From: Josh Cheek <josh.cheek@...>
Date: 2010-04-04T10:04:55+09:00
Subject: Re: new Ruby blog: RubyPlanet.net

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On Sat, Apr 3, 2010 at 9:50 AM, Mark Watson <mark.watson@gmail.com> wrote:

> I am the author of one Ruby book (for Apress) and I use Ruby a lot in
> my work. I decided to create a separate blog just for my new writing
> on Ruby. Hopefully you will enjoy it :-)
>
>
Thanks, Mark, I'll check it out :)

I'm working on an AI project right now, actually, for one of my school
courses. I just got back from a BBQ with some of my classmates where we
fought our AI against eachother. Mine went 4-1, I was just sitting down to
implement alpha-beta, and I might possibly try out congruence classes if I
have time (iffy). Then test my weightings for the heuristic to see which
offer the best results (probably going to write a script to fight several
different versions of the robot against eachother and see which weights win
most often).

I have the Manning book "Algorithms of the Intelligent Web" but it's for
Java (which I actually respect more, after this AI project, since the
algorithm portion of the project is implemented in Java -- the interface is
Sinatra). "Scripting Intelligence" looks like it addresses a lot of similar
topics from a Ruby perspective, should I check it out? (or is it a tautology
to ask an author if you should check out their book? ;)

Anyway, thanks for the heads up, I'll add RubyPlanet to my RSS.

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