I haven't done much python this year, but had a great time at Europython and the London dojo. As I speak, a couple of days using jython for websphere automation awaits...
On 21 December 2010 12:22, Matthew Turnbull <mattcturnb...@googlemail.com>wrote: > For a while now I've been interested in sports / games 'ratings' > systems. Some years back I collected results from weekly football > games and wanted a way to score individual players from team score > results (the teams change each week) - ultimately I wanted to help > pick balanced teams). This year I set up a company table tennis ladder > on racquetladder.com but was desperately unhappy with the ranking > system - the winner / loser simply switch (or stick) ranks, which is > terribly unstable (although very transparent). So I made a python / > numpy implementation of Rémi Coulom's 'Whole History Rating' > algorithm, and experimented a little with creating 'interactive' SVG > plots of the results. > > Then I took part in the Planetwars "Google" AI challenge, and chose to > use Python, thinking it would be dominated by clever heuristics rather > than brute calculation. Top UK Python entry (*bow*) but, sadly, other > languages dominated. Interestingly, they used Coulom's 'Bayeselo' to > rate the entries, about which there was much griping, but nobody could > think of a better way to do it -- I think generally people > underestimated just how powerful Bayeselo is, and besides, those > people were all over on kaggle.com where they concurrently had a > 'design a better Elo' competition! So, for me it was an interestingly > coincidental year. > > Oh, I also went to a London Dojo -- it was a lot of fun and I hope to > go again. I don't really have any projects on the go at the moment so > 2011 is a blank slate. Definitely want to win the next ai challenge :) > > Nice to have a chance to talk about these things. > Matt > _______________________________________________ > python-uk mailing list > python-uk@python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-uk >
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