It's not the information that useful but how you use them. I have no study to back me up but imo if you keep playing strategy games that tell you which thing is best than another and how one thing can be beaten, it can apply to anything in life when it comes to decisions, that's the lesson learned.
I think you've got the right idea. The 'facts' of what-counters-what don't matter too much; it's the feedback mechanism that matters. When you see Player 2 do X, you use that info to play the best Y. Good scouting decreases this feedback timing, and the player that iterates better will, given enough time, come out on top.
In SC2, there's a spectrum of usefulness to information. Finding a proxy pylon is hard, but screams intention. Scouting early double gas is easy, perhaps, but is more clouded. In chess, all the positions of the pieces are obvious (no concept of scouting), but all the information is clouded beneath layers of moves-after-moves. A very powerful attack can be hidden in plain sight.
In this more general context of iterative gathering & analyzing of information in pursuit of a victory condition, I can see how it applies. The fact that the general mechanism (however it works, exactly) can be exercised through a specific game is still intriguing.
as a hardcore gamer myself I have to disagree with you. I must play competitive style games like 6 hours a day for more than 10 years now, even though it's a "waste" I'm pretty sure that gaming helped me, and friends, for a long-term: We analyze stuff really quick and have a fast logical response also. In my case (I belive I'm the most hardcore of them all, playing stuff since I was 6), I'm the fastest learner of them all and I link it directly to my gaming life.
I know that it may sound I'm just justfying my addiction but I really like to learn new stuff and it helps a lot. I quit gaming earlier to read some book (currently reading thinking fast and slow) and in the early morning I keep reading interesting sites like HN articles :)
I'm reading HN while I should be working. I'm 22 but I'm unemployed :(
I quit Design School (one of the best in my country) because I really hate how universities work over here, even though it was free [1]. I learn really quick most tasks but the way people are teaching here is slow and really "opressive": you MUST attend to almost all classes otherwise you will automatically fail, you MUST learn stuff you won't even use EVER [2] and so on.
Even though I think that, I'm still attached to learn with a mentor - not a TEACHER - because I think it's the only way I can learn real world shit.
I really hope I can find something that pleases me now that my parents are kinda suffering a economic crisis.
1 - Federal or State Universes here in Brazil are free and most of them are called the best in the country, even though almost ALL lack something like good rooms and research equipment.
2 - There was a subject (I guess it's the right word) we had to study called Technical Drawing. It was like AutoCAD with hands: we had to use different sizes of pencils to draw houses, yes houses. I talked to people that was almost in the end of the course and they said "I've NEVER used this in my projects".
What can we do for translated versions? I'm not a dev but my father uses google calendar a lot because it's easy and intuitive but he knows nothing about english...
You would have to learn quite a bit. Pick a language that you know almost nothing about, preferably one whose alphabet you can't recognize without looking it up. Now use a website built in that language. Is this potentially an exaggeration? Yes. Is it still relevant? Yes.
Great project! I'm really curious about robotics/automation stuff and this is one of that awesome projects that show how it's really unlimited what you can do in that area
Hi John, is there any way you can provide subtitles (in english) on this talk? or a transcript? English is not my native language so it's kinda hard to understand everything you say
I'm not sure if this was a snarky reply or not, but you can get pretty cheap english translators on oDesk. Average price is $1/minute of translated material. The accuracy is usually superb, especially considering the price.
Strange. I think it's bleed over connotation from when you ask someone to do something and say something like "have you got that or shall I write it down for you?"
Something about the "write it down for you" is often used in a condescending way.
Yeah, I think this was it. Sorry jgrahamc, I wasn't trying to be insulting. It was just the phrasing with threw me off.
Something about the mix of "I'd listen to what I said" and "I'd write it down for you" just seemed like an unpleasant way to say "sorry I don't have time to transcribe it"
It reads like you're offering a personal transcription service, which would be an unusual thing to see in this context, so it's reasonable to interpret as sarcasm.
Its a variant of checkers. It will still be called checkers. That is why I did not bother explaining it. What would you expect when you go the URL of a game? Do you expect to start playing right away? Join and play with a friend? Or create a table and wait for someone to join? Something else?
ok i see. Well if the idea is play with others then creating a lobby with usernames/chat idea should be considered and a "play now" button leading the user to another screen showing hosted games (with host names).
A point system should also be considered like win: +5 points loose/forfeit: -3 points
Yep. I have the point system and play now button as well. I was not sure what the expectation of a typical user will be. IF he wants to wait or be impatient to play or just leave and never come back if made to wait for a couple of minutes.
