Jay Scott

My personal website. I expect it’s bigger than you expect it is.

“The right answer to any policy question in economics is, ‘It depends.’”
— Dani Rodrik (old quotes)

My name is common; if you need to disambiguate, use Jay J.P. Scott.

self portrait, January 2000 ME

my big stuff

The Daily Whale Serious satire for thinking beings, made fresh daily. 9 April 2023: socially constructed

Poems My collected poems. Latest: Reality Star Adultery, added 2 January 2022.

Revolutionary Girl Utena analysis As I try to figure out the dense, complex, original, disturbing, and classic 1997 anime. Last new article 12 March 2023

Starcraft Brood War AI blog BWAPI bots playing a game in which humans remain far superior. New posts on more days than not. My own bot is Steamhammer, which plays zerg.

my little stuff

Planet Wars 2010 and followup My entry in the 2010 game AI contest, with post mortem and newer bots I wrote afterward.

Machine Learning in Games A resource for artificial intelligence researchers and game programmers. Long out of date, but of historical interest.

Albuquerque on Earth A science fiction book in progress. Last update 23 April 2016

Authorial Intent A poetry-writing program unlike any other.

Ouxu A fun artificial language of my design.

Lojban A sophisticated artificial language (designed by many).

infrared photographs Five IR photos. Maybe someday I’ll get around to showing off my ordinary pictures too.

SWAPA Extracts SWAPA is a place I write stuff. Here are many pages of stuff I’ve written on random topics. Last update August 2021

Markybot Will extraterrestrial life be proved to exist? Nobody knows, but the Foresight Exchange “idea futures” market has some insight. I wrote Markybot, an autonomous FX trading robot, which competes against human traders for profits. Its trading model is out of date, and lately it has been slowly losing money.

silly terms of service Terms of service agreements are often silly. I’ve collected a few examples.

Jay Scott <jay@satirist.org>
Terms of Service
this page last updated 18 December 2022