mike cook

@mtrc

Royal Academy of Engineering Research Fellow: AI Creativity, Procedural Generation, Automated Game Design. Also . He/They

Queen Mary Univ. London
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Joined February 2009
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    28 Aug 2020

    Getting Started in Automated Game Design - a tutorial about the past, present and future of using AI to design games, as well as discussions about labour, creativity, society, and practical lessons from 10 years of making things that make things. 💜 🎥

    The text 'Getting Started in Automated Game Design' next to a picture of me, surrounded by various characters from research projects, as well as a painting of Rembrandt and UK politician Peter Mandelson poking his head over the corner of the image.
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    5 hours ago

    Finally got a chance to dig into 'A Narrowing Of AI Research?' by Klinger, and Stathoulopoulos - it's a fantastic paper about why diversity of ideas in research is vital, and how AI research may be narrowing due to corporate competition.

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  3. 4 hours ago

    Been walking past this magnolia tree (almost) every day for the past few weeks. Spring is good.

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  4. 5 hours ago

    There are so many good bits to pull out of the introduction and literature review alone, a lot of fascinating studies about the different incentives that guide researchers and private labs, and the very real consequences they have for the whole of society. Great read.

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  5. 5 hours ago

    Finally got a chance to dig into 'A Narrowing Of AI Research?' by Klinger, and Stathoulopoulos - it's a fantastic paper about why diversity of ideas in research is vital, and how AI research may be narrowing due to corporate competition.

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  7. Mar 22

    Is there anything stopping people from publishing reviews of their own work online? I've often thought this might be useful for various reasons, especially helping new students. I can't think of a reason why it wouldn't be okay, but I can imagine people maybe being uncomfortable?

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  8. Mar 22

    Incredibly, even this huge effort is stymied by DOTA 2 itself - you need to play *thirty* regular games of DOTA 2 before you can download a custom game, meaning you can't play this tutorial as soon as you install the game. They're hoping to get Valve to bypass this.

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  9. Mar 22

    I've not had a chance to look at it yet, but I'm quite impressed at the DOTA 2 community banding together to fund, design, test and translate a DOTA 2 tutorial all on their own. It's bizarre this was never done officially, properly.

    ITS DONE! The Community Tutorial Project is LIVE and ready for public playtesting! We have 3 days to get the entire community's feedback before the anime launches so GO OUT THERE AND GET UR FRIENDS WHO NEVER PLAYED DOTA TO SLAM IT!
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    Mar 22

    Guardian homepage this morning will make a great case study for future media studies classes - a masterclass in manufacturing consent. Look at the state of it.

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    Mar 19

    Might replace student grades with photos like these when I mark assignments in the future...

    videogame review ratings, power play, magazine (1990)
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    Mar 21

    please remember not to retweet images from bristol tonight where you can see protesters faces

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    Mar 21

    Not asking for advice. This is an important thread on the structural problems of and how they need to fix those issues before editors like me, Mar, and our students can successfully add important information to articles.

    My Women in Computing History class students are improving some history of computing pages this week. And so many of their well-thought-out and useful edits are getting reverted. One student added a quote and reference from Janet Abbate’s award-winning book Recoding Gender...
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    Mar 21

    Yesterday the demoscene was accepted as UNESCO cultural heritage. That's a great success for the recognition of digital art and digital culture in general! But what is the demoscene? A thread:

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  15. Mar 21

    me, watching someone stand butt naked in the town square hurling horse dung at people and bellowing obscenities: boy i really wish i knew what to make of this guy

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  16. Mar 21

    here's a little secret for people who think codes of conduct hurt reputations/discourse/etc: the things we all do are what shape those things. the code of conduct just helps communities negotiate together and decide how to respond.

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  17. Mar 21

    oh really? well if codes of conduct are so great, how come there are repercussions for me personally? explain that???

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    Mar 21

    I need a few more people to participate in my dissertation experiment about level design techniques in open-world games. If you would like to help me out please shoot me a DM 🎮 (Must have experience playing Assassin‘s Creed and no level designers who work in the industry, sorry)

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    Mar 20

    Systematic review of 2,212 papers using ML in COVID diagnostic studies: "None of the models identified are of potential clinical use due to methodological flaws and/or underlying biases." Not good. More on "Frankenstein" training data, via

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  20. Mar 20

    I, too, am sad that Neurips has survived in the virtual realm despite its successful banishment from the physical plane of existence.

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    Mar 19

    happy anniversary to miette and miette only since her owner is in jail

    me, lightly touching miette with the side of my foot: miette move out of the way please so I don’t trip on you miette, her eyes enormous: you KICK miette? you kick her body like the football? oh! oh! jail for mother! jail for mother for One Thousand Years!!!!
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