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Archive for February, 2008
Ramblings on violence in games
It all started with a blog post Violent video games and kids of a 13-year old girl’s school essay on violence and games. A very good and informed piece of writing. I always find it interesting that the critique of violence in games almost always comes from people who don’t play computer games themselves and [...]
I want to program games, why do I need Mathematics or Physics ?
Most people are pretty easy to convince, that they need mathematics, but they mostly underestimate what kind of mathematics they need. At the moment there are some people around Leo Dorst, who develop a framework from geometric algebra, which could make things easier to program. But the mathematical core is something pretty new. It looks [...]
More teaching …
This time, physics. We did a lot of exercises. And I told some anecdotes from the days when I was a string theorist, to catch their focus again. People are always less interested in the mundane everyday Newton stuff, they want to know about stars ( happily I actually did astrophysics in my master course) [...]
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