an algorithm to generate sequences for which
the first algorithm is always wrong. For more on anti-predictable
sequences, see a new paper by Huaiyu Zhu and Wolfgang Kinzel,
at . [,
connectionists@, 04Aug97.]
BTW: Brian Murfin reports that the "LavaRand" Lava Lamp
random number generator site is .
[, 04Aug97.]
