Science Some thoughts on Randomness, Determinism, and Dan Barker's "Free Will Explained" Dan Barker sees the problem of free will vs determinism a bit differently, and he details this in his recent book "Free Will Explained". One claim in particular caught my eye, that "free will gains nothing from randomness", and I wanted to untangle that a bit with reference to my own field of study.
gaming Bethesda and their Creation Engine Much of the discussion and criticism of Bethesda has focused on their continued use of this aging game engine dating back to 2011. But I wonder if it should be part of the discussion at all.
game review How To Enjoy Final Fantasy XIII Final Fantasy XIII is not a great game. But for some reason, I really love it. I think there is a great game here. Whether you agree or not, the core part of the game that I think alone makes Final Fantasy 13 worth some of your time. The combat system.
littlegadget LittleGadget Update Dec 2017 I take a look back at the progress for my channel over the last year.
littlegadget What is Cohesion in Video Games? What is cohesion in a video game? Is this a meaningless, contrived term? Or does it capture some deeper design points of video games that 'graphics' and 'level design' do not?
programming 502 Gateway Error running Flask/uWSGI/NGINX on Ubuntu 16.04 If you followed the DigitalOcean guide on Flask/uWSGI/nginx on Ubuntu, you might be getting a 502 error. Here is what worked for me...
game theory My Problems With Game Theory (or why you really need to cite your sources) Ok, this is going to be an ongoing document as I gather research on the topic. For those who don't know, Game Theory (not to be confused with economics or animal behaviour models)
littlegadget LittleGadget Update Feb 2017 Well, it's been half a year. Figure I might as well reflect on how things have been going. What's been going on? Here is my Youtube video count score of new content in
littlegadget Why is my two year old video on Metal Gear still viewed? On August 16, 2015, I released a video about Metal Gear. Since then it has become my most viewed video, currently with 35k views, ~200 comments, and ~400 likes (and ~90 dislikes). It
Zelda Breath of the Wild DLC The ongoing saga of Season Passes continues. Nintendo announced today (Feb 14) that they plan to offer what they call an Expansion Pass at launch for The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the
Nintendo Nintendo Switch Toronto Preview Tour On January 28th, I got a chance to check out the Nintendo Switch at the Preview Tour event in Toronto. It was a fantastic time, and while most of my pictures unfortunately didn't
Science The Digits Behind Touch: NSERC Science, Action! 2017 contest NSERC, a major funding agency in Canada, is holding a video contest—and I entered! It's called Science, Action! and we had to create a short 1-minute video about our research. Now I
littlegadget Dark Souls and Social Interaction - Behind the Scenes Part 2 Part 1 | Conception, Research, Writing Part 2 | Voice Over and Planning Part 3 | Video Editing (coming soon) Well, It's been quite a while since the last behind-the-scenes. Three months, actually—I did that
Science Berenstein-Mandela Effect Explained from the AVGN video So the 2016 Angry Video Game Nerd Halloween episode just came out, and it was one of my favourite yet! I wasn't that big a fan of the Beavis and Butt-Head episode, but
white whale A Brief Flash of Whales Of course, just as I begin to think that the whole Whale thing was a summer-only event, in comes a new pod of whales and quotes. I still think that we won't be
ember.js Markdown in an ember.js app last updated Sept 22/16 I'm trying to build a web app for creating and organizing "cue cards" for research articles. You can find the github repo of my project here:
programming A Web App for managing research paper notes Note Apps seem to have become the "Hello World" for web app tutorials. Not sure how long it's been this way, but I think it's a good place to start for
McMaster The Last of the White Whales Things seemed to slow down, and then stop. edit: just kidding they're back. Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Unfortunately I was off campus most of August and so probably missed a bunch
programming Piano in CSS and HTML When I first started working on the Digitizing Bach app, my first task was to create a Piano menu. It's been a while, but I remember this being tricky to get down. Especially
littlegadget Dark Souls and Social Interaction - Behind the Scenes Part 1 This project has actually been a long time coming. Part 1 | Conception, Research, Writing Part 2 | Voice Over and Planning Part 3 | Video Editing (coming soon) The idea for a Dark Souls video
littlegadget LittleGadget Production Plan 2016 It has been 5 months since my last video on my Youtube Channel, LittleGadget. I'm sad to say that, as far as the channel is concerned, I've nothing to show for that time.
white whale McMaster and the White Whale (Part 2!) This is a continuation of a previous post. You can download all the photos I've taken of these whales here. Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 There is an artist that is still
problem Fixing the Sony Vaio Flip's noisy fan A few years ago I got the 14" Sony Vaio Flip 14 Laptop. It's a great laptop with a lot of functionality, perfect for work, writing notes, and drawing, and really anything
McMaster Have you seen McMaster's White Whale? Have you seen the White Whale? There is an artist going around McMaster campus lately leaving chalk drawings of a White Whale and leaving mysterious notes. This post has been continued here with
Science Communicating Without Language | Dissociating mentalization and speech One of the most unique aspects of being Human are our communicative abilities and complex languages. It is a complicated process, and such has a lot of neural dedication towards it. Through this