Another rambling defense of human behavior on the Allais Paradox

The Allais Paradox is about how 1a and 2a, and correspondingly 1b and 2b, in the below alternatives are equivalent decisions:

1a) receive $24k with certainty
1b) receive $27k with 33/34 chance, 1/34 receive nothing

2a) receive $24k with 34/100 chance, 66/100 receive nothing
2b) receive $27k with 33/100 chance, 67/100 receive nothing

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An hour fighting with play-clj

I spent an hour tonight playing with play-clj, with the end goal being a Pong clone. Unfortunately I distracted myself with how play-clj works in a way I don't like, and got nowhere.

I got started game programming with PyGame, which is a Python wrapper on top of SDL with some extra goodies. I think I've been spoiled by the clean mental model of 2D games that SDL provides, along with the total control over the main loop. But PyGame isn't a game engine, it's not a game "framework". It doesn't give you all that much. I enjoy that level of flexibility, though, and the necessary tradeoffs in what I worry about involved in using a game framework always seem to irritate me. One day I hope I'll find a really nice one, that's nice for both 2D and 3D, and has good Clojure support. Unfortunately, play-clj is not it, for me.

What follows is just my personal notes from when I started to when I stopped. I added/cleaned up a couple things in this after-edit. There's a macro, but that's about it in terms of code. I've got nothing against play-clj after this exercise, I'm sure it's fine if you can tolerate the way it and LibGDX do things. Wonderful even. But it's not for me. (At least play-clj. Potentially someone could write a nice enough wrapper around LibGDX that I'd want it.)

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