Project I showed at our C2 "indie creators" meetup last night - a thing that watches a Mahjong Soul game (via HDMI from iPad) and suggests the best move in real-time. This is just for machine learning practice, no plans to actually cheat online!

While the main app is C++, my favorite part was writing a 3d "garbage mahjong scene" generator in Unity that creates labeled synthetic data for the object recognition model training (YOLOv8)

Hmm.. If you had the same issue, sharing a natural language "code" could be more useful than the Python script. While AI isn’t perfect at this yet... soon. Smaller, safer, and cross-language friendly. I'd be like, sure man, here’s the NL source: https://pastebin.com/wmXr743i

Thought this was a cool example of using AI to do grunt work - See this image? (tiles from Mahjong Soul) For a research thing I needed to split it apart into individual pngs and name each one according to riichi mahjong notation. How would you do it? How long would it take?

Well, it took like 5 minutes! (using Claude 3.5 Sonnet) Write clear directions, have it write a python script, run it locally and yer done.

Having fun pla..er, researching Black Myth: Wukong. Tip: To change the difficulty from "Sekiro style spend 5 hours on a boss to memorize its patterns, a skill you will never use again" to "old people mode, might die on bosses once or so" just install these two mods:

Working on a thing that that makes simple Twine game projects from a text prompt. This one is "Player is in a dungeon. Let them escape and win by solving puzzles. Bad moves equal death!" All locally generated, took all night

Gotta say, youtube is much better with SponsorBlock and DeArrow extensions installed. I also recommend "Control Panel for Twitter". They all work on mobile too! (you have to use a browser instead of their native apps, but it's worth it)

Something horrible happened to this 3DO Karaoke Mixer box due to my stupidity... 😱

Interested in Education and AI? Check out this paper I collaborated on: "AI-based avatars are changing the way we learn and teach: benefits and challenges" https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/education/articles/10.3389/feduc.2024.1416307/full