Tag: Tom Murphy VII

Star Wars in Alphabetical Order

Tom Murphy VII, aka Tom7, about whom I’ve posted before, has made a cut of the original Star Wars in which all of the dialogue occurs in alphabetical order. It’s title, obviously, is Arst Arsw.

Research and Development

This blog post exists primarily as a test of my ability to mirror WordPress content to Twitter, which I think I just enabled. But to make it a little more fun, here’s a video of some significantly more interesting testing. Dr. Tom Murphy VII has had the brilliant idea to use lexicographical ordering as a basis for teaching computers to play videogames. The full paper on his work is here, but more fun is his video of algorithmic weirdnesses as a computer gradually learns to play Mario.