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TechZing 58 – David Fogel / Evolving A World-Class AI

Justin — Thu, 05 Aug 2010 02:24:18 +0000

Justin and Jason (along with guest host Sébastien Arnaud) interview David Fogel about his background in machine learning, his experience evolving the grandmaster level checkers playing algorithm Blondie 24, his thoughts on the applicability of various machine learning techniques, his ideas on how to develop a competitive AI for Swarm, his experience with Natural Selection, Inc., a company he co-founded with his father, and why he believes it’s important to work on things that interest you.

Techzing 51 – Sébastien Arnaud & The Swarm SG AI

Justin — Sun, 11 Jul 2010 01:02:19 +0000

Justin and Jason speak with Sebastian Arnaud about how to build an AI for Justin’s iPad game, Swarm SG.

Techzing 40 – AppIgnite Revealed

Justin — Sat, 17 Apr 2010 06:16:53 +0000

Justin and Jason discuss the re-branding of Tweetminer as Pluggio, how Justin learns from the show’s guests, the effectiveness of communicating with your users via email, whether or not Justin should raise funding for Pluggio, Jason’s secret project – AppIgnite, the mother of all demos, how Hacker News almost blew a gasket over the iPhone SDK 4.0 TOS, Strategy Letter V – commoditizing your complements, Justin’s new game – Swarm, and Jason’s idea for a massively multi-player, browser-based AI strategy game.

techZING! 10 – AI War

Justin — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 17:27:01 +0000

Justin and Jason talk with Christopher Park, founder of Arcen Games and developer of a space-based RTS game called AI War: Fleet Command, about how he was able to release a sophisticated computer game in under seven months and create a formidable artificial intelligence in only a matter of weeks. The discussion also covers the marketing of an independent game, cooperative game play, multi-threading, optimizing .NET, LINQ, GPUs, SlimDX and the future of artificial intelligence.