Mrz 12
17
Bookkeeping
The SourceForge monthly update made me aware of this nice project called: GnuCash. It seems to have a very intuitive interface and works fine with saving on mapped network drives. Hopefully it will help me keep track of my expenses and feed my nerdish need for statistics.
Dez 11
23
Starcraft 2 Upgrade Analysis
The official Unit Tester Map allows you to create two unit compositions and let them attack each other to determine the outcome without any micro management involved. I did this for two standard tier one Protoss and Terran armies composed of around 10 Stalkers and 10 Zealots vs around 16 Marines and 12 Marauders. Both armies cost roughly 2000 minerals. I changed the armor and weapons upgrades and took five data points for each armor/weapons upgrade configuration and plotted the mean value. You can see the result below. It clearly shows that Protoss armor rocks in this type of setup. I guess this is because the Terran army needs more shots to focus down the Zealots before they can target the fragile but damage dealing Stalkers.
Dez 11
12
Blizzard Cup
- Overview: http://wiki.teamliquid.net/starcraft2/Blizzard_Cup
- Stream: http://www.teamliquid.net/video/streams/GOMTV
- Finals am Samstag
- Timezone: Korean Standard Time = CET + 8h (d.h. wenns bei uns 12 Uhr ist, dann isses bei denen 20 Uhr)
Dez 11
8
World Cyber Games (WCG)
Die World Cyber Games stehen an und werden dieses Jahr in Busan Metropolitan City, Süd Korea ausgetragen. Süd Korea hat eine Zeitverschiebung von 8h, d.h. wenns bei uns 12:00 Uhr is, dann isses bei denen 20:00 Uhr. Das Event läuft vom 08.12. bis zum 11.12., also von heute bis Sonntag. Eine Liste der Spieler die sich für die WCG qualifiziert haben findet ihr auf: http://wiki.teamliquid.net/starcraft2/World_Cyber_Games_2011
Die Gruppenphase läuft derzeit. Die einzelnen Gruppen findet ihr unter: http://wiki.teamliquid.net/starcraft2/World_Cyber_Games_2011/Main_Tournament
Hier mittlerweile auch der WCG-Zeitplan:
Stream: http://www.wcg.com/renew/tv/tv_real.asp
Leider konnte ich noch keinen genauen Zeitplan finden, da die WCG Seite total überlastet zu sein scheint. Werde aber die Infos posten sobald ich sie habe.
Dez 11
6
Minecraft 1.0
Der Server wurde auf die Releaseversion Minecraft 1.0 umgestellt und läuft somit nicht mehr im Beta-Betrieb. Mal sehen wie stabil er läuft und ob wir dementsprechend nochmal auf bukkit wechseln müssen oder ob die vanilla Version mittlerweile stabil genug ist.
Dez 11
3
NASL Grand Final
NASL steht für North American Star League. Das große Finale der Season 2 findet an diesem Wochenende statt. Das Finale wird in Ontario, California ausgetragen. Wenns bei uns also 18 Uhr ist, ists bei denen erst 10 Uhr morgens. Hier alle wichtigen Links zu dem Thema:
- Zeitplan (Pacific Standard Time (PST) = Central European Time (CET) – 8:00h)
- Stream
- Main bracket
- Überblick
Nov 11
26
Starcraft meets Science
The Cognitive Science Group of the Simon Fraser University (SFU, at Vancouver, CA) is investigating Starcraft 2 as a scientific subject! They state the following mission objective on their homepage:
A study on the acquisition of attentional skills and expertise in StarCraft 2©.
We believe that the analysis of StarCraft 2 performance has the potential to be very valuable to the study of attention, learning, and cognition. Our initial project involves using replay files and survey questions to characterize differences across all skill levels, from bronze to professional. We plan to examine how players of different leagues access relevant game information by analysing their SC2 replay submissions and a level-of-play-questionnaire in StarCraft 2.
Starcraft really is science 
Nov 11
20
SAPTCHA vs CAPTCHA
CAPTCHA stands for Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart. The test is commonly implemented as blurry, distorted or noisy pictures of words that are most of the time hard to read for a computer and can be possibly read by a human. Once the user has identified the word, he or she may enter it in the appropriate form field to gain access to the specific website. This method is supposed to prevent spambots from registering on websites and spamming links to external sites or placing words to improve the Google rating of specific industries.
In practice however, CAPTCHA is not a perfect solution as there are ways of breaking it, like optical character recognition, redirecting the CAPTCHAs to humans on other websites or simply paying people to solve CAPTCHAs. A possible remedy are SAPTCHAs, which stands for Semi Automatic Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart. The idea is to provide a more accessible, lightweight and unique way of telling humans and machines apart. Instead of having humans read distorted pictures, the SAPTCHA software might simply ask a question which is hard to answer for a machine but easy to answer for a human. An example could be telling cats and dogs apart in a picture or how many seas there are on earth.
Personally this topic is interesting for me, since i receive a lot of spam on my algorithm database project. A SAPTCHA implementation for the MediaWiki software is provided by the extension QuestyCaptcha. It offers administrators the ability to add an extra form field to the user creation dialogue, which can be used to answer a predefined question. In my case, the question is: “What is the topic of this website?”. This question will be easy to answer for humans and would probably require specific programming for a machine to handle it. For now i chose the question to be very easy to see if this is enough to stop spam. Hopefully it will 
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- Stream: http://pro.majorleaguegaming.com/live/quad_view
- Champions Bracket: http://s3.majorleaguegaming.com/2011-providence-starcraft2-champ.html
- Open Bracket: http://s3.majorleaguegaming.com/2011-providence-starcraft2-open.html
- Schedule: http://www.majorleaguegaming.com/schedule
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Okt 11
14
New DnB track
Whenever i hear the sound of my Scarbee Mark I electric piano VSTi, i can’t keep myself from producing something This time it turned out to be a DnB track… Other instruments besides the Mark I were my EZDrummer Jazz Set VSTi and my Fender Jazz Bass. Check it out!