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Stæsj

Magne — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 23:43:02 +0000

Whipped up a small notes application like the one we used to have on our Palm pilots (memo pad?). All I needed was a quick way to write “eggs, milk, cheese and apples” and run to the store. My fingers are too fat for the Hero’s on screen keyboard to type fast.

I put in onto Gitorious.org, planning to release it under the Boost license, as it is one of the free’est I know of… compile it yourself or grab it from the Android market, it is currently in beta.

Leilighet til salgs

Magne — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 23:11:24 +0000

Så var vår kjære leilighet lagt ut på finn.no, så kjenner du noen som trenger leilighet i Oslo, så send dem linken under:

http://www.finn.no/finn/realestate/object?finnkode=20447011

Trenger et ekstra soverom…

Ønskeliste til jul

Magne — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 23:29:27 +0000

Ullundertøy
Lue (jeg fryser)
Håndstøvsuger
DAB/Internettradio til kjøkkenbenken
Single malt (helst noe med litt røyksmak)

MElephant Chess V 0.2 – update: 0.2.3 out, improving broken AI in 0.2.2

Magne — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 20:06:43 +0000

During playtime at work, I ported the Melephant chess Qt designer plugin (used in 0.1) to run on an ARM-based device, and a collegue played it, killing it in 15 moves. Since the processor was quite a bit slower than the intel CPUs I originally developed it for, the AI could only do 3 ply (look 3 moves ahead), which was the same as “novice” in v 0.1. Personally I suck at chess and occationally loose in novice mode …but it showed that it needed to be faster!

So I had to make 0.2, adding:

Code optimisations – profiling the code in valgrind resulted in several code optimisations, including rewriting the container for pieces on the board and caching the king position, as it is checked often, searching the array for it was actually a bottle neck.

Improved AI - To be honest, most time was spent on code optimisation, but the AI also got quiescence searching, implemented so we never stop searching on capturing moves. Iterative deepening was added to allow more efficient alpha beta pruning.

Also added an application icon that looks like crap that you can put on your desktop, and better piece selection so it works well with cursor keys. Another AI level was unlocked – “Easy Plus” – try to beat it … I can’t (but then again I suck at chess, maybe I’ll manage before 0.3).

Download the executable for Windows HERE: MElephant-0.2.3.zip.

If there is demand for it, I can upload a Linux/Mac version, after all I did develop it on Linux mostly.

Diskdigger redder dagen

Magne — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 09:59:41 +0000

Var på ferie i London hvor vi tok endel bilder, dessverre lånte en full dame kameraet og formatterte minnekortet. Søkte litt rundt på nettet og prøvde noen freeware-programmer for Vista (ja uff…), kom over dette kjekke programmet og det fikk ut alle bildene igjen! Helt gratis! Wohoo! Og her sitter vi i Hyde park:

Afternoon tea i Hyde park

Flaskevann

Magne — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 00:40:14 +0000

Endelig noen som har skjønt det … å kjøpe flaskevann for 20 kr flaska når man, i alle fall her i Norge, kan fylle flaska med like bra eller bedre vann fra springen er galskap! Slutt!

Protected: Magne og Heidi 30+30

Magne — Mon, 04 May 2009 22:04:24 +0000

Chess

Magne — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 23:21:52 +0000

Started writing an Chinese elephant chess game, ended up with a normal chess game, well, here is a snapshot of it: MElephant-0.1b.zip. It’s ofcourse in pre-beta, but seems quite stable while playing. Tell me what you think? I sometimes even have a problem beating it at easy, though it seems to be a bit eager to stalemate itself… I can probably make a mac and linux version too due to the use of the LGPLed Qt 4.5 for the tiny UI for it, and boost for the rest (including the written from scratch ai library and rules-library). It uses simple alpha-beta pruned minimax for the searching for now.

I will make it play Xiang qi aswell soon I think, it was designed to be able to do both.

Have fun

One step closer to holodeck

Magne — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 10:55:42 +0000

Slashdot today had a cool entry on real walking in virtual reality. Looks like an important component of the upcoming holodeck I’ll have in the basement of the house we might buy one day… they had hidden a video on the site (http://www.cyberwalk-project.org/):

http://www.cyberwalk-project.org/img/Media/CyberCarpet.mpg

More videos of the thing available here (warning site in Germlish):

http://www.amm.mw.tum.de/index.php?id=250

It’s just a shame it’s so big…

So what’s happening?

Magne — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 23:32:31 +0000

Apparently not much…

10 Writing code to pay for beer and unhealthy food

15 Eating unhealthy food and drinking beer

20 Going to the gym to get rid of the beer belly

30 sleep

40 GOTO 10

OK and that’s how exciting my life is… Today I am wondering if I should put the Honda up for sale, but after fixing everything that was annoying with it, it is a dream to drive, so now I don’t want to sell it anyway. After all, it’s made for summer driving, and it IS the James Bond-Honda

…James Bond lookalike Honda at least… and damn polular in Bollywood:

That one is actually a 100% copy of mine… Garam Masala rules.

So tomorrow it’s back to work again, polishing the next Opera Mobile release for Symbian, look for it in a Sony Ericsson smart phone soon! Oh and by the way I discovered Google Sketchup the other day, it’s great, I modeled my whole flat in it and re-planned the bedroom….

The bedroom as it is now

The bedroom as I plan it to be after 24000 NOK

OK that’s all, see ya :-)