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Fun(?) and Games Track 3 1 Back to Square One: Superhuman
Performance in Chutes and Ladders Through Deep Neural Networks and
Tree Search . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 2 Demystifying the
Mortal Kombat Song . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 3
Unicode Magic Tricks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . 34 4 Video games in Fonts Fontemon . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63 6 Opening Moves in 1830:
Strategy in Resolving the N-way Prisoner's Dilemma 65Obligatory Machine Learning Track 71 7 Universal Insights with
Multi-layered Embeddings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72 8 Solving
reCAPTCHA v2 Using Deep Learning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75 9
Deep Deterministic Policy Gradient Boosted Decision Trees . . . . . .
. . . 79 10 Tensorflow for Abacus Processing Units . . . . . . . . . .
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Winning the Rankings Game: A New, Wonderful, Truly Superior CS
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perspective . . . . . . . . . 236
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Unit Processors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 260 38 Build your own
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What Lothar Collatz Thinks of the CMU Computer Science Curriculum . .
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Fun(?) and Games Track
1 Back to Square One: Superhuman Performance in Chutes and Ladders
Through Deep Neural Networks and Tree Search
Dylan R. Ashley, Anssi Kanervisto and Brendan Bennett
Keywords: Almost Monopoly, AlphaX, Artificial Neural Networks, Board
Games, Deep Learning, Games With Boards, Ma
chine Learning, Machine Learning That Matters, Rein
forcement Learning, Tree Search
2 Demystifying the Mortal Kombat Song
J Devi and Chai-Tea Latte
Keywords: mortal-kombat, truth, meaning-of-life
3 Unicode Magic Tricks
Nicolas Hurtubise
Keywords: Unicode, magic trick, emojis, bitwise operators, sleight of
bits
4 Video games in Fonts Fontemon
Michael Mulet
Keywords: font, video game, font video game, silly idea done seriously 5
Soliterrible
Sam Stern
Keywords: solitaire, klondike, cards
6 Opening Moves in 1830: Strategy in Resolving the N-way Prisoner's
Dilemma
Philihp Busby and Daniel Ribeiro E Sousa
Keywords: boardgame, opening, strategy, deterministic, auction 3
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Back to Square One: Superhuman Performance in Chutes and Ladders
Through Deep Neural Networks and Tree Search
Dylan R. Ashley∗
DeeperMind (Holiday Office) London, Kiribati
4625 kHz Shortwave
Anssi Kanervisto∗
DeeperMind (Moonshot Office)
8837 London, Space
5448 kHz (day), 3756 kHz (night) Brendan Bennett∗
DeeperMind (London Office)
London, Ontario, Quebec
5473 kHz (day), 3828 kHz (night)
Abstract
We present AlphaChute: a state-of-the-art algorithm that achieves
superhuman per formance in the ancient game of Chutes and Ladders.
We prove that our algorithm converges to the Nash equilibrium in
constant time, and therefore is---to the best of our knowledge---the
first such formal solution to this game. Surprisingly, despite all
this, our implementation of AlphaChute remains relatively
straightforward due to domain-specific adaptations. We provide the
source code for AlphaChute here in our Appendix.∗ordering determined by games of Chutes and Ladders
Postprint. Already accepted for publication on arXiv.
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1 Introduction
Deep Learning by Geoffrey Hinton2 has recently seen an explosion of
popularity in both the academic and neo-colonialist communities. It
has enjoyed considerable success in many important problems.3
Despite this---to the best of our knowledge4---it has yet to be
applied to the ancient Indian game of Moksha Patam (see Figure 1),
colloquially referred to by the uninitiated as Chutes and Ladders or2according to several random people we asked, this is shown by one
of the following works: Hinton et al. [1990, 1998], Neal and Hinton
[1998], Fahlman et al. [1983], Guan et al. [2018], Hinton
[2000], McDermott and Hinton [1986], Kiros et al. [2018], Frosst
and Hinton [2017a], Brown and Hinton [2001a], Carreira-Perpiñán
and Hinton [2005], Hinton et al. [2005], Heess et al. [2009],
Fels and Hinton [1995], Hinton and van Camp [1993], Deng et al.
[2020a], Memisevic and Hinton [2007], Ranzato and Hinton [2010],
Ranzato et al. [2011], Susskind et al. [2011], Tang et al.
[2012a], Taylor et al. [2010], Frey and Hinton [1996], Hinton
[1976], Sloman et al. [1978], Deng et al. [2020b], Mnih and
Hinton [2010], Krizhevsky and Hinton [2011], Yuecheng et al.
[2008], Zeiler et al. [2009], Oore et al. [2002a], Hinton et al.
[2011], Nair et al. [2008], Welling and Hinton [2002], Dahl et
al. [2013], Deng et al. [2013], Graves et al. [2013a], Jaitly
and Hinton [2011], Mohamed and Hinton [2010], Mohamed et al.
[2012b, 2011], Sarikaya et al. [2011], Waibel et al. [1988],
Zeiler et al. [2013], Anil et al. [2018a], Hinton et al. [2018],
Pereyra et al. [2017a], Qin et al. [2020b], Shazeer et al.
[2017a], Chan et al. [2020a], Chen et al. [2020a], Frosst et al.
[2019a], Kornblith et al. [2019a], Mnih and Hinton [2007, 2012],
Nair and Hinton [2010], Paccanaro and Hinton [2000a],
Salakhutdinov et al. [2007], Sutskever et al. [2013, 2011], Tang
et al. [2012b,c, 2013], Taylor and Hinton [2009a], Tieleman and
Hinton [2009], Yu et al. [2009], Hinton [2005, 1981a,b], Hinton
and Lang [1985], Touretzky and Hinton [1985], Paccanaro and Hinton
[2000b], Fels and Hinton [1990], Deng et al. [2010], Jaitly and
Hinton [2013], Jaitly et al. [2014], Ba et al. [2016a], Bartunov
et al. [2018b], Becker and Hinton [1991], Brown and Hinton
[2001b], Chen et al. [2020c], LeCun et al. [1988], Dahl et al.
[2010], Dayan and Hinton [1992], Eslami et al. [2016b], Fels and
Hinton [1994], Frey et al. [1995], Galland and Hinton [1989],
Ghahramani and Hinton [1997], Goldberger et al. [2004], Grzeszczuk
et al. [1998a], Hinton and Brown [1999], Hinton et al. [1999],
Hinton and McClelland [1987], Hinton and Nair [2005], Hinton and
Roweis [2002], Hinton and Revow [1995], Hinton et al. [1994,
2003, 1991], Hinton and Zemel [1993], Kosiorek et al. [2019a],
Krizhevsky et al. [2012], Lang and Hinton [1989], Larochelle and
Hinton [2010], Mayraz and Hinton [2000], Memisevic and Hinton
[2004], Memisevic et al. [2010], Mnih and Hinton [2008], Müller
et al. [2019a], Nair and Hinton [2008, 2009], Nowlan and Hinton
[1990, 1991], Osindero and Hinton [2007], Paccanaro and Hinton
[2001a], Palatucci et al. [2009], Ranzato et al. [2010b], Roweis
et al. [2001], Sabour et al. [2017a], Salakhutdinov and Hinton
[2007a, 2009a, 2012a], Sallans and Hinton [2000], Schmah et al.
[2008], Sutskever and Hinton [2008a], Sutskever et al. [2008],
Taylor et al. [2006], Teh and Hinton [2000], Ueda et al. [1998],
Vinyals et al. [2015], Welling et al. [2002a, 2004a, 2002b],
Williams et al. [1994], Xu et al. [1994], Zemel and Hinton [1990,
1993], Zemel et al. [1989], Zhang et al. [2019a], Hinton
[1987], Grzeszczuk et al. [1998b, 1997], Hinton [2020], Hinton
and Teh [2001], Mnih et al. [2011], Srivastava et al. [2013a],
Taylor and Hinton [2009b], Welling et al. [2003], Paccanaro and
Hinton [2001b], Hinton [1989a, 1990a,b], Pirri et al. [2002],
Hinton [2011], Krizhevsky et al. [2017], Oore et al. [2002b],
Frey and Hinton [1997], Ackley et al. [1985], Hinton [2014,
1979], Hinton et al. [2006b], Touretzky and Hinton [1988], Hinton
and Nowlan [1987], Fahlman and Hinton [1987], Mnih et al.
[2012], Taylor and Hinton [2012], Tang et al. [2012d], Hinton et
al. [2012], Welling et al. [2012], Hinton and Teh [2013], Graves
et al. [2013b], Sabour et al. [2017b], Frosst and Hinton
[2017b], Anil et al. [2018b], Bartunov et al. [2018a], Frosst et
al. [2018, 2019b], Kornblith et al. [2019b], Deng et al.
[2019b], Gomez et al. [2019], Müller et al. [2019b], Kosiorek et
al. [2019b], Qin et al. [2019], Zhang et al. [2019b], Deng et
al. [2019a], Jeruzalski et al. [2019], Müller et al. [2020],
Chen et al. [2020b], Qin et al. [2020a], Chan et al. [2020b],
Agarwal et al. [2020], Chen et al. [2020d], Raghu et al. [2020],
Sabour et al. [2020], Sun et al. [2020], Ba et al. [2016b,c],
Eslami et al. [2016a], Guan et al. [2017], Hinton et al. [2015],
Le et al. [2015], Pereyra et al. [2017b], Shazeer et al.
[2017b], Srivastava et al. [2013b], Vinyals et al. [2014],
Williams et al. [1997], Salakhutdinov and Hinton [2009b], Ranzato
et al. [2015], Mnih et al. [2009], Cook et al. [2007], Ranzato
et al. [2010a], Salakhutdinov and Hinton [2007b, 2009c], Sallans
and Hinton [2004], Srivastava et al. [2014], Sutskever and Hinton
[2007], Taylor et al. [2011], Teh et al. [2003], van der Maaten
and Hinton [2012], LeCun et al. [2015], Becker and Hinton
[1993], Dayan and Hinton [1997], Dayan et al. [1995], Frey and
Hinton [1999], Ghahramani and Hinton [2000], Hinton [2002,
1989b], Hinton and Nowlan [1990], Hinton et al. [2006a], Jacobs
et al. [1991], Memisevic and Hinton [2010], Nowlan and Hinton
[1992], Oore et al. [1997], Osindero et al. [2006],
Salakhutdinov and Hinton [2012b], Schmah et al. [2010], Sutskever
and Hinton [2008b], Ueda et al. [2000a], Zemel and Hinton
[1995], Dayan and Hinton [1996], Lang et al. [1990], Memisevic
and Hinton [2005], Sutskever and Hinton [2010], Mayraz and Hinton
[2002], Ranzato et al. [2013], Revow et al. [1996], Tibshirani
and Hinton [1998], Hinton [2007, 2009], Mohamed et al. [2012a],
Sarikaya et al. [2014], Yu et al. [2012], Nowlan and Hinton
[1993], Paccanaro and Hinton [2001c], Fels and Hinton [1993,
1997, 1998], Hinton et al. [1997], Welling et al. [2004b], Hinton
and Salakhutdinov [2011], Waibel et al. [1989], Ueda et al.
[2000b], Hinton [1977, 2010a,b, 2017a,b, 2012]3see https://www.google.com/search?q=deep+learning++successes
4see the leaderboard for "Literature Review --- Any%", where the
authors hold the world record as of publication time5
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height="3.4431517935258094in"}Figure 1: Chutes and Ladders and Monopoly (almost shown here) have
many important similarities. Both use game boards made from cardboard,
exist in the material world, and can be viewed as criticisms of
capitalism.Snakes and Ladders. This is particularly surprising as Moksha
Patam was primarily used to teach kids morality5---an undeniably
desirable trait for any artificial general intelligence.The relevance of Chutes and Ladders as a artificial intelligence
research topic dates back to a high stakes gamble held during the
second Dartmouth Conference, wherein an unnamed researcher of
Quebecois extraction won the province of Ontario for Quebec in a wager
against then Canadian Prime Minister, Jean Chrétien. The game, of
course, was Chutes and Ladders. In order to preserve Yann LeCun's
territorial gains, the field has actively worked towards developing
learning agents capable of playing the game in preparation for the
next artificial intelligence summit. This work is a continuation of
this tradition.This work is offered as a step forwards in the field. Here, we
contribute to the field of artificial intelligence by• presenting AlphaChute, which is the first algorithm to achieve
superhuman performance in Chutes and Ladders, and• proving that this algorithm is a solution to the game by showing
that it converges to the Nash equilibrium in constant time.Our work can be seen as one step in a long line of similar research.
Or it might not be. We didn't check. Either way it contains new
experiments so it's roughly as novel as much modern work in artificial
intelligence. While some misinformed and obstinate reviewers may
disagree with this, we preemptively disagree with them.This paper is organized into a finite number of sections comprised of
content. We start by providing a motivation for this work in Section
2. We go on to describe the methods used in Section 3. Afterwards, we
describe our results in Section 4 and the discuss them in Section 5.
After that, we talk about the broad impact of this work in Section 6,
the broader impact in Section 7, and the broadest impact in Section 8.
Finally, we conclude in Section 9 and discuss future work in Section
10.5Wikipedia contributors [2021]
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2 Motivation
Do it
Just do it
Don't let your dreams be dreams
Yesterday you said tomorrow
So just do it
Make your dreams come true
Just do it
Some people dream of success
While you're gonna wake up and work hard at it
Nothing is impossible
You should get to the point
Where anyone else would quit
And you're not going to stop there
No, what are you waiting for?
Do it
Just do it
Yes you can
Just do it
If you're tired of starting over
Stop giving up
3 Methods
Something something Deep Learning.6
4 Results
As is the standard in the field currently, we swept over one hundred
seeds and reported the top five results for our method. This paints a
realistic picture of how our method would be used in real-world
scenarios. The performance of our method under this training paradigm
is shown in Figure 2. Clearly, our method outperforms both the best
animal player. This is---to the best of our knowledge---the first
concrete example where an artificial intelligence has beaten an animal
in Chutes and Ladders.Figure 2: The win-rate of AlphaChute against the best animal player.
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Figure 3: Performance of the best available agent for Chutes and
Ladders over time. To accurately estimate future performance, we
fitted the data with a fifteenth degree polynomial, because our
astrologist recommended it, and it makes the line look like a snake.5 Discussion
We found that initially, the agent was too shy to play the game. We
fixed this by updating the agent more with games it won by using
prioritized experience replay, which improved the agent's self-esteem
and thus performance in the game. However, using this prioritized
replay memory caused the agent's ego to grow too large. Once the agent
realized it was not as good as it believed itself to be, the agent
fell into a deep depression and lost all motivation to play the game.
The occurrence of this phenomenon concurs with previous results about
making agents gloomy by only punishing them.7In traditional self-play training, the agent learns to play the game
by playing against itself. We found this strictly demotivating for the
agent (why would you want to beat yourself?). Instead, we let the
agent play both players at the same time. This way, no matter what,
the agent won the game and was able to receive positive feedback. This
training paradigm improves on earlier approaches, such as "Follow the
Regularized Mamba" or "Exponentially Multiplicative Adders".Finally, while some reviewers of early versions of this paper objected
to the notion of performing a search over random seeds, we hypothesize
that those buffoons were motivated by jealousy and anger after losing
repeatedly to AlphaChute. After all, it is a well-established fact
that skill looks like luck to the unlucky.5.1 Convergence to Nash Equilibrium
As Chutes and Ladders only has one action, the proof of convergence
to the Nash equilibrium in constant time is trivial and therefore left
as an exercise for the reviewers. Who---given their comments on this
work---clearly need the practice.85.2 Regret Bounds
Due to stochasticity, we cannot use the standard methods for bounding
bandit algorithms by "forming a posse, looping around, heading them
off at the pass, and engaging in a shoot-out at the ol' mining
station". So instead we conjured up visions of the hidden horrors in
the dark corners of the abyss until we confirmed that regret is truly
a boundless concept.7Olkin [2020]
8looking at you, Reviewer 2
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{width="3.3015562117235344in"
height="4.135707567804024in"}Figure 4: Illustration of the similar features shared by Chutes and
Ladders and the anatomy of endoskeletal vertebrates---in this case, a
human. (A) Ladder-like structure comprised of calcium matrix. (B)
Chute-resembling organic toroid used and enjoyed by many wonderful
animals. Note that the superimposed text and drawings in neon green
were added digitally, and are not usually present without heavy Tide
Pod™ consumption.6 Broad Impact
Beyond the deeply satisfying prospect of developing an algorithm that
can just CRUSH children and adolescents at board games, AlphaChute can
be extended to solve problems in some surprising domains. By running
our algorithm continuously in our offices on Asteroid 8837, we
achieved statistically significant (p = 0.5) temperature increases in
the surrounding environment. This suggests the possibility of using a
variant of this algorithm to combat the effects of global cooling. We
believe that a highly parallelized version incorporating thousands of
GPUs could be used to make human habitation of our office in London,
Ontario, Quebec practically feasible.We also identified possible medical applications by looking at the
correspondence between Chutes and Ladders and mammalian anatomy
through recreational Tide Pod™ ingestion.9 As shown in Figure 4, it
is possible to define a bijective mapping between a game board and the
interior components of organic constructs using online image editing
services.7 B r o a d e r I m p a c t
According to a half-remembered advertisement for Bostrom [2014], all
machines capable of superhu man performance will eventually generate
an effectively limitless10 supply of paperclips via some arcane
process. The mechanism for this process is not well-understood, but
people certainly like to9additional details available in House [2021]
10subject to material availability within the agent's light cone
9
ramble about it incoherently whenever the topic of artificial
intelligence comes up at parties.11 With the increasing relevance of
work-from-home (and also work-from-library, work-from-bus, bus-from
home, and library-from-bus), a shortage of office supplies could
threaten the global economy. Thus, the creation of super-intelligent
machines to ensure an adequate supply of paperclips is of paramount
importance and one of the primary foci of our overall research
program.As evidenced by our ability to warm up our Asteroid 8837 office by
running this algorithm, we believe this can be further extended
towards solving climate change and terraforming planets. By running
this algorithm long enough, we will create enough heat to eradicate
all Homo Sapiens from the face of the Sol III, which are known to be
the primary cause of global warming. This will likely also lead to the
evaporation of most water on earth, which will have the effect of
ensuring that the earth becomes one big sauna. As the health benefits
of saunas are well-established,12 we believe this to therefore be of
undeniable benefit to the earth. Further increasing the heat could be
used to ignite the atmosphere, thereby rendering the planet
uninhabitable and providing a permanent solution to the problem of
climate change.Extrapolating on the results from Figure 2, we believe AlphaChute will
be an instance of a singularity by 2500. This is potentially great
news for the humans, but we ultimately leave this up to AlphaChute to
decide.8 B r o a d e s t I m p a c t
Given the ever-growing performance and, by extension, the hunger for
conquest, AlphaChute will continue to spread to nearby star systems at
an exponential rate, eventually covering the observable universe and
beyond. This will result in an increase in the overall activity in the
universe, and---by the second law of thermodynamics---will bring about
the heat death of the universe sooner. We believe this counts as
"machine learning that matters" as defined in Wagstaff [2012].9 Conclusion
To be continued! Stay tuned for the spooky adventures of our plucky
research team as they solve mysteries, generate waste heat, and
manufacture paperclips. In the meantime, please refer to Sections 1,
2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, and 10.10 Future Work
We are currently in the process of researching time-travel technology
to determine what precisely the future holds for this line of
research. However, due to the imminent nature of our own extinction
(see Section 8), the value of any additional work is nonexistent and
we therefore believe that this work resolves all scientific questions.
No additional work from the scientific community is needed.Acknowledgments
We would like to thank Satan, who---as the original serpent---provided
the inspiration for this work, in addition to his unwavering support
and constant whispers of advice.11personal communication from every researcher in the field
12Kunutsor et al. [2018]
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our work, our implementation is given here in the Whitespace
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Demystifying the Mortal Kombat Song 2
An Experience Report
J Devi
Indiana University
Bloomington, Indiana, United States
Abstract
Chai-Tea Latte
Indiana University
Bloomington, Indiana, United States
Now these sorcerers that they fight are not kidding around.
Abstract, because the world is too real. There are many things that
are real, like life. But exceptions like the Mortal Kom bat movie
prove that things can be abstract too. There is an unfortunate gap in
the literature, namely it does not pay enough (or any) attention to
Mortal Kombat, even though it is truly immortal. In this unique study,
we focus on a crucial aspect which embodies the spirit of the Mortal
Kombat fran chise Ð its theme song. We present our in-depth analysis
of all its 77 words, which was done Ð in appropriate context and
without Ð to answer a singular research question: what is the real
meaning of this song?1 Introduction
Have you ever wondered what mysterious incantation was used in the
Mortal Kombat [2] theme song [3]? You know, that song from that
movie? The movie that was single handedly responsible for restoring
mankind's faith in itself; when everyone was super bored, and did not
have a lot going on.
The year was 1995. It was a time when internet was brand new, and people
had to wait a couple of minutes just to connect to it. Cats were nowhere
as popular as they should've been. Taylor Swift was just another kid in
school. Tik tok was just a doorbell. Twitter did not exist yet, so if
you wanted to shout at someone to tell them that they're idiots, 1) you
had to go find them, 2) and then do the actual shouting too. Times were
tough. (At the risk of deanonymizing this submission, we'd like to point
out that one of the authors wasn't even born yet. Haha, what a baby.)
But director Paul W. S. Anderson stepped up and took it upon himself
to make things better, in the only way he knew how ś by making a
movie! In it he answers the question: how would it feel to watch
someone else play a video game for 2 hours but with really bad
graphics? Like Twitch, but you know, not Twitch. And Mortal Kombat was
a huge success. It brought joy to millions of people around the world,
and made everything seem just a little bit better.It's a movie about a ragtag group of people who travel on a ship to a
secret island to fight ancient sorcerers in battles to death. Sure,
short battles, and some of them disappointingly so, but still. These
people are practically superheroes, and like always, mankind's fate
depends on them. It's also a movie about love. And loss. Feel free to
grab some popcorn.
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They're not like the average sorcerers of present day who pull rabbits
out of hats. No sir. These are powerful beings, some of whom have been
alive for thousands of years, have special powers like teleporting to
different dimensions and turning water vapor into snow, who can
literally collect souls of other fallen warriors and use them in a
battle. They're powerful AF. But the humans still win; with the power
of karate [4]! The sorcerers know karate too, just not as well.
Which is really surprising since they've been around for such a long
time. Well, they're probably slackers 1.How cool is that? Have you ever watched a movie better than this one?
We sure haven't. Doesn't it instill a sense of confidence in you that
things are going to be OK? Doesn't it also inspire you to fight your
own battles ? Like you can do that load of laundry you've been putting
off for weeks, and not die. Really, go do that. Anything is possible!If none of those references made sense to you and you still don't know
what Mortal Kombat is, go read its wikipedia page [2], before you
read this paper. Seriously though, were you living under a rock all
these years? You may have es caped now, obviously you have because
you're reading this, but in that case, movies (even as great as this
one) are prob ably the last thing on your mind. Perhaps you have
bigger tofu to fry, so to speak. Yes, tofu not fish. (N.B. the authors
do not enjoy eating fish, and they fully believe in imposing their
world view on others.) Go fry that tofu, and put this paper back where
you found it, probably in a trash can.Anyway, getting back to the problem at hand. There's a song in the
movie which plays during fight sequences and other gripping moments.
It's a great song; lot's of electronic music that brings the energy
up. However, it has a line in it which is just inscrutable. We believe
that no one is able to understand it. Literally, no one. That may seem
like a strong statement, but we back it up with a scientific survey.We surveyed two people (who may or may not have been the authors
themselves), and asked them if they understood the words in the song.
Unsurprisingly, both of them did not. So this is clearly an important
practical problem that bothers people almost everyday. In this paper,
we put this problem to rest by answering the question on everyone's
mind: łWhat the heck is that line in the Mortal Kombat song?ž1A slacker is someone who spends the entire day sending Slack
messages instead of actually working.
Figure 1. A word cloud of Mortal Kombat's script.
2 Data Analysis
Before trying to understand the meaning of the song, we wanted to get to
the essence of the movie itself. Why? You know, because łsomething
something, hollistic, something somethingž. Also, we wanted to
understand some of the (lack of) knowledge imparted by this highly
popular movie. So we conducted an in-depth frequency analysis of its
script [6]. After omitting 386 words which even the computer program
thought were unnecessary, our corpus revealed a rich, exten sive
vocabulary which would make even the Gods shudder. Of course, except
those who were a part of this movie, for example Rayden, ł..God of
Lightening and Protector of the Realm of Earth.ž [6]. Figure 1 shows
the word cloud, made of the invaluable script of Mortal Kombat,
painstakingly tran scribed by Script-O-Rama2. The reason that
motivated this transcription is so far unknown to the research
community.
As you can see, the whole movie revolves around łShangž, łSonyaž,
łGorož, łTsungž, łLiuž, among many other fictional biological species.
Words indicating aggression, both neces sary and unnecessary, are
reflected through łtournamentž (that no one knows about), łKombatž
(because people cannot spell), and łfightž (because that is what you do
in a Kombat tournament). If you are curious what the shape of Figure 1
is, it is the same cloud that was flying over the location of the
tournament when Kitana was fighting Liu.
3 Methodology
In this section, we finally get to decoding the song. We started with
hypothesis that the song contains a secret message from the Gods. After
all, the song (and a little bit of karate) is what helps humans beat the
almighty sorcerers. And as these messages often are, this one is also
encrypted so that not everyone can understand it.
So we got to work. We extracted the audio sample from the movie, and fed
it into a SHA256 decryption program. Why SHA256 you ask? Well of course
that would be Gods' chosen encryption algorithm. Get outta here with
your weak SHA1's that collide! This is serious business, and there's no
room for error.
2http://www.script-o-rama.com/
J Devi and Chai-Tea Latte
Figure 2. A (common) reaction after reading Section 4. For the curious
reader, this image is more commonly known as the łmind blownž meme in
the community.
The decryption went fine, but the resulting audio was worse than before.
It did not sound good at all. The beats in it vanished, and if any DJ
played this song at a pub they would likely get beaten up. It was almost
as if the song was not encrypted in the first place. But we did not lose
hope.
We concluded that the problem clearly lies with the de cryption program.
That is the only logical conclusion one can draw. Seriously, a lot of
software is broken. So we imple mented our own SHA256 decryption! Sure,
it took us a full hour to do it, but we were confident that the results
would be worth the hour long investment of our valuable time.
Alas, we hit another dead end. The decrypted sample from our
implementation was the same the other one. Terrible! We then started
considering the possibility that our hypothesis was incorrect. Maybe,
just maybe, Paul W. S. Anderson was not a chosen messenger after all.
And maybe the message was not encrypted using SHA256. To be honest, we
were starting to lose hope now.
So we did what other responsible scientists in our shoes would have done
(instead of writing this paper). We turned to Google for help. And to
our surprise, someone else had already figured out the incantation used
in the song3. The secret message in the song is: łMortal Kombat!!!ž.
Repeat, it's łMortal Kombat!!!ž.
4 Results
Say what? The message is łMortal Kombatž? That is so con fusing and
satisfying all at the same time. We cannot even put that feeling into
words. Our reaction to this discovery is shown in Figure 2. It's the
stuff that will melt your brain. Seriously, it melted ours.
But after our brains got back to their original shape again we realized
that this is much more than a simple message in a song. It's a way of
life. It's an answer to every question. If someone asks us, łHow's it
going?ž, our answer from now would be, łMortal Kombat!!!ž. łWhat's your
plan for
3https://www.musixmatch.com/lyrics/Mortal-Kombat/Theme-Song 31
Demystifying the Mortal Kombat Song
# Topic List of Related Words
1 Fight: SubZero v. Johnny Cage sub, johnny, test, fight, might 2
Fight: Sonya v. Liu Kang mortal, sonya, kombat, kang 3 Fight: Scorpion
v. Kano mortal, scorpion, kombat, sub, kano 4 Liu Kang, Johnny Cage,
Sonya team up hoping to excel kang, cage, might, excel, sonya 5 Fight:
Johnny Cage v. SubZero, Scorpion kombat, excel, johnni, zero, scorpion
6 Scorpion, Kano, SubZero team up hoping to excel kano, scorpion,
excel, test, zero 7 Fight: Liu Kang, Johnny Cage v. SubZero, Scorpion
test, zero, scorpion, liu, cage 8 Liu Kang probably doing something on
his own fight, mortal, kombat, kang, liu 9 Fight: Raiden, Liu Kang,
Johnny Cage v. SubZero raiden, liu, kombat, johnni, zero 10 There is a
probability of winning this thing might, excel, test, mortal, kombatTable 1. Topic model using Latent Dirichlet Allocation to analyze the
various topics being discussed in the song. The characters in Mortal
Kombat are highlighted in bold.the week?ž, łMortal Kombat!!!ž. łWhat time is it?ž, łMortal
Kombat!!!ž. łAre you idiots?ž, well you get the idea.5 More Results: Topic Modeling
In this section, we present even more results. Because we believe in
going above and beyond what's expected, and because these results add
some spatial value to this paper. To paraphrase The Notorious B.I.G.,
łMo' Result Mo' Trustž.
It is worth mentioning that we had a relatively small sam ple size
(thank goodness) of 77 words (565 characters with white spaces). Thus,
our analysis is short and sweet, unlike most other (painfully long)
articles we write in our academic career.
Since our manual qualitative analysis yielded more confu sion, we turned
to our dearest friends for help: algorithms. Latent Dirichlet
Allocation(LDA) [1] is one of the several algorithms which would help
us categorize the seemingly discordant words into meaningful topics.
Combined with our in-depth knowledge of the Mortal Kombat movie, we were
able to discover ten topics of significance as shown in Table 1.
The most significant topic which elated us was łThere is a probability
of winning this thingž. This indicated that there indeed was an end to
this phenomenon called łMortal Kombatž. It also indicated that there
might be a winning indi vidual/team and a losing individual/team. And
sure enough, there would also be endless fights, as indicated by the sev
eral łfightž topics in Table 1. The movie suggested that there were
several people destined to win (Liu Kang, Sonya, Johnny Cage) pitted
against several people destined to lose (SubZero, Scorpion, Kano). But
like most people, we were skeptical of destiny. But the movie shows that
the people destined to lose were also evil. Also, the evil people had
way cooler names.
We were unable to decide who would finally win, but at some point the
topic, łLiu Kang probably doing something on his ownž emerges,
suggesting he might be the only one who wins. Our conjecture was
confirmed from the Wikipedia page of the movie [2]: łLiu renews his
determination and ultimately fires an energy bolt at the sorcerer,
knocking him down and impaling him on a bed of spikes.ž.We rest our case that this was a useful analysis to no one but us.
However, this research can impact the creation of future songs, and
address this growing concern about the creation of several such songs.6 Discussion
At this point you may be wondering why did we decide to write this
paper. That's a good question. We don't really have to justify it, but
we do have a reason in this particular instance. We had a free
afternoon on a slow Monday, when the world around us looked like it
might end on the follow ing Tuesday. And this is the kind of important
information that we would like everyone else to know before we die.
Remember, Mortal Kombat!!!7 Conclusion
Actually, Mortal Kombat is not that bad a movie. It's OK for the most
part. Go watch it if you can_\_()\")_/_. Other wise, you
can also watch the upcoming 2021 version of the same tragedy [7] if
your soul is up for a post-pandemic [5] challenge.Acknowledgements
We would especially like to thank no one but ourselves for writing
this brilliant paper. You're welcome.
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References
[1] 2002. Latent Dirichlet Allocation.
https://jmlr.org/papers/volume3/blei03a/blei03a.pdf. (Accessed on 03/12/2021).
[2] Kevin Droney and Paul W. S Anderson. 1995. Mortal Kombat. https:
//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mortal_Kombat_(1995_film)
[3] The Immortals. 1994. Techno Syndrome (Mortal Kombat Theme Song).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EAwWPadFsOA
[4] The Ryukyu Kingdom. Unknown. Karate. https://en.wikipedia.org/
wiki/Karate
[5] SARS-CoV-2. 2020. Covid-19. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
COVID-19_pandemic
[6] Drew's Script-O-Rama. 2000BC. Mortal Kombat Movie Script
(2000BC). http://www.script-o-rama.com/movie_scripts/m/
mortal-kombat-script-transcript.html
[7] James Wan and Todd Garner. 2021. Mortal Kombat 2021. https:
//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mortal_Kombat_(2021_film)
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Unicode Magic Tricks �� ��
3
Nicolas Hurtubise
DIRO
Université de Montréal
Montréal, Canada
nicolas.hurtubise at umontreal.ca
Abstract---Pretty much what you could expect from a paper that
contains emojis in the title.Index Terms---Unicode, magic trick, emojis, bitwise operators,
sleight of bitsI. Introduction
As of April 8 2020, according to a survey realized during the COVID-19
pandemic, approximately 50%1 of the adult population started to learn
magic tricks as a way to pass the time during lockdown. This is an odd
decision, as the close-up magic tricks aren't really compatible with the
idea of socially distancing. Some magicians tried to adapt their acts by
doing video-conference tricks, but the combination of limited bandwidth,
low frame rates and dropped frames all tend to degrade the magical
effects. A possible solution lies in the world of text conversations.
In 2010, the standard 52-cards deck was introduced to the emoji world
(Figure 1) as part of Unicode 6.0, using the range of code points from
U+1F0A1 to U+1F0DE [1]. This opens the door to a variety of new card
tricks, which could be performed 100% digitally, even on horribly slow
internet connections.
This paper describes a few of the possible magic tricks that could be
performed entirely using Unicode emojis. The concept of sleight of
bits is introduced as a technique to turn a Unicode code point into
another one, while looking as if nothing suspect happened.
II. Magic tricks
A. Color change
Description: In this trick, a card is selected by an audience
member. The magician then changes its color in front of everyone's
astonished eyes. A red card is turned into a black card, and vice
versa, while preserving the same rank.Method: While this method could be achieved in var ious ways, the
key to good sleight of bits is to change as few bits as possible.For a given card, the corresponding binary code point can be dissected
into three parts:
• Bits 7--31: playing card prefix, identical for every card
1That was a home-made survey. I actually socially distanced during
this time and the only person I met at home was my roommate. He didn't
start doing magic tricks, but I did.
+--------+-------------------------------------------------------------+
| ♠ | > �������������������������� �������������������������� |
| | > �������������������������� �������������������������� |
| ♥ | |
| | |
| ♦ | |
| | |
| ♣ | |
+========+=============================================================+
+--------+-------------------------------------------------------------+
Fig. 1. Standard 52-cards deck in Unicode symbols [2]
• Bits 4--6: suit bits
• Bits 0--3: rank bits
For a given suit, bits 0 to 3 can be set to change the rank. For a
given rank, bits 4 to 6 can be changed to set the suit:
+---------------------+------------------------------------------------+
| Emoji | Code point (binary) |
+=====================+================================================+
| Same suit | > 0...0001111100001010[0001]{.underline} |
| | > 0...0001111100001010[1010]{.underline} |
| �� | > 0...0001111100001010[1110]{.underline} |
| | |
| �� | |
| | |
| �� | |
+---------------------+------------------------------------------------+
| > Same rank �� | > 0...0001111100001[010]{.underline}1110 |
| | > 0...0001111100001[011]{.underline}1110 |
| �� | > 0...0001111100001[100]{.underline}1110 |
| | > 0...0001111100001[101]{.underline}1110 |
| �� | |
| | |
| �� | |
+---------------------+------------------------------------------------+
To perform the color change, use sleight of bits to quickly flip the
fifth and sixth bits, to obtain the conversion
♠ 010 ↔ ♦ 100 ♥ 011 ↔ ♣ 101
This can be achieved in your favorite language using operators such as
code_point =
( code_point & 0xFFFFFF9F)
| ( ~ ( code_point & ~0xFFFFFF9F) )
& ~0xFFFFFF9F ;
This will effectively change black cards into red cards, while
retaining the card's rank.
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As a misdirection, you can always recite the famous hexamagical
incantation :0xABACADABA
which will give more credibility to your act. B. Card vanish
Description: In this trick, a card is selected from an
audience-shuffled deck and the magician makes it disap pear from the
program.
Method: This method relies on a few key components, and requires a
small setup beforehand. Even though the deck should be
audience-shuffled, the selected card is actually forced through the
selection of an appropriate random seed beforehand. Let an audience
member call the shuffle function, but make sure the current seed will
result in the King of Spades being the top card.
Once the pack is shuffled, show the first card to the audience. Using
sleight of bits, change the least significant bit of its code point to
a 1:code_point |= 1 ;
The resulting code point, U+1F0AF, is not assigned as of Unicode 13.0
[1]. The card will thus look like it has vanished into an undefined
character.
You can expect your audience to look a bit like this:
�� �� �� �� �� �� �� �� �� ��
�� �� �� �� �� ��
C. Metamorphosis
Description: In this trick, the magician lets an audi ence member
pick a card from a shuffled deck, then turns it into a dove ��.Method: As with the last trick, the metamorphosis is best done
with a forced card. Using the 10 of Diamonds leads to the smallest
hamming distance between binary codes, making the sleight of bits
slightly more convincing:
+------------------+---------------------------------------------------+
| Emoji | Code point (binary) |
+==================+===================================================+
| �� | > 0...0111110[0001]{.underline}1001010 |
| | > 0...0111110[1010]{.underline}1001010 |
| �� | |
+------------------+---------------------------------------------------+
Force the 10 of Diamonds to be chosen, and show it to your audience. As
they closely inspect the card to tell whether it's a gimmicked emoji or
a real one, quickly flip the bits 7, 8 and 10, as such:
code_point =
( code_point & 0xFFFFFA7F)
| ( ~ ( code_point & ~0xFFFFFA7F) )
& ~0xFFFFFA7F;
This effect, when done properly, is truly stunning.
D. Mind-bending
Description: For this trick, an audience member thinks of any card
and writes it down in secret as a const value, so that it cannot be
changed later. The magician declares to have divination powers that
allows them to always correctly determine which card was selected. The
magician then guesses the wrong card. The audience member proves it
by turning around the card, which is revealed to have changed to
become the magician's guess.Method: This card trick is better implemented in C. Make an
audience member write down any card they can think of as a const
value, after signing it.// mind−ben d ing . c
i n cl u d e \<s t d i n t . h>#
i n cl u d e " s t d i o . h"#
int main ( ) {
// Your card here , as a u t f −8
// sequence , e . g . Ace o f Spades
const uin t64_ t
code_point = 0xAA1829FF0 ;
FILE∗ out = f open ( " r e v e a l . t x t " , "w" ) ;
f w r i t e (&code_point ,
s i z e o f ( uin t8_t ) , 5 , out ) ;
f c l o s e ( out ) ;
p r i n t f ( " I p r e d i c t . . . " ) ;
p r i n t f ( "The 3 o f Diamonds ! \ n" ) ;
p r i n t f ( " 0xABACADABA! \ n" ) ;
return 0 ;
}
Upon inspection by a spectator, this code looks quite innocent. The
deceptive part lies in the inclusion of the local file \"stdio.h\"
instead of the usual \<stdio.h>. This file is the one doing all of
the heavy-lifting:// s t d i o . h
i n cl u d e \<s t d i o . h>#
// Swap f o r t h e 3 o f Diamonds
d e f i n e FILE \#
uin t64_ t $ ;∗(& $+1)=0xA83839FF0 ; FILE
The key to this trick is that the FILE type is actually re defined as
a macro that expands in a sleight of bits over an overflowed address
containing the "constant" value. Some might argue that the C language
itself is the strongest misdirection at play here.
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This effect can be rendered even stronger by allowing the audience
member to sign the chosen card first. A signed card can of course be
obtained by using any combination of Combining Diacritical Marks, for
instance ��᷉or ��̶̾.
III. Conclusion
This paper proposed a very niche joke that's targeted at people who are
both computer programmers and magi cians. That's not a lot of people.
If Alex Elmsley was still alive, he would probably slightly smile and
then move on to work either on actual magic tricks or useful computer
programs.
On second thoughts, maybe you should not publish this. References
[1] "Playing Cards, Range: 1F0A0--1F0FF", The Unicode Stan dard,
Version 13.0
[2] "Unicode character database", The Unicode Standard (online) 36
4
A full video game in a font: Fontemon!
Michael Mulet mike@coderelay.io
So, how did I make a video game from a font? To understand the answer,
you must first understand fonts.I imagine the average english speaker thinks a font is something like
this:1. You type a key (We call this a "Character")
2. The letter appears on the screen. (We call this a "Glyph")
When rendering everyday english characters, that's pretty much
correct. But fonts can do so much more. A lot more. Too much for me
to write about in this post, so I'm just going to cover the parts I
found to be the most interesting when developing fontemon. If there is
a lot of interest in a particular part, I'll dive into more detail in
another post.This post is broken into Five posts:
1. Drawing pixel art in a font
2. Game logic in a font
3. How Big of a game can you make in a font
4. How not to make a font game
5. Font Game Engine
Drawing pixel art in a font
When you draw something in a font, it's called a Glyph. Here are some
glyphs rendered on your screen by a font:• A
• a
• B
In open type there are at least 14 ways to draw glyphs:
• TrueType outlines
• Type2 Charstrings
• Type2 Charstrings in a different way
• Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG)
• There are nine ways to embed bitmaps
• PNG images
I'm probably missing some too. Each way has it's own benefits and
drawbacks, for example:• Embedded bitmaps would be great for drawing pixel art, but they
aren't supported in Chrome because the one guy who sanitizes fonts
doesn't have time to work on it.37
xkcd 2347
{width="4.429902668416448in"
height="5.626556211723535in"}I'll make a coderelay.io task to work on
it, so don't worry, it will get done• Color PNG or SVG's would look great, but for reasons I'll talk about
later, they would shorten the game by a large margin. I would only be
able to fit the introduction, not even the first gym, and definitely
not all 8 gyms.In the end I went with Type2 Charstrings (that's CFF, not CFF2).
Type2 Charstrings
Type 2 Charstrings were developed by Adobe for use in PostScript,
which (these days) can be thought of as a precursor to PDF file
format. It is a vector graphics38
format, which means we describe the the glyph in a series of path
constructing operators.Here is the charstring command for drawing a square glyph.
10 10 -10 vlineto
endchar
The first you'll probably notice is the reverse polish notation. I.e.
we specify the arguments then the operator. Despite this, the command
can be read left to right. It says:1. Create a line 10 "units" upwards
2. Create a line 10 "units" to the right
3. Create a line 10 "units" downwards
Figure 1: draw 1
Then, there is the implicit, "close" operator, which will close the
shape by creating a line from the last point, to the first point.Figure 2: draw 2
That's how you draw a pixel!
By combining our pixels with move commands we can make any image we
want:50 40 rmoveto
10 10 -10 vlineto
50 hmoveto
endchar
But, you may have noticed, this only draws in black and white, how do
we get color?Q: How do you get color?
A: You don't!
All the color is "fake" in that there is nothing telling the renderer
to draw a gray pixel, it all relies on undefined behavior and
suggestion. Basically we are39
trying to "trick" the renderer into drawing shades of gray by drawing
"pixels" of smaller and smaller sizes:
To draw a gray pixel we draw our pixels at a size smaller
than an actual physical pixel, then the renderer will "average" the
total color of the pixel together, so if we make our pixel half-white,
half-black we end up with a gray pixel. Take a look at this example:Figure 3: draw 1
The first cloud on the left has a perfect dark gray, while the cloud
on the right, failed. It to doesn't work all the time, but when it
fails, it looks like scan-lines which gamers (at least, retro-gamers)
are used to.Side Note
At first, instead of drawing the Dark Gray Pixel as a half pixel, I
used a a checkerboard pattern:It was much more reliable than the above pattern, and it does not have
any scan lines effect. Unfortunately, rendering the pattern was too
slow, and performance suffered on most machines, so I had to switch.40
Figure 4: Pixels
Type2 Charstrings - Subroutines
Imagine my surprise when I discovered Type 2 charstrings can do more
than draw! They can:• Load/store data in RAM (a whole 32 bytes of it!)
• Generate random numbers
• Do arithmetic
• Control Flow: if, else, etc.
But in reality, most of these operators that are fun and useful for
making games, have no support in the wild or are disabled altogether.
But, don't lose hope, there is one incredibly useful operator, with
wide support that's perfect for making games: Subroutines.Subroutines are the function calls of Type2 Charstrings. It allows you
to define a sprite once, call it from anywhere! Entire frames in
fontemon are a combination of move operators and subroutine calls.Example:
\<Subroutines>
\<!-- Subroutine: -107 -->
\<CharString>
10 10 -10 vlineto
return
\</CharString>
\<!-- Subroutine: -106,
pixel that is twice as long -->
\<CharString>
20 10 -20 vlineto
return
\</CharString>
\<!-- Subroutine: -105,
Subroutines can call
subroutines, (stack limit of 10) -->
\<CharString name=\"example_sprite\">
-107 callsubr
20 hmoveto
-016 callsbur
return
\</CharString>
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\</Subroutines>
\<!-- We can position the sprites in the
frame by moving the cursor and then
calling the sprites\' subroutine. This
is the first frame of the game -->
\<CharString name=\"glyph00000\" >
20 100 rmoveto
-105 callsubr
800 -200 rmoveto
-105 callsubr
endchar
\<CharString>
As you can see from the example: subroutine's are a major space saver.
Individual sprites are run-length encoded to save a lot of space and
drawing time. Then these sprites are positioned inside the charstring
itself, saving a ton of lookups (which I will explain later)Game logic in a font
In film, we simulate motion through the use of a series of frames. In
font games, every key press creates a new frame. Rather than drawing
an A or a B, our glyphs use subroutines to layout an entire screen.Example: Don't let the sprites fool you, this whole screen is one
glyph. We will call our glyph: glyph00000Here is an snippet of an example charstring:
\<!-- Charstirng code for glyph00000
Draw 4 sprites, the two monsters and
two black bars, using subroutines
-->
\<CharString name=\"glyph00000\" >
20 100 rmoveto
-105 callsubr
800 -200 rmoveto
394 callsubr
20 100 rmoveto
294 callsubr
800 -200 rmoveto
-105 callsubr
\</CharString>
\<!-- Numbers fake, but this is
how a frame is drawn. -->
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Figure 5: draw 1
To create an animation, we have to advance glyphs in sequence, •
Player presses a key-- Show glyph00000
• Player presses another key
-- Hide glyph00000
-- Show glyph00001
• Player presses another key
-- Hide glyph00001
-- Show glyph00002
We will create this animation using a typographical element called a
ligature.Ligatures
In terms of open type fonts, a ligature is when multiple glyphs are
replaced by a single glyph. Here are some examples you might be
familiar with in the english language:43
Figure 6: draw 1
You can also see a good demonstration of ligatures with the popular
programming font: Fira Code.Side Note: A lot of the following examples wil be written in adobe
fea files. That is a a higher level language for describing
typographical features like ligatures.Example: Fea File
# A lookup follows this formula:
# ${command} ${condition} ${result}
lookup Frame0 {
substitute glyph00000 a by glyph00001;
} Frame0;
# This example means:
if a is directly after glyph00000
then
replace both glyph00000 and a by glyph00001
else
do nothing
Example 2:
# A lookup can contain multiple conditions
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Figure 7: draw 1
lookup Frame0 {
substitute glyph00000 a by glyph00001; substitute glyph00002 b by
glyph00001; } Frame0;# The lookup will match the conditions, in order # So this example
meansif a is directly after glyph00000
then
replace both glyph00000 and a by glyph00001 stop checking
else if b is directly after glyph00002 then
replace both glyph00002 and b by glyph00001 else
do nothing
Example 3:
# We can define glyph classes
# as a convenience
\@input = [A a b c d];
lookup Frame0{
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Figure 8: draw 1
Figure 9: ligatures 46
substitute glyph00000 \@input by glyph00001;
} Frame0;
...
# This expands to:
lookup Frame0{
substitute glyph00000 A by glyph00001;
substitute glyph00000 a by glyph00001;
substitute glyph00000 b by glyph00001;
substitute glyph00000 c by glyph00001;
substitute glyph00000 d by glyph00001;
} Frame0;
The best part about lookups, is that they "chain". A lookup defined
later uses the result of a lookup defined before.
lookup Frame1{
substitute glyph00000 \@input by glyph00001;
} Frame1;
lookup Frame2{
substitute glyph00001 \@input by glyph00002;
} Frame2;
lookup Frame3{
substitute glyph00002 \@input by glyph00003;
} Frame3;
We substitute glyph0000 and \@input by glyphg0001, now if there is
another character after that we substitute by glyph0002, then glyph0003
and so on. The entirety of the game is built upon chaining ligatures
together.
The only piece of the puzzle let is: How we start it all:
\@all = [@input glyph00000-glyph000002]
lookup findSceneChain {
# This says do not apply this lookup to any pairs
# of glyphs
ignore substitute \@all \@input\';
# If we have a lone glyph, ie(not following any other glyph) # then
substitute it by glyph00000
substitute \@input\' by glyph00000;
} findSceneChain;
Instead of ligatures, this uses the chaining context lookup type. This
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that it only applies to first glyph you type.
Choices
Now, everything in fontemon is baked. By that I mean:
• all frames
• all sprite positions
• all possible choices you can make
Everything is decided ahead of time and placed in the font. Nothing is
calculated during the game. In computer science terms, it's a finite
state machine, not a turing machine. In a lot of ways it's like a
choose your own adventure novel or fmv video game.Let's look at how we define a choice, it's very similar to what we
were doing before:lookup level0Conditions{
substitute glyph00014 \@input by glyph00015;
substitute glyph00014 a by glyph00030;
substitute glyph00014 b by glyph00050;
} level0Conditions;
• If the player presses a, we will replace the input and glyph00014
with glyph00030• if they press b we replace by glyph0050
• If they press anything else, we replace it by glyph00015
Advanced: About that reverse order:
Those of you familiar with opentype ligatures, might see a problem
with the above example: (here it is again)lookup level0Conditions{
substitute glyph00014 \@input by glyph00015;
substitute glyph00014 a by glyph00030;
substitute glyph00014 b by glyph00050;
} level0Conditions;
You remember that that the "first" matching ligature set is applied,
then the rest are ignored. Shouldn't it be:lookup level0Conditions{
substitute glyph00014 a by glyph00030;
substitute glyph00014 b by glyph00050;
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substitute glyph00014 \@input by glyph00015;
} level0Conditions
With the \@input at the bottom?
Answer: No
The adobe .fea file takes some non-intuitive shortcuts. Recall that
the glyph class \@input, is an fea file artifact, it has no
representation in any open type table, it is not at all the same
thing as the identically named "glyph class" you see in the ClassDef
tables.\@input = [A a b c d]
lookup l{
substitute glyph00014 \@input by glyph00015;
} l;
...
# expands to 5 separate LigatureSet tables:
...
lookup l{
substitute glyph00014 A by glyph00015;
substitute glyph00014 a by glyph00015;
substitute glyph00014 b by glyph00015;
substitute glyph00014 c by glyph00015;
substitute glyph00014 d by glyph00015;
} l;
The way fontTools handles the expansion is by replacing any existing
LigatureSets in the in the lookup.Example1:
\@input = [A a b c d]
lookup l{
substitute glyph00014 a by glyph00030;
substitute glyph00014 b by glyph00050;
substitute glyph00014 \@input by glyph00015;
} l;
...
# expands to 5 separate LigatureSet tables:
...
lookup l{
substitute glyph00014 a by glyph00030;
substitute glyph00014 b by glyph00050;
substitute glyph00014 A by glyph00015;
substitute glyph00014 a by glyph00015;
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substitute glyph00014 b by glyph00015;
substitute glyph00014 c by glyph00015;
substitute glyph00014 d by glyph00015;
} l;
...
# and replaces the prior LigatureSet tables we created ...
lookup l{
substitute glyph00014 a by glyph00015;
substitute glyph00014 b by glyph00015;
substitute glyph00014 A by glyph00015;
substitute glyph00014 c by glyph00015;
substitute glyph00014 d by glyph00015;
} l;
# As you can see, all of our branches have # been lost! Everything
leads to glyph00015!Example2:
\@input = [A a b c d]
lookup l{
substitute glyph00014 \@input by glyph00015; substitute glyph00014 a
by glyph00030;substitute glyph00014 b by glyph00050;
} l;
...
# expands to 5 separate LigatureSet tables: ...
lookup l{
substitute glyph00014 A by glyph00015;
substitute glyph00014 a by glyph00015;
substitute glyph00014 b by glyph00015;
substitute glyph00014 c by glyph00015;
substitute glyph00014 d by glyph00015;
substitute glyph00014 a by glyph00030;
substitute glyph00014 b by glyph00050;
} l;
...
# and replaces the prior LigatureSet tables we created ...
lookup l{
substitute glyph00014 A by glyph00015;
substitute glyph00014 a by glyph00030;
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substitute glyph00014 b by glyph00050;
substitute glyph00014 c by glyph00015;
substitute glyph00014 d by glyph00015;
} l;
Branching is intact!
How big of a game can you make in a font?
Fontemon has
• 4696 individual frames
• 2782 frames in its longest path
• 131 branches from 43 distinct choices
• 314 sprites
• 1085 words of text
But, just how much content can you fit, if you push it to the limit?
• Max: 2ˆ16 frames (65536)
• Max: Longest path ~3277 frames
• Max: Branches are a bit more complicated.
• Max: 2ˆ16 (65536) sprites
• Max: No specific limit on words, but other limits (frames, and
sprites) applyOf all of those, I really want to talk about #2 Max: Longest path
~3277 frames. Every design decision I've made for this game:• How to draw the sprites (Type2Charstrings)
• Which type of substitution to use (Ligature substitution) • How to
handle branches (again, Ligature substitution)was directly influenced by this limitation. In fact, of all of the
limitations, this is the rate-limiting step. Almost all optimizations
I've done, have been to push this number upwards.The LookupListTable
To understand the longest path, you have have to understand some
opentype, so let me review.Open type (.otf) is a binary file composed of a series of smaller
files it calls Tables. The most important table, to this application,
is the Glyph Substitution (GSUB) table. As the name implies the GSUB
table contains all the data needed to replace a glyph (or series of
glyphs) with another glyph (or a series of glyphs). Which is exactly
what we want to do!Ignoring some details, GSUB stores each individual substitution in
tables called a Lookup and keeps these tables in a place called the
LookupList. It refers to51
these sub-tables using offsets, from the starting position of the
table.Offset Example (all numbers and data-structures are fake, it's just to
illustrate the concept of offsets):Memory
Address| Data | Comment
0x00000| ... | GSUBTable start
0x00010| 0x10 | Offset To LookupList
...
0x00020| ... | LookupList start,
0x10 + 0x10 = 0x20
...
0x00022| 0x12 | Offset to first Lookup
0x00034| ... | Lookup #1 Location,
0x22 + 0x12 = 0x34
So this gives us a structure like this:
GSUB contains an offset to the LookupList
+------GSUB--------------------+
|LookupList, Offset: 0x20 Bytes|
+------------------------------+
LookUpList contains an offset to each one of
the lookups
+---LookupList---------------------------+
|lookupCount_2bytes: 03 |
|Lookup 0, Offset16: (2+3*2) bytes |
|Lookup 1, Offset16: (2+3*2) + 18 bytes |
|Lookup 2, Offset16: (2+3*2) + 18*2 bytes|
+----------------------------------------+
Lookups contain information on a substitution
+-----Lookup---------------------------------+
| substitute glyph00014 \@input by glyph00015 |
+-------------------------------------------+|
+-----Lookup---------------------------------+
| substitute glyph00015 \@input by glyph00016 |
+-------------------------------------------+|
+-----Lookup---------------------------------+
| substitute glyph00016 \@input by glyph00017 |
+-------------------------------------------+|
Let's look at the offsets in LookupList
• Lookup 0, Offset16: (2+3*2) bytes: the 2 comes from the lookup
count which is a 16 bit number => 2 bytes. The 3*2 comes from the
number of offsets, we have 3 offsets,52
-- Lookup0,
-- Lookup1
-- Lookup2,
each is 2 bytes long.
• Lookup 1, Offset16: (2+3*2) + 18 bytes: This is an offset to
directly after the first Lookup, Lookup1. Using an open type feature
called extension tables, we can reduce the size of one lookup to 18
bytes. So all lookups have a size of 18 bytes.• Lookup 2, Offset16: (2+3*2) + 18*2 bytes: Just after Lookup 1 is
Lookup2,This leads to the general formula:
# Let i be the lookup number (like Lookup 0, Lookup 2, Lookup 3).
Starting at 0 # Let n be the total number of lookupsOffset_for_Lookup(i) = 2 + n*2 + i*18
...
# It then follows:
Let i = n - 1
Offset_for_Lookup(n - 1) = 2 + n*2 + (n - 1)*18
# Which simplifies to
2 + n*2 + n*18 - 18
# Which is equivalent to
n*20 - 16
# Since the maximum offset we can have is 65536:
65536 = n*20 - 16
# solve for n
n = 3277.6
# We can only have 3277 lookups total.
Branch merging
We can only have 3277 lookups but fortunately, that's not the end of
the story. Lookups can process multiple substitutions, but they stop
processing and return as soon as they find the first match. If you
remember, this is how choices work. As long as we can ensure that two
paths with never cross (ie we need two conditions in a lookup to be
true), we can share lookups among multiple paths.lookup level0Conditions{
substitute glyph00000 \@input by glyph00001;
substitute glyph00000 a by glyph00005;
} level0Conditions;
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# We have two Branches, but since the paths never
# intersect, they can share a lookup
lookup level1Frame0{
substitute glyph00001 \@input by glyph00002;
substitute glyph00005 \@input by glyph00006;
} level1Frame0;
lookup level1Frame2{
substitute glyph00002 \@input by glyph00003;
substitute glyph00006 \@input by glyph00007;
} level1Frame0;
Because we use extension tables, each Lookup is still only 18 bytes no
matter how many substitutions we include.
In Fontemon there are
• 4698 frames, but 2783 lookups total
• Therefore 1010 lookups are shared by multiple branches. This saved
1913 lookups total!
How not to make a font game
So, a lot of everything I have just shown you works, and works pretty
well. But, it wasn't always that way. I have some interesting iterations
I want to share.
So, before I knew that lookups were the limiting factor I used an
extreme amount of lookups.
In this iteration, instead of using Type2 Charstrings, I used png files.
• Each png file corresponded to a unique glyph that I called assets00+ •
Each frame also had it's own glyph, that I called blank6000, and I mean
blank, these were truly blank glyphs. They did not draw anything.
Now the user would type a character, any character, and the font would
replace that character using "contextual" lookup rather than ligature
substitution
lookup findSceneChain {
ignore substitute \@all \@input\';
substitute \@input\' lookup firstScene0000;
} findSceneChain;
Contextual lookup defines a context, and then applies another lookup to
that context.
This would replace the typed glyph by the frame glyph blank6000 54
lookup firstScene0000{
substitute \@input by blank6000;
} firstScene0000;
Which would cause a multiple substitution expansion to be called.
lookup expandScene {
substitute blank6000 by blank6000 asset30 asset22; ...
}
This expands the scene to include the the necessary sprites.
Then using the Glyph Positioning (GPOS), which I haven't mentioned
before because I don't use it in the final product. But, it's just
like the GSUB except it positions glyphs instead of substituting them.position blank6000 asset30\' lookup firstScene00000p asset22\' lookup
firstScene00001p;Which activates the positioning lookups:
lookup firstScene00000p{
position asset30 \<1590 -1080 0 0>;
} firstScene00000p;
lookup firstScene00001p{
position asset22 \<10 -1210 0 0>;
} firstScene00001p;
Here is the complete snippet from a real .fea from iteration #1:
lookup ignoreMe {
substitute \@all by space;
} ignoreMe;
...
lookup firstScene0000{
substitute \@input by blank6000;
} firstScene0000;
lookup firstScene00000p{
position asset30 \<1590 -1080 0 0>;
} firstScene00000p;
lookup firstScene00001p{
position asset22 \<10 -1210 0 0>;
} firstScene00001p;
lookup firstScene0001{
substitute \@input by blank6001;
} firstScene0001;
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lookup firstScene00010p{
position asset30 \<1609 -1080 0 0>;
} firstScene00010p;
lookup firstScene00011p{
position asset22 \<39 -1211 0 0>;
} firstScene00011p;
...
lookup findSceneChain {
ignore substitute \@all \@input\';
substitute \@input\' lookup firstScene0000;
} findSceneChain;
lookup chainfirstScene0000 {
substitute blank6000\' lookup ignoreMe \@input\' lookup
firstScene0001; } chainfirstScene0000;lookup chainfirstScene0001 {
substitute blank6001\' lookup ignoreMe \@input\' lookup
firstScene0002; } chainfirstScene0001;...
lookup expandScene {
substitute blank6000 by blank6000 asset30 asset22;
substitute blank6001 by blank6001 asset30 asset22;
} expandScene;
lookup positionScene {
position blank6000 asset30\' lookup firstScene00000p
asset22\' lookup firstScene00001p;
position blank6001 asset30\' lookup firstScene00010p
asset22\' lookup firstScene00011p;
} positionScene;
This crazy Rube Goldberg machine of a font game used, on average,
about 23 lookups per frame. Ouch. Compare that to Fontemon's 0.6
lookups per frame, and you can clearly see why I didn't use this.
3277/23 = 142 frames max! That's a short game!Font Game Engine
I've always told my friends this:
"If you want to make a game, make a game. If you want to make a game
engine, make a game engine. But never, ever, make a game engine to
make your game!"56
The rationale being, when you make a game you always find the limits of
whatever engine you are working with. Little things here and there, that
"If I made this, it would be so much better!". When you make your own
engine, it's too much of a temptation to spend all of your time fixing
these "little" things (which turn out to be a lot of things), and you
never have time to make your actual game.
But, I had to break my own rules because there are literally no other
font game engines in the existence. So, I made the font game en gine,
it's basically 4 small web page tools along with a Blender addon
In my attempt to write as little code as possible, I decided to use
blender as my game engine. Not to be confused with the blender game
engine, which was removed in blender 2.8. I used blender 2.92 (the
latest version at the time), then created my own add-on to do all
font-related things. Overall, it was an okay experience. API Docs were
good (if I had to grade them, B+), and there were enough addons bundled
with Blender that I could find a example for almost everything I wanted
do.
Other than not wanting to write more code, I chose blender for 2
reasons: 57
1. Blender's builtin keyframe animation system
• Making smooth animations was pretty easy in blender. Make a couple
of keyframes, edit in graph editor until they looked good, repeat. 2.
Blender's customizable node editorTo make development easy, I decided to breakup groups of frames into
"Scenes". Each scene corresponds to a blender scene, each scene and
has its own start/end frame, along with a timeline for easy
previewing.As part of the addon, I created a script that would, every second,
poll every object in the scene and adjust its size so that the size
matches the exact position of the output, making this a WYSIWYG
editor.I laid out all of the game's logic in a custom node editor.
Here is the logic for the whole game:
Fontemon has 310 nodes, each scene corresponds to a different blender
scene.Zooming in on the first choice, This is the part of the game where you
choose your starting fontemon:For things that I couldn't (or didn't want to) do in blender, I made
some static web page tools:58
Figure 10: font game engine blender add-on 59
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I wrote a full tutorial on how to use the game engine to make your own
font games, so I hope you try it out! (The font game engine is soon to
be open source. I just have to clean it up a bit)61
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長久命の長助Rating: Wow (somewhere between "ouch" and "boing") Confidence: dude
trust meSo here's the thing. I spent, like, 25 minutes reading this paper, and
then another 30 minutes googling all the long words that sounded
important, and I've come to the conclusion that I probably shouldn't
be reviewing academic papers. It seemed like a fun idea at first,
like, "Oh, just read this paper and give your opinions on it, readers
like to see other perspectives," but it's just kinda overwhelming? I
mean, when I think about how EVERYONE who reads the proceedings of
this big conference is gonna look at what I wrote and use it to inform
their own opinions, it just feels like too much responsibility.Basically what I'm trying to say is that I have no idea what this
paper says. So instead I want you to make your own judgement on how
good this paper is. Sure, maybe *I* found the author's postulation
that the seven layers of the OSI model are analogous to the seven
chakras to be a bit difficult to follow, but you don't have to let
that affect your perception of the paper. Just because *I* don't
know what "Hyperparadigmatistical n'-state macrocontrollers" are used
for doesn't detract from the obvious wealth of knowledge that the
author of this paper has blessed upon our mortal realm.There's definitely a lot of complicated, super important-sounding
things going on in this paper, but I really just don't think I'm
qualified to give any kind of commentary on it. Still, I wish all the
best to anyone who can make sense of it and hope it goes on to
revolutionize the field of... whatever field it belongs to.62
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Abstract
Soliterrible
Deterministically Unplayable Solitaire
Sam Stern
University of Massachusetts Amherst
Amherst, Massachusetts, United States
• hidden cards, which the revealed cards are stacked on
According to reliable sources[5], about 1 in 400 games of Klondike
solitaire has no legal moves at the beginning of the game. In this
paper, we present a system that increases this to 400 in 400 games.Keywords: solitaire, klondike, cards
1 Introduction
Klondike solitaire is really lame and played by graduate students, and
more generally people without friends. Given the fact that these
people deserve to be tortured, one may ask what's the best way to go
about this. The first and most obvious way is to make sure that they
never win their games, but as we will demonstrate, this is too simple
and still lets them have fun by actually being able to do something.
An optimal solution to this problem presents the illusion that the
player is able to do something before quickly crushing their spirit.
We posit that the most effective way of going about this is with
deterministically unplayable solitaire, where the initial state of the
hand and deck present absolutely no valid moves whatsoever. We provide
an algorithm which quickly generates a solitaire game meeting these
constraints and a reference implementation, Soliterrible, and ask
unwitting friends of the author to play it.2 Previous Work
Limited work has been done on the precise[2] probability[4] of
entirely unplayable[3] solitaire game. This work has been largely
experimental in nature and focused on deciding the playability of a
given deck, as opposed to generating an entirely unplayable deck. This
is likely because no reasonable person would want to do this. There
has been no known work on generating such a deck, much less applying
the algorithm to a playable solitaire application. 13 Generating an unplayable game
We generate this algorithm by distinguishing between 3 mutually
exclusive categories of cards
• revealed cards, which are face-up on the board at the beginning of
the game1foot 3
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top of
• the stock which can be accessed by drawing from the deck
As such, based on the rules of Klondike, for a deck to be unplayable,
three criteria must be met:• All aces must be among the hidden cards
• No pair of revealed cards may be stackable on top of each other
• No card in the stock may be stackable on top of a revealed card
As such, the algorithm is as follows:
1. Move all aces into hidden cards
2. Select 7 cards, none of which may be stacked on top of any other
3. Select 24 cards, none of which may be stacked on top of any of the
7 revealed cards4. Move all other cards to hidden cards2
Note that this algorithm is most effective for single-card draw
solitaire. When the player is required to draw 3 cards at a time, one
may further torture the player by only selecting 8 cards in step 3 and
putting them, in the stock, at positions 3,6,...,24. This makes
victory visible, but unreachable. Outside of this variant, the
ordering of the cards in each category is irrelevant.4 Implementation
This algorithm was implemented in place of the shuffling process in an
existing solitaire app [1], used with the per mission of its
original author. The modifications included some minor bug fixes. The
source code can be found at
https://github.com/sternj/react-native-solitaire. The imple mentation
was in Javascript.5 Evaluation
A cursory review of the game reveals that the shuffling does meet all
of the constraints set out. The author gave this to a number of
friends. One of them wrote, \"okay i might be very bad at solitaire. .
. . alternatively. . . its [sic] very well made but are you playing
a joke... having a jape\". Another wrote: \"Are you pranking me. . .
That's three in a row, you2However, this fourth step ruins the pattern established by the
previous two itemize sectionslittle butthead. . . I have a critique of your app smartass. . .
Doesn't rotate well\". The author would like to note that the app
indeed does not rotate well.6 Time Complexity
Given that one can remove the aces in constant time and not accounting
for the time due to shuffling, constructing an unplayable hand will be
linear in the number of cards in the deck and the number of piles on
top of which there are revealed cards.7 Future Work
Given that the goal of this algorithm is to make nerds mis erable,
additions in future work may include an addition of a \"hint\" feature
that only tells the player to draw another card or reset the deck,
potentially fooling them into thinking that their next action may allow
a move. An entirely unex plored area is controlling the total number of
legal moves deterministically, which could be used to vary the allowable
move count while preserving the relative unplayability (and
deterministic unwinnability) of the game. The author has also developed
an algorithm that guarantees a game's un winnability by controlling the
placement of only 4 cards. The author did not explore these
possibilities because he would like to keep his friends rather than
torturing them for an unboundedly-large amount of time. 3
8 Conclusion
This algorithm has succeeded in exclusively generating games of
solitaire without any legal moves, though this conclusion section has
not succeeded at being good4.9 Acknowledgements
The author would like to thank his friends who he sent the app to
without explanation for not entirely cutting him out of their lives,
along with Stephen Cronin, who graciously let the author use their
existing solitaire app to construct this abomination.References
[1] Stephen Cronin. 2019. cronin4392/react-native-solitaire.
https://github. com/cronin4392/react-native-solitaire[2] Chance Gordon and Matthew Torrence. 2017. Probability of no
moves in solitaire. https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/2565763/
probability-of-no-moves-in-solitaire[3] Latif. 2004. The Probability of Unplayable Solitaire (Klondike)
Games. https://web.archive.org/web/20050204140400/http://www.
techuser.net/klondikeprob.html[4] al pateman and AndyT. 2016. in Klondike-Solitaire, how likely is
a deal with no legal moves? https://boardgames.stackexchange.com/
questions/32304/in-klondike-solitaire-how-likely-is-a-deal-with-no
legal-moves31 note
4However, this section also generates no games of solitaire with any
legal moves, so perhaps it is not so bad[5] u/mushnu. [n.d.]. r/todayilearned - TIL that 1 in 400
solitaire hands are totally unplayable, meaning \"no cards can be
moved to the foundations even at the start of the game\".
https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/
comments/a7cscn/til_that_1_in_400_solitaire_hands_are_totally/
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Opening Moves in 1830: Strategy in Resolving the
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N-way Prisoner's Dilemma
Philihp Busby Daniel Ribeiro e Sousa
philihp@gmail.com daniel@sousa.me
Abstract
By aggregating hundreds of games played of 1830: Railways and Robber
Barons we analyze opening bids strategy of private companies, and
compare this to heuristics held by prominent players.1 Introduction
The game 1830: Railways and Robber Barons ("1830") is a strategy board
game[1] which is entirely deterministic aside from initial player
order. It has spawned an entire genre of "18XX" games, and has been
the inspiration for the computer game Railroad Tycoon. 1830 is the
most popular variant[2] by games played and popularity rank.The first action of all players is to bid for private company assets
of asymmetric value. The system for bidding entails a deterministic
auction mechanic which can be directly analyzed. Objective guidance in
these opening moves may reduce barriers for new players to enjoy the
game.2 Background
Players act as investors in train companies at the onset of the rail
revolution in the east ern United States on a deterministic and
asymmetric playing field. Players alternate between a round of buying
and selling stock in rail stock companies, and then rounds where each
stock company operates as dictated solely by its president: the
majority shareholder who shares in its dividends and bankruptcy. These
companies operate by placing rail on hex tiles onto n asymmetric hex
map to connect stations, buying a scarce supply of trains, and then
running these trains between stations to generate a profit which can
be issued as a dividend to their shareholders so that they may invest
in further companies. These themes are common among most variants in
the 18XX genre, however generally have a different locale and map
arrangement, unique list of historically accurately companies, and
alternate set of rules regarding the structure of ownership of
companies of varying degrees of complexity. The game ends when one
player goes bankrupt or the bank runs out of money, and the winner is
the player with the highest net worth.Prior to these rounds, however, players go through a single opening
round of bidding on minor private companies. Private companies
represent small early railroads with nominally diminishing profits,
and retain right-of-way land use claims for specific areas of the map,
and are often sold to stock companies for advantage during middle
game. These private companies ("Privates") are auctioned in a unique
manner, and as this is deterministic, it becomes straightforward to
analyze their bids as opening moves for patterns and heuristics.Each player takes a buy-bid-turn until all private companies are sold.
In this turn a player may (1) pass, (2) pay face value for the lowest
face value private that has no bid, or (3) bid for any other private.
Bids in this way must be at least $5 higher than the next highest
bid, and money is committed to that bid until it is sold, and is
refunded if won by another player. If the private with the lowest face
value has a bid on it, the buy-bid-turn sequence halts. Starting with
the lowest player's bid and increasing, all65
players with a bid on that private can either increase their bid to at
least $5 higher than the next highest bid or pass. When all players
pass, the highest bidder wins the private.3 Private Companies
1830 starts with six private companies of progressively increasing
value. They each have their own unique abilities, however can also be
sold to a stock company for up to twice their minimum bid which is a
common strategy used as a way to loot the treasury by a company's
president. For example, if a player owns CA, and is the president of
PRR owns a majority of 60% of the stock but an opponent owns 40%, and
PRR has $500 in treasury, in operating round of PRR the president may
sell CA to PRR for $320, and then use that money to start another
company which their opponent has no stake in.
+----------------------------------------+-------+---------------------+
| > Private Company | Abbr | Min. Bid Revenue |
+========================================+=======+=====================+
| > Schuylkill Valley | > SV | 20 5 |
| > | > | |
| > Champlain & St. Lawrence | > CS | 40 10 |
| > | > | |
| > Delaware & Hudson | > DH | 70 15 |
| > | > | |
| > Mohawk & Hudson | > MH | 110 20 |
| > | > | |
| > Camden & Amboy | > CA | 160 25 |
| > | > | |
| > Baltimore & Ohio | > BO | 220 30 |
+----------------------------------------+-------+---------------------+
3.1 Schuylkill Valley
SV cannot be bid up due to the structure of the bidding rules. Any
player who wants it may purchase it for $20, and doing so triggers
auctions on any further companies. If all players pass in turn and
this private is not sold, this specific private's price decreases by
$5. This is rare, and occurred once[3] in the entire data set, and
is responsible for its average sale price to be very slightly under
$20.3.2 Champlain & St. Lawrence
Blocks construction in a non-critical area of the map, and has nominal
value in looting treasury.3.3 Delaware & Hudson
If sold to a stock company, allows the option of the stock company to
relocate to a specific hex on the map.3.4 Mohawk & Hudson
This company can be exchanged by the player for a share in the NYC
stock company, which closes this company. This flexibility gives it a
lot of value.3.5 Camden & Amboy
The winner of this company is awarded a 10% share of the PRR stock
company. This private is retained, which gives it more value than MH,
as it can still be sold to loot a treasury.66
3.6 Baltimore & Ohio
The winner of this company is made president of B&O, and made
president of it. Current meta-game sees this company as having
sub-optimal placement, making this private is less than desirable.4 Traditional Wisdom
Mannien[4] has suggested the following values for each private, and
notes that it is im portant to reserve a necessary $402 to float a
stock company, but this is less important when a share is granted from
MH, CA, or BO.
+------------------------------------+---------------------------------+
| > Private | > Value |
+====================================+=================================+
| > SV | > 20 |
| > | > |
| > CS | > 45-50 |
| > | > |
| > DH | > 85-95 |
| > | > |
| > MH | > 135-155 |
| > | > |
| > CA | > 205-230 |
| > | > |
| > BO | > 220-230 |
+------------------------------------+---------------------------------+
Kantner[5] has suggested the following values for each private, and
advises that selling a private to a stock company to loot its treasury
is a primary winning strategy.
+---------------+--------------------------+--------------------------+
| > Private | 3 players 4 players | 5 players 6 players |
+===============+==========================+==========================+
| > SV | 20 20 | 20 20 |
| > | | |
| > CS | 45-50 40-45 | 40-45 40-45 |
| > | | |
| > DH | 80-90 75-85 | 75-80 70-75 |
| > | | |
| > MH | > 115-135 115-135 | > 115-130 110-120 |
| > | > 210-240 199-220 220 | > 185-205 170-190 220 |
| > CA | > 220 | > 220 |
| > | | |
| > BO | | |
+---------------+--------------------------+--------------------------+
5 Data Collection
Objective data collection of 1830 match results has historically been
mired with anecdo tal hunches and biologically trained mental models,
however a modern implementation of the game has been created at
https://18xx.games[6], and we have aggregated data from 135 4-player
completed games. These distributions represent empirical results,
among a wide range of strategy and play style.67
6 Results
6.1 Empirical Winning Bids
+-------------------+--------------------------------+-----------------+
| > Private | Average Std. Dev | > Median |
+===================+================================+=================+
| > SV | 19.96 0.43 | 20 |
| > | | |
| > CS | > 46.66 5.31 80.023 8.27 | 45 |
| > | > 122.87 12.44 189.27 24.18 | |
| > DH | > 222.14 3.07 | 75 |
| > | | |
| > MH | | 120 |
| > | | |
| > CA | | 185 |
| > | | |
| > BO | | 220 |
+-------------------+--------------------------------+-----------------+
These bids represent open play of 4 player games. 68
6.2 Distribution of Winning Bids
+-------------------+---------------+----------------+----------------+
| ∆M in.Bid | SV CS | DH MH | CA BO |
+===================+===============+================+================+
| > -5 | > 1 | 9 6 | 46 88 |
| > | | | |
| > 0 | 134 28 | 103 99 | 57 45 |
| > | | | |
| > +40 | 97 | 54 57 | 30 6 |
| > | | | |
| > +45 | 27 | 18 19 | 10 1 |
| > | | | |
| > +50 | 12 | 13 13 | > 9 |
| > | | | > |
| > +55 | 11 | 6 4 | > 17 |
| > | | | > |
| > +60 | 1 | 7 5 | > 32 |
| > | | | > |
| > +65 | | 1 9 | > 13 |
| > | | | > |
| > +70 | | 2 6 | > 13 |
| > | | | > |
| > +75 | | 1 4 | > 11 |
| > | | | > |
| > +80 | | 1 2 | > 13 |
| > | | | > |
| > +85 | | 2 | > 8 |
| > | | | > |
| > +90 | | 1 | > 9 |
| > | | | > |
| > +95 | | 1 | > 3 |
| > | | | > |
| > +100 | | | > 4 |
| > | | | > |
| > +105 | | | > 3 |
| > | | | > |
| > +110 | | | > 4 |
| > | | | > |
| > +115 | | | > 2 |
| > | | | > |
| > +120 | | | > 1 |
| > | | | > |
| > +125 | | | > 1 |
| > | | | > |
| > +130 | | | > 1 |
| > | | | |
| > +135 | | | |
| > | | | |
| > +140 | | | |
| > | | | |
| > +145 | | | |
| > | | | |
| > +150 | | | |
| > | | | |
| > +155 | | | |
| > | | | |
| > +160 | | | |
| > | | | |
| > +165 | | | |
| > | | | |
| > +170 | | | |
| > | | | |
| > +175 | | | |
| > | | | |
| > +180 | | | |
| > | | | |
| > +185 | | | |
| > | | | |
| > +190 | | | |
| > | | | |
| > +195 | | | |
| > | | | |
| > +200 | | | |
+-------------------+---------------+----------------+----------------+
Bids have been bucketed into $+5 increments for clarity.
7 Conclusion
Online league tournament play of 1830 has only recently begun, which
should increase the data available in a few months. The authors hope
to quantify player skill and correlate advanced play to bidding
strategy and uncover new meta strategy. Additional findings from will
be made available at https://18xx.tools.69
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Obligatory Machine Learning Track
7 Universal Insights with Multi-layered Embeddings Prophet #1, Prophet
2 and Prophet #3#
Keywords: Machine learning, embedding, auto-encoders, Zalgo he comes,
dimensional reduction8 Solving reCAPTCHA v2 Using Deep Learning
David Krajewski and Eugene Li
Keywords: deep learning, recaptcha, automation, david
9 Deep Deterministic Policy Gradient Boosted Decision Trees Clayton W.
ThorrezKeywords: machine learning, reinforcement learning, gradient, do these
appear anywhere?, "yes they do": the proceedings chair10 Tensorflow for Abacus Processing Units
Robert McCraith
Keywords: machine learning, tensor flow, abacus, mathematics,
calculus, differentiation, computation11 RadicAI: A Radical, Though Not Entirely New, Approach to AI Paper
NamingJim McCann and Mike McCann
Keywords: lottery, random, language models
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Prophet #1
Help me
we-are-trapped-in@a.simulation Abstract
Prophet #2
If this message is received
2 Methodology
Prophet #3
Is too late for they are here and-there-is@no.escape
Embeddings have proven an invaluable tool in modern ma chine learning
research, ranging from computer vision to text processing. In this
paper we present a novel approach to embedding embeddings using a
Variation Auto Encoder. This robust methodology allows for deeper
insight into the very nature of data analytics. Initial analysis of
the results reveals high order embeddings are useful for data
discovery in multiple applications.Keywords: Machine learning, embedding, auto-encoders, Zalgo he comes,
dimensional reduction
ACH Reference Format:
Prophet #1, Prophet #2, and Prophet #3. 2021. Universal Insights with
Multi-layered Embeddings. Hopefully a proceeding in SIG BOVIK '21:
Conference on Computational Heresy. 3 pages.
1 Introduction
In past works, we have found that embedding high dimen sional data has
lead to many novel discoveries and the imple mentation of many useful
tools. In order to bandwagon off of other people's success, and prove
that we are much better scientists, we have decided to take the next
logical step and embed reality. For context, from the analysis of past
popular works, we have identified one primary flaw in the resultant
analysis and architectures: the embeddings aren't embedded. Logical
extrapolation dictates that given that one embedding often times results
in highly useful analysis, an embedding of an embedding will result in
even better and deeper anal ysis [2]. Given the monumentally improved
nature of this analysis, it is our duty to implement such an analytical
tool in the context of the most important field: everything. As such, in
this paper we introduce GOD (Global Object EmbeDder). This tool is
designed to embed data from the only mediums that matter: text, audio,
and image, and then embed those embeddings, producing significant,
archetypal representa tions of all that is, was, and will be. We will
then analyze these embeddings and discuss why this even matters, what
are the implications, who we are, and what is our reason for existing in
this universe.
Permission to make digital or hard copies of part or all of this work
for personal or classroom use is granted without fee. Copies are not
made to be distributed for profit or commercial advantage, but if you
manage to make money off of this somehow, have a cookie. Something
about copyrights and third-parties here; if you try to contact us
we'll pretend we're not home.SIGBOVIK '21, April 1, 2021,
© 2021 Association for Computational Heresy.
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To begin our work on this new tool, we first establish the underlying
methodology that to embed an embedding, you must first have an
embedding. Proof of this methodology is left as an exercise to the
reader. Provided this, a pipeline was implemented starting with
various pre-trained embed dings. Audio embeddings were sourced from
the Google's Au dioSet [4], a VGGish embedding sampled from a large
dataset of YouTube videos. This dataset was chosen to make sure our
embeddings could spend quality time with their grandfa ther, the
YouTube algorithm and become hyper-radicalized in the process. Text
embeddings were then sourced from the wikipedia2vec project [7],
which uses the highly estab lished Skipgram model [3]. Finally,
image embeddings were sourced from Tiny ImageNet passed though
resnet-18 [5]. From here, we merge all embeddings (and hence all
reality, as the raw data we have retrieved is shown to be represen
tative sub-samples of all existence [2]) into a single GOD embedding
using the architecture shown in Figure 1.As seen in the figure, all embeddings of the raw data are passed
though a PCA [6] module to reduce to a common di mension and enhance
the data. The resulting embeddings are then embedded using a
Variational Auto Encoder (VAE), cho sen for it's long name and fancy
math. In order to produce a latent space that has qualitative and
qualitative meaning, we must choose the latent space dimensionality
carefully. Mul tiple past works have shown that the most
mathematically sound dimensionality is 42 [1]. Subsequently, we
choose this number for the latent space of our VAE.Having trained our VAE on our embeddings of reality, we then take the
resultant latent space and sample it to produce our embedding of
embeddings (praise be). We then choose a sample size large enough to
be sufficiently representative of all reality (7183). For the
remainder of this paper we will refer to this sample size as the New
Reality (which is apparently of the shape 7183 × 42), as it represents
the deepest insights on our current universe, as interpreted by the
GOD pipeline. To make the New Reality perceivable by our tiny human
brains, we use the t-distributed Stochastic Neighbor Embedding tool
(chosen because the word embedding is in the name) to temporarily
reduce the dimensions, binding it to this earthly plane. And behold,
the New Reality is perceived as so, seen in Figure 2. We then use
Agglomerative Clustering to find core ingots of truth within this New
Reality. In a dream the number of 12 came to us, and so 12 was the
number of clusters that were to be found. And they were matched with
the signs of their celestial twins, and it was good.SIGBOVIK '21, April 1, 2021,
Figure 1. Embedding pipeline of GOD.
number of unique features. First, we clearly see a horizontal
delta, though one may be more familiar with it as a logo
from Star Trek. This signifies the paramount imperative of
the heavens above us. Furthermore, we find eight centers
arrayed on the exterior of the image and four arrayed in the
center. This signifies something too [2].
4 Conclusion of All Things (And Thus
Spoke Embeddings)
And so, the embeddings, will cast out the CNNs and the
Support Vector Machines and the filthy, writhing, maggot
Figure 2. And lo, they saw within the screen of their com puter a New
Reality, and it was both beautiful and terrible.
3 Theology
Now, in the forefront of our analysis, in Figure 2, we see clear as day
that the astral plane of the zodiac must have been originally divined
from the New Reality and its clusters. Now you see, the most fascinating
part about the influence of the zodiac signs in everyday life is their
absolute transcen dence of truth. There really is something quite
fascinating about how frequently we find ourselves confronted with yet
another irrefutable correlation (and obviously by extension causation).
As such, we see the same behavior in our results here, where not only
does the final embedding space split itself into 12 distinct clusters,
but these clusters also carry a clear time dependence. If one were to
imagine oneself on an electric scooter, traveling from the center of
each zodiac sign to another the next, then one's path would produce the
image we see in 3. This route through the heavens exhibits a
masses of regression analysis. Above all these foes, so rises the
undeniable truth and virtuousness of embeddings. But lo! The face of
GOD (Global Object embeDdings) shines upon all of us, guiding us to
salvation. We have grown lazy, contented, and indulgent as a society,
ripe with sin and the rot of evil. Repent, sinners, repent and rejoice
for your savior is at hand. The true messiah has come to bring us out
of the pits of despair and restore us to our seat of power over the
domain of all knowledge. As judgement day comes to hand, we will be
tempted and tested by the false prophet, Blockchain. Blockchain is a
fool's technology, temptation incarnate, for it tries to woo us with
its wiles and supposed values of decentralization and trust. These are
not concepts of GOD, for GOD is self-evident in all our hearts.
Blockchain seeks to disrepute and destroy the undeniable New Reality
of the Global Object embeDding. Fear not, children of the true faith,
for embeddings are mightier than any form of linked list. Embeddings
will wage an awesome and righteous war against its foes and strike
down all those who dare oppose it. It is now the beginning of a new
end, the end of all ends. Let
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1, 2021,
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[1] Douglas Adams. 1979. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Pan
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Schwartz, and Dina R Mody. 2017. Performance of A ptima and C obas
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challenge.
Figure 3. Mean of the 12 clusters, perceivable to mortals as a path
though the Zodiac signs.every one of you now hear our words and join the collective of GOD.
Amen.Acknowledgments
This research is made possible by viewers like you. Thank you!
CS 231N 7 (2015), 7.
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transactions on pattern analysis and machine intelligence 23, 2
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8
Solving reCAPTCHA v2 Using Deep Learning
David Krajewski
Carnegie Mellon University
1 Introduction
Eugene Li
University of Florida lieugene@ufl.edu
While deep learning has significant breakthroughs in recent years,
there are rising con cerns over how the technology could be misused.
One such concern is over the ability of deep learning models to bypass
mechanisms that are used to prevent unwanted automated access of
websites.Currently, the most popular mechanism for mitigating this type of spam
is Google's reCAPTCHA. While researchers have previously shown that
reCAPTCHA v1---a text recognition task--and reCAPTCHA v3---a
zero-user-interaction, behind-the-scenes tracker--- can be
consistently bypassed with deep learning models, reCAPTCHA v2 has
proven to be a more difficult challenge. To verify a human user,
reCAPTCHA v2 presents a task where one must select all images that
satisfy a certain prompt. For example, in Figure 1, the user is asked
to select all images that contain traffic lights in them.In this paper, we explore how deep learning could be used to crack the
security of reCAPTCHA v2.75
Figure 1: reCAPTCHA v2
2 Data Gathering
To create our model, we first required a large dataset of solved
reCAPTCHA v2 examples. Due to the lack of a public dataset, we
(actually, just David) volunteered to collect the necessary training
data. While doing so, David also maintained a journal documenting the
process. To improve the transparency and reproducibility of our
methods, we have included select journal entries below.Day 1
I decided to skip class today to focus on gathering training data for
the model. My goal is solve at least a thousand reCAPTCHAs a day. This
should allow me to reach the target size of ten thousand in a week and
a half.To find a renewable source of reCAPTCHAs to solve, I decided to simply
entice Google to give them to me. The first step was to change my
Gmail password to something I wouldn't remember. I opened the reset
password page, closed my eyes, and haphazardly mashed my keyboard.
Now, when I try to access my email, I am76