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Programming

Submission + - Natural language Javascript events

psydeshow writes: "We're in the middle of an amazing Javascript renaissance right now. Unbelievable magic happening, like Ryan Johnson's Event.Behavior.

"A domain specific language for defining events in your JavaScript applications. It approximates how one would describe an event in the english language and allows you to extend it with your own verbs, conditions and events."
So you can write stuff like "show('state_field').when('country').is('United States');", instead of fooling around with connecting and listening and callbacks. Nice!"
Robotics

Another Step Towards the Driverless Car 224

jtogel writes "At Essex, we have for some time been working on automatically learning how to race cars in simulation. It turns out that a combination of evolutionary algorithms and neural networks can learn how to beat all humans in racing games, and also come up with some quite interesting, novel behaviours, which might one day make their way into commercial racing games. While this is simulation, the race is now on for the real thing — we are setting up a competition for AI developers, where the goal is to win a race between model cars on real tracks. As the cars will be around half a meter long, the cost of participating will be a fraction of that for the famous DARPA Grand Challenge, whereas the challenges will be similar in terms of computer vision and AI."

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