Re: Google AI Challenge at U of Waterloo

2010-03-04 Thread Forthminder
Google AI Challenge post-mortem report by the winner is at http://a1k0n.net/blah/archives/2010/03/index.html#e2010-03-04T14_00_21.txt Mentifex -- http://cyborg.blogspot.com http://code.google.com/p/mindforth/wiki/AiHasBeenSolved -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Google AI Challenge at U of Waterloo

2010-02-06 Thread Man-wai Chang to The Door (24000bps)
Eh? Just about every interesting programming challenge is mostly about algorithm selection. Try some Project Euler for example. Everyone back then has abused the "programming" word to meant doing everything (algorithms (system analysis & design), data structures, coding, testing, documentati

Re: Google AI Challenge at U of Waterloo

2010-02-06 Thread Paul Rubin
"Man-wai Chang to The Door (24000bps)" writes: > It's definitely *not* exactly a programming challenge, but algorithm > challenge. > A programming (only) challenge should only require the players to > write codes to implement an algorithm. Eh? Just about every interesting programming challenge i

Re: Google AI Challenge at U of Waterloo

2010-02-06 Thread Jeff Cameron
On Feb 5, 11:18 pm, "Man-wai Chang to The Door (24000bps)" wrote: > On 06-Feb-10 08:02, Forthminder wrote: > > > Contest runs from 4 February to 26 February 2010. > >http://csclub.uwaterloo.ca/contest/problem_description.php > > Bonne Chance! > > It's definitely *not* exactly a programming challen

Re: Google AI Challenge at U of Waterloo

2010-02-06 Thread John Nagle
Forthminder wrote: ... Ignore. Well-known nut. See "http://www.nothingisreal.com/mentifex_faq.html"; John Nagle -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Google AI Challenge at U of Waterloo

2010-02-06 Thread Andrej Mitrovic
Sweet, something to keep my brain busy for the next couple of weeks. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Google AI Challenge at U of Waterloo

2010-02-06 Thread Forthminder
Contest runs from 4 February to 26 February 2010. You may choose a programming language, such as Java, C++, Python, Ruby or Haskell. See details at http://csclub.uwaterloo.ca/contest/problem_description.php Bonne Chance! Mentifex -- http://www.scn.org/~mentifex/mindforth.txt -- http://mail.py

Re: Google AI Challenge at U of Waterloo

2010-02-06 Thread Man-wai Chang to The Door (24000bps)
Hello, this is Jeff Cameron, the organizer of the Google AI Challenge. I'm glad to see all this interest in our humble little contest. I wish you all the best of luck, and encourage everyone to try their hand at writing an AI for Tron! www.ai-contest.com Someone please dumb the Tron ROM from the

Re: Google AI Challenge at U of Waterloo

2010-02-05 Thread Man-wai Chang to The Door (24000bps)
On 06-Feb-10 08:02, Forthminder wrote: Contest runs from 4 February to 26 February 2010. http://csclub.uwaterloo.ca/contest/problem_description.php Bonne Chance! It's definitely *not* exactly a programming challenge, but algorithm challenge. A programming (only) challenge should only require

Re: Google AI Challenge at U of Waterloo

2010-02-05 Thread **Group User**
On Feb 6, 7:02 am, Forthminder wrote: > Contest runs from 4 February to 26 February 2010. > > You may choose a programming language, such as > Java, C++, Python, Ruby or Haskell. > > See details at > > http://csclub.uwaterloo.ca/contest/problem_description.php > > Bonne Chance! > > Mentifex > --ht