Joseph Huang aka bftjoe posted the 1000th published blog comment. (The number of rejected spam comments is much higher, unfortunately. So far I have rejected only 1 non-spam comment for content.) This blog entry is the 314th, so it averages a little more than 3 comments per entry.
Community successfully engaged!
Yesterday’s post was the 256th blog entry, which makes it an important anniversary. How many blogs make it to 2^8 posts in hardly more than a year?
The first post was on 2016 March 4. In May I made only a few posts while I worked on the blog software, but even including the gap, I have posted on more days than not. As I write, the blog has 747 published comments.
A success! And my it be useful for BWAPI coders everywhere.
What do y’all think I should write about?
I don’t have any shortage of material. I have 3 posts in my reserve, already written and pretty much ready to go, plus a to-do list of ideas, including a couple that I’m eager to get to.
But I think it’s time to pause and see what everybody else wants. I’ve been running down my own road, and maybe you think there are other cool avenues.
Is there a burning topic I’ve ignored? An idea I’ve mentioned that I should go into more detail about? Is there something in AI that you don’t know how to get started with? I may not know how either, but I can find out. Maybe a deep dig into this, or a wide survey over that? What do you say?
Post a comment or drop me e-mail. I’ll give feedback a few days to accumulate before I go once more into the breech.
robots.txt. (I have on the order of 10K pages, so it’s a distinction.) Finally, more people want to know about robots than robots about people!
For now, comments are allowed throughout, even on the oldest posts. After the first comment was spam (to no one’s surprise, I’m sure), I turned on moderation: Subscribers should see no junk, but comments may be delayed while I approve them.
If you don’t want to post a comment, you can e-mail me directly.
Upgrade complete! That sure took a long time (I had insufficient vespine gas).
As promised, there is an RSS feed. Online services can turn the feed into e-mail notifications, if that’s what you prefer. Plus other new features. I’ll be working behind the scenes to clean up details and add categories.
Regular Brood War posting mania returns tomorrow.
It’s time to get down to serious work on the blog software. You people deserve at least an RSS feed. The software I picked fits into a plan for my whole website and will take time to set up, so I expect to post less often here until it’s ready. Stand by!
Ever since writing about Starcraft for Machine Learning in Games, I find myself unable to turn away. I have so much to say about Starcraft AI and Starcraft bots that I decided to post my thoughts blog-style over time.
I’ll figure out later how to get comments and other blog niceties. In the meantime, contact me by e-mail if you like: jay@satirist.org.