From: Mark Watson Date: 2010-04-06T04:55:06+09:00 Subject: Re: new Ruby blog: RubyPlanet.net On Apr 3, 6:04 pm, Josh Cheek wrote: > [Note:  parts of this message were removed to make it a legal post.] > > On Sat, Apr 3, 2010 at 9:50 AM, Mark Watson 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. Hello Josh, My last book was not so much about AI as it is about information gathering and processing, with a view towards scaling web apps, using Hadoop, a bit about the semantic web, etc.