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bufordsharkley on May 12, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: Show HN: Recurrent neural net plays 'neural slime ...

Very interesting-- slime volleyball was quite the thing back in my high school days. (See it here if you can get the Java applets to run in 2015 [1])

I was surprised to see a few months ago that the version we played back in high school had the AI programmed by Chris Coyne (of SparkNotes, OKCupid, and now Keybase). I'm curious what was behind the AI in 2004, and furthermore, impressed by Chris Coyne's seeming ubiquity...

1: http://slimegames.eu

hiharryhere on May 12, 2015 [–]

Massive blast from the past. Slime games were awesome. I spend a ton of time in the highschool library playing volleyball. I think they guy behind the AI in the one I played was an aussie guy called Daniel Wedge. We used to play on his University provided page. Slime Cricket was great too

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