Let’s try to convince a bunch of particles to behave (at least somewhat) like water.

Source code:
Currently in early access to supporters on Patreon and Ko-Fi, but will be available to everyone from 22nd October.
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Resources:
https://matthias-research.github.io/pages/publications/sca03.pdf
http://www.ligum.umontreal.ca/Clavet-2005-PVFS/pvfs.pdf
https://sph-tutorial.physics-simulation.org/pdf/SPH_Tutorial.pdf
https://web.archive.org/web/20140725014123/https://docs.nvidia.com/cuda/samples/5_Simulations/particles/doc/particles.pdf

Music:
https://github.com/SebLague/Misc-Project-Info/blob/main/Coding-Adventures/Fluid-Sim.txt

Chapters:
0:00 Intro
0:27 Gravity and Collisions
2:31 Smoothed Particles
3:55 Calculating Density
7:53 The Interpolation Equation
11:58 Gradient Calculations
15:38 The Pressure Force
19:19 Trying to Make it Work…
22:05 Optimizing Particle Lookups
26:31 Spatial Grid Code
27:48 Position Predictions
30:32 Mouse Force
33:22 Artificial Viscosity
36:46 Pressure Problems
39:51 Bugs
41:06 Parallel Sorting
43:22 Some Tests and Experiments
44:47 The Third Dimension
47:23 Outro

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Trying to improve an old chess bot by experimenting with various interesting techniques.
You can play (or watch) the bot on lichess: https://lichess.org/@/CodingAdventureBot/playing
This is a sequel to: https://youtu.be/U4ogK0MIzqk

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Source code: https://github.com/SebLague/Chess-Coding-Adventure

A really fun video about various algorithms for playing chess by @tom7:

Music and other credits:
https://github.com/SebLague/Misc-Project-Info/blob/main/Chess-2/Credits.txt

Chapters:
00:00 Intro
00:38 Battle of the Bots
03:18 Maybe Don’t Throw Away the Best Move?
07:13 Transposition Troubles
10:55 Search Extensions
14:01 Refactoring and Recapping
15:51 Tweaking Kings and Pawns
19:35 Bitboards!
23:54 Passed Pawns (and more)
28:32 Magic Bitboards (minus the magic)
34:40 The Magical Part of Magic Bitboards
39:00 Testing and Optimizing Move Generation
41:50 Killers, Reductions, and Repetitions
45:56 Creating a Lichess Bot
49:30 Let’s Play!
54:54 Existential Crisis
55:02 The Bot’s First Game Online
56:12 Can Our Bot Beat Stockfish? (No)
56:59 Rating Speculation
59:28 Outro

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