Work on my checkers program milhouse
has stalled a bit: I have a problem in the transposition tables that is fighting against my endgame database attempt, and it’s subtle enough that I haven’t had time to work it out. I’ve been relaxing by reading some more about other board games, and have begun to read a bit about attempts at games with very high branching factor like Go and Hex. I frankly don’t have the brain power for Go, so I thought I might think about hex a bit more. It’s just about as simple a game as you can get, and yet has deep strategy that seems more intuitive to me. Some useful information is stored on the HexWiki.
Daily Archives: 5/20/2008
Spying on Computer Monitors Off Reflective Objects
I’ve bitched before about CSI and their use of “video enhancement” to read displays and the like using low resolution security cameras reflecting off objects. It’s interesting to see what is actually possible using this basic idea though. Link courtesy of Bruce Schneier’s security blog:
Schneier on Security: Spying on Computer Monitors Off Reflective Objects