[HN Gopher] Google Research Football
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       Google Research Football
        
       Author : a_imho
       Score  : 68 points
       Date   : 2020-04-28 05:13 UTC (1 days ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (research-football.dev)
 (TXT) w3m dump (research-football.dev)
        
       | dang wrote:
       | p
        
         | rvz wrote:
         | ???
        
           | claar wrote:
           | Flagging a dang comment was the highlight of my day. :p
        
       | csense wrote:
       | Looks more like soccer to me.
        
         | Torwald wrote:
         | soccer is shorthand for association football.
        
         | toyg wrote:
         | This is "football" in most parts of the world - or the
         | latinized futebol / futbol.
        
       | nefitty wrote:
       | " Google Research Football Environment is a novel Reinforcement
       | Learning environment where agents aim to master the world's most
       | popular sport -- football."
        
       | jstanley wrote:
       | I'd be interested to watch some video from some of the games, if
       | anyone knows if there is any?
        
         | claar wrote:
         | Here's a trailer video:
         | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F8DcgFDT9sc
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         | Here's an actual game:
         | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f7KiAPtAPwg
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         | More games at https://research-football.dev/11vs11/ranking
        
       | sduff wrote:
       | RoboCup was founded almost 23 years ago. While the physical robot
       | leagues often garner most attention, there has always existed a
       | simulation league, of both 2d and 3d varieties.
       | https://ssim.robocup.org/
        
         | claar wrote:
         | Yeah, but in RoboCup 3D the robots fall all over themselves and
         | can barely play: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7T1ElDs5eSQ -
         | RoboCup seems focused more on simulating robot movement than
         | the game itself.
         | 
         | This new Google competition appears to be more about ML and
         | playing the game, judging from videos:
         | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F8DcgFDT9sc
        
       | pvg wrote:
       | The mentioned blog post is mislinked in the article but it's been
       | on HN before with a bit of discussion. It has some video and a
       | better overview.
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       | https://ai.googleblog.com/2019/06/introducing-google-researc...
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       | Thread at:
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       | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20135726
        
       | jedberg wrote:
       | Google's answer to Amazon's DeepRacer?
        
         | tpetry wrote:
         | Deep Racer extended to mario kart ,,combat" features would be a
         | really interesting topic. So they had to learn deiving and
         | combating and everything is a tradeoff between these two
         | functionalities: Maybe driving a little bit worse will result
         | in a better position if you can E.g. better target your
         | opponents with the shells.
        
       | sulam wrote:
       | Nitpick, but it recurs:
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       | s/challange/challenge/g
        
         | jdm2212 wrote:
         | FWIW this is from Zurich-based folks so they're presumably not
         | native English speakers... and challenge is not exactly
         | phonetic :)
        
       | vesinisa wrote:
       | Interesting - this goal is scored by hacking the offside rule:
       | https://youtu.be/c3dv8s2SR0c?t=54
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       | The scoring player was not in offside because they are on their
       | own half of the field when the goalie passes the ball.
        
         | toyg wrote:
         | That's hardly new - every 8-yo central defender in half-decent
         | teams is taught never to cross the midfield line precisely for
         | that sort of situation.
        
           | dfgasdgsd wrote:
           | Two recent(ish) examples in real life:
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           | Salah vs Manchester United:
           | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=STjxoGgFIzk
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           | Torres vs Barcelona:
           | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lKOXBLTsu3s
        
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