The TLD development is in full swing! We are not only testing the fifth level “Chaos Theory”, but are also working on a level editor to create your own fractal levels!
Soon, you will be able to create fractals by using our TLDL grammar (https://seismic.myftp.biz/blog/index.php/2020/11/19/l-systems-in-games-part-1-basics/). Currently, the focus is on easy sharing of the game files and code editing compatible with mobile devices. Note that the code visible on the left of the screen is just an overview of the fractal, not the view you will be working with. We are also working on mechanisms to support the code-based approach.
Here is a small blog post about a small update! Now, TLD finally remembers if you mute the music. Also, we implemented basic compliance for our European and Brazil users. We consider there will be an option to buy an ad-free version. Stay tuned!
Fi-na-lly! The last academic work I committed myself to. Of course, I was fairly motivated in 2019 and enrolled in Business Informatics and Technical Physics at the Technical University of Vienna. While I learned a lot of fascinating theories and principles, what was really suffering was my time and energy for my game projects. As far as my studies go – I am now finished, and I do not plan any more of them in the next time. I might finally be able to finish the games.
Regarding the thesis, I used the Julia programming language and Jupyter to find efficient ways of calculating correlation functions, which are physical entities which can for instance describe the probability of electrons jumping from atom to atom. These functions are quite useful, as they can be used to derive several important physical quantities. The work contains the analytical derivation of the Fourier transform of those functions, as well as descriptions of the numerical computation. Download it here:
Who doesn’t like micro-projects? I am in the process of finishing my last degree – the bachelor in technical physics. During my time on working on my thesis, while I was desperately searching for a new smartphone cover for my S21 on Amazon, I had the idea to combine a magnetic smartphone cover, a neodymium magnet and the holder spot of my old car into something handy!
I only needed one neodymium magnet, one scew which fitted and I took down the old holder of the car. It was broken, so I used some instant glue. With a 3D printer, I could have printed the black part. Due to not having a lathe, I had to file the screw to my needs 😂!
After some filing I quickly put those together and mounted them on the car holder:
I tried to add the phone with the case, but it seems that the neodymium was too strong!
RIP!
Seems like the threaded sleeve broke out of the already damaged plastic!
The solution was to use a longer screw and a nut, simple as that:
New screw with nut
With that, it worked! I tested it already for tracks with ~40km. Yeah!
In my opinion, the perfect micro-project! Refreshing for in between. And hopefully soon, physics will be finished and the game projects will continue. Which micro-project will be YOUR next one?
it’s been a long time since seismic.myftp.biz / seismic.at has gone online. I think it’s over ten years now. Unfortunately, it experienced an unusual long downtime the last 1-2 months. Yesterday, I tried to contact my provider one more time per e-mail and this time, they made the IP public again! I do not know why they made it private in the first place, I can only imagine it was made private automatically after ten years to preserve IP adresses. Anyway, I am just glad that it works again! Enjoy not only the accessing the website once more, but also the Last Dimension Leaderboard!
Finally! After a lot of work and especially a lot of stress during this summer, I was able to finish my master thesis and with it my master’s degree in business informatics. At the Technical University of Vienna, you do not get “MSc” as a title but “DiplomingenieurIn”, in short Dipl.-Ing. or DI.
The thesis itself compares modern deep-learning hate speech detection systems with rule-based hate speech detection systems, and analyzes the performance and also the explainability of those. I chose the topic because I am also pretty interested in chatbots (awesome what OpenAI’s ChatGPT can do!) but I did not have a lot of NLP (Natural Language Processing) experience beforehand. Thankfully, I learned a lot during this thesis and now I understand state-of-the-art NLP! Download it here:
Hope you all had a nice Halloween. I am nearly finished with my degree, and this year, I gave the Packet Assault 2019 Special a little revamp. We are open to feedback and ideas 🙂
Today I want to share a little side idea which would need your help:
We are the T&M group, six people who want to build the best Telegram meme-voting bot. However, the current bot permission system of Telegram is not sufficient. Therefore, we sent a suggestion to Telegram: https://bugs.telegram.org/c/16695 We would need your support with a like! Thank you!
It’s time again! For this end of October, MX wakes up in a strange facility where they do something with computers and education… I think it is called distance learning. But again, there are strange equation papers on the floor and I think those who played the other Super MX Halloween Specials might already know where this is going 🗒️…
