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i love the game of ice hockey! i played it for 10 years. But i really dislike the business of the NHL: B*ttman, the fighting (ban fighting and contact in general), the officiating; call all the penalties i don't care if that means special teams all night!

Tonight's #baseball game is Charlotte Knights vs Gwinnett Stripers. Hot dog acquired.
#MiLB
#CLTvGWN

Who Plays First? Optimizing the Order of Play in Stackelberg Games with Many Robots
Haimin Hu, Gabriele Dragotto, Zixu Zhang, Kaiqu Liang, Bartolomeo Stellato, Jaime F. Fisac
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.09246

Who Plays First? Optimizing the Order of Play in Stackelberg Games with Many Robots
We consider the multi-agent spatial navigation problem of computing the socially optimal order of play, i.e., the sequence in which the agents commit to their decisions, and its associated equilibrium in an N-player Stackelberg trajectory game. We model this problem as a mixed-integer optimization problem over the space of all possible Stackelberg games associated with the order of play's permutations. To solve the problem, we introduce Branch and Play (B&P), an efficient and exact algorithm th…

i love the game of ice hockey! i played it for 10 years. But i really dislike the business of the NHL: B*ttman, the fighting (ban fighting and contact in general), the officiating; call all the penalties i don't care if that means special teams all night!

Did you know NASA published a free table top RPG called "The Lost Universe"?
"A dark mystery has settled over the city of Aldastron on the rogue planet of Exlaris. Researchers dedicated to studying the cosmos have disappeared, and the Hubble Space Telescope has vanished from Earth’s timeline. Only an ambitious crew of adventurers can uncover what was lost. Are you up to the challenge?"

The Lost Universe - NASA Science
Download NASA's tabletop role-playing game adventure, The Lost Universe.

I got "The Gunk" at some point as part of a bundle in the past - gave it a spin tonight on #SteamDeck - great googly moogly is this game a.) a MOOD and b.) bloody gorgeous
Can't believe I've let it sit so long in my #Steam backlog
Can definitely recommend!

The Gunk on Steam
The Gunk is an action-adventure game in which you play as Rani, part of our duo of gritty space haulers. As they’re struggling to bring in funds, they chance upon an untouched planet brimming with life. They came in search of valuable resources, and it looks like they’ve hit the jackpot…

#Hardle 🟦🟪 #757 4/8
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https://hardle.herokuapp.com

A cold and blustery day for tonight's game.
#Stripers
#baseball
#MiLB

Some Winnability Results for the Neighborhood and Group Labeling Lights Out Games
Brittany Doherty, Christian J. Miller, Darren B. Parker
https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.02202

Some Winnability Results for the Neighborhood and Group Labeling Lights Out Games
We look at both the \emph{group labeling lights out game} and the \emph{neighborhood lights out game}. Our main focus is to determine necessary and sufficient conditions for when the group labeling lights out game on path graphs, cycle graphs, and complete bipartite graphs can be won for every possible initial labeling. In the process of solving this problem, we demonstrate a new proof for when the neighborhood lights out game on complete bipartite graphs can be won for every possible initial l…

#Project2025 an
‘Openly authoritarian campaign’:
Donald B. Ayer, the deputy attorney general under George H. W. Bush, said:
"Project 2025 seems to be full of a whole array of ideas that are designed to let Donald Trump function as a dictator, by completely eviscerating many of the restraints built into our system.
He really wants to destroy any notion of a rule of law in thi…

Lookahead Games and Efficient Determinisation of History-Deterministic B\"uchi Automata
Rohan Acharya, Marcin Jurdzi\'nski, Aditya Prakash
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.17530

Lookahead Games and Efficient Determinisation of History-Deterministic Büchi Automata
Our main technical contribution is a polynomial-time determinisation procedure for history-deterministic Büchi automata, which settles an open question of Kuperberg and Skrzypczak, 2015. A key conceptual contribution is the lookahead game, which is a variant of Bagnol and Kuperberg's token game, in which Adam is given a fixed lookahead. We prove that the lookahead game is equivalent to the 1-token game. This allows us to show that the 1-token game characterises history-determinism for semantic…

After an interminable absence, baseball is back. First home #Stripers game of the season! Hot dog acquired.
#MiLB
#baseball

After an interminable absence, baseball is back. First home #Stripers game of the season! Hot dog acquired.
#MiLB
#baseball

The Correlations of Scene Complexity, Workload, Presence, and Cybersickness in a Task-Based VR Game
Mohammadamin Sanaei, Stephen B. Gilbert, Nikoo Javadpour, Hila Sabouni, Michael C. Dorneich, Jonathan W. Kelly
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.19019

The Correlations of Scene Complexity, Workload, Presence, and Cybersickness in a Task-Based VR Game
This investigation examined the relationships among scene complexity, workload, presence, and cybersickness in virtual reality (VR) environments. Numerous factors can influence the overall VR experience, and existing research on this matter is not yet conclusive, warranting further investigation. In this between-subjects experimental setup, 44 participants engaged in the Pendulum Chair game, with half exposed to a simple scene with lower optic flow and lower familiarity, and the remaining half …

I'm at a conference today up in Boston. Great content, but they do this speed dating thing with the vendors. Instead of walking up to their booth, you rotate around the room and get a pitch.
My favorite game to play is "stump the sales engineer". I got one today that was perfect. I said "if I have control A, B, and C, why do I need your product?" SE kinda looked up to collect his thoughts, then smiled and replied, "yeah well I guess not."
Great to win "stump the SE", but even better when the SE admits it and shakes your hand. I will definitely be buying him a drink tonight.

ich wurde dazu verdonnert ein jour fixe zu organisieren und dafür ein meeting format zu konzipieren ohne anleitung was da passieren soll oder warum
öffentlicher dienst game wäre es, das a) einfach nicht zu machen oder es b) half assed zu machen
ich werde es stattdessen vollkommen over-engineeren damit mir niemand vorwerfen kann ich hätte nicht oder schlecht gearbeitet aber auch niemand mehr will dass ich sowas nochmal machr
es wird u.a. fishbowl diskussionen geben (was auch…

Today is my 700th #Wordle game played.
Sometimes I do find myself doing this but not today.
Wordle 995 5/6
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The Maker-Breaker percolation game on a random board
Vojt\v{e}ch Dvo\v{r}\'ak, Adva Mond, Victor Souza
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.17547 https://…

The Maker-Breaker percolation game on a random board
The $(m,b)$ Maker-Breaker percolation game on $(\mathbb{Z}^2)_p$, introduced by Day and Falgas-Ravry, is played in the following way. Before the game starts, each edge of $\mathbb{Z}^2$ is removed independently with probability $1-p$. After that, Maker chooses a vertex $v_0$ to protect. Then, in each round Maker and Breaker claim respectively $m$ and $b$ unclaimed edges of $G$. Breaker wins if after the removal of the edges claimed by him the component of $v_0$ becomes finite, and Maker wins if…

Fallout does the grotesque good, meaning: breaking norms, contrasting the depraved and disgusting with Doris-Day-like shiny happy people vibes. But it doesn't really do much with it. Characters feel kind of detached. Hm. I like it better than the game though because at least it doesn't force you into 1st person POV which I really don't like and Fallout 4 kind of did. It's the only one of those I played. Never finished.

Series B, Episode 10 - Voice from the Past
GLYND: Sharp of you.
SHIVAN: You think I am so damn enfeebled as to forget the rules of the game? Enthrone your puppet Blake to posture and proclaim whilst you enjoy the real fruits of power.
https://blake.torpidity.net/s/210/451 📺 B7BB

Loose LIPS Sink Ships: Asking Questions in Battleship with Language-Informed Program Sampling
Gabriel Grand, Valerio Pepe, Jacob Andreas, Joshua B. Tenenbaum
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.19471

Loose LIPS Sink Ships: Asking Questions in Battleship with Language-Informed Program Sampling
Questions combine our mastery of language with our remarkable facility for reasoning about uncertainty. How do people navigate vast hypothesis spaces to pose informative questions given limited cognitive resources? We study these tradeoffs in a classic grounded question-asking task based on the board game Battleship. Our language-informed program sampling (LIPS) model uses large language models (LLMs) to generate natural language questions, translate them into symbolic programs, and evaluate th…

Join a flock or create your own at #SCaLE 21x. Attend a Birds of a Feather Session or sign up to create your own session. BoFs will run on Thursday, Friday, and Saturday nights, with the first sessions starting at 18:00 on Thursday and Friday and 19:00 on Saturday. The last sessions start at 21:00 on all three nights. BoFs do not have to be about FLOSS topics. Want a Maker BoF? A board game BoF? It could even be an offsite excursion. https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/21x/birds-feather-sessions

Tobight's baseball game is Stripers vs Durham Bulls.
#baseball
#MiLB
#GWNvsDUR

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2112.04965 has been replaced.
link: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=a

Permutations of counters on a table
We consider a game in which a blindfolded player attempts to set $n$ counters lying on the vertices of a rotating regular $n$-gon table simultaneously to $0$. When the counters count$\pmod{m}$ we simplify the argument of Bar Yehuda, Etzion, and Moran (1993) showing that the player can win if and only if $n = 1$, $m = 1$, or $(n, m) = (p^a, p^b)$ for some prime $p$ and $a, b \in \mathbb{N}$. We broadly generalize the result to the setting where the counters can be permuted by any element of a su…

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In other pop culture news I have watched a few episodes of #Fallout and while it does come close to the game world I somehow wish it wouldn't because that is what makes it a bit boring IMHO. I mean, it's okayishly thrilling, pulling you along with usual tv show mechanisms and it looks very pretty. But it's so detached from its characters that it doesn't do much for me. It has this c…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.09246 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csRO_…

Who Plays First? Optimizing the Order of Play in Stackelberg Games with Many Robots
We consider the multi-agent spatial navigation problem of computing the socially optimal order of play, i.e., the sequence in which the agents commit to their decisions, and its associated equilibrium in an N-player Stackelberg trajectory game. We model this problem as a mixed-integer optimization problem over the space of all possible Stackelberg games associated with the order of play's permutations. To solve the problem, we introduce Branch and Play (B&P), an efficient and exact algorithm th…

Convergence of reputations under indirect reciprocity
Bryce Morsky, Joshua B. Plotkin, Erol Ak\c{c}ay
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.10121 https://

Convergence of reputations under indirect reciprocity
Previous research has shown how indirect reciprocity can promote cooperation through evolutionary game theoretic models. Most work in this field assumes a separation of time-scales: individuals' reputations equilibrate at a fast time scale for given frequencies of strategies while the strategies change slowly according to the replicator dynamics. Much of the previous research has focused on the behaviour and stability of equilibria for the replicator dynamics. Here we focus on the underlying re…