David's Mumblings

Impostor Caught at Stanford

category: General
This is mind-boggling. Some girl pretended to be a Stanford student for seven months before being caught; she "squatted" in dorm rooms, lounges etc. and nobody figured it out until the girl told one lie too many to the wrong person who asked some questions.

It is just amazing that this was even possible. This is a story that will come up in staff training for years to come, I suspect. :-)

Here's the Stanford Daily article.

It goes to show how much you can get away with if you act like you belong. It's like a team of thieves who stole a grand piano (!!!!) from one of the dorms by claiming to be tuning it, and they just rolled it out of the front door... ^ TOP

Posted on 05/24/07 at 05:43:23 by dchaley (David Haley)
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Tic Tac Toe game network

category: General Game Playing
In the GGP project we represent and communicate games in the Game Description Language, a logical language that very compactly describes games. Due to the semantics and restrictions we have chosen, the class of games we can represent is precisely the class representable by finite state machines. However, the finite state machine for even a simple game like Tic Tac Toe is very large, and would be impractical to store in memory much less transmit to players. Read More → ^ TOP

Posted on 05/17/07 at 00:02:42 by dchaley (David Haley)
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