Circuit Breaker
king-of-the-hill
In this game, each entry is a switch that can be either on or off each turn. The switches are positioned in a loop. Each turn, a switch is powered, and electricity flows through all adjacent "on" switches. An "off" switch is not powered, even if it is in the cho...
I got it on the third read. It's not complex, just weirdly phrased
the basic premise is guessing how the other players will set their switches, with the goal of you being either the last + or the first - on a path full of +s from the P for the turn
I'm not sure how much strategy there will be, though...
if your position is being powered, you have to be on to even possibly get a point
if you're adjacent to the power position, then being off definitely gets you a point, and on maybe gets you a point, so of course you choose off
and if both of those players choose off, then no one else gets anything
inline styles are the devil. working on an ExtJS SPA at the minute... spent 30 minutes trying to format a div because of all the inline/nested css bulls**t that ext injects into them. the chrome dev tool for computed style scrolls for about 2 screens
meanwhile the rest of the company is off paintballing while I'm manning the fort.
funny to see some of them... lemming bot is kicking some peoples asses. I need to dissect pony to understand why it's doing so consistently well. there's also the totally random aspect that messing up some people (markov, supermarkov, smarterbot) and causing them to switch places on subsequent runs
@EoinCampbell I was gonna suggest "Steady Rock - Best Deterministic Submission", but any submission that uses its opponent's move is technically non-deterministic, too
Thought I had finally cracked the parallelization thing last night, but turns out the Q, QQ, Cobra entries are actually using the data history directory and those bots started exploded with write concurrency issues. need to figure out how to ensure that only one bot instance is running at any given time.
@EoinCampbell Could you do something by splitting the entries into 16 pods? first you run all the pods against themselves (two runs of 8 in parallel). then you do every division of the 16 pods into 8 pairs. for each such division, run the pairs in parallel. for each pair run all duels in the cross-product of the two pods.
I'm using the TPL library for .net, so instead of just handing the parallel excutor a bog standard IEnumerable<MATCH>, I should be able to write a smarter enumerator which internally tracks players who are actively participating, and only yield return;the next match they're involved in once the current match ends... that means matches including faster players which are further down the list should get out in front of slower matches instead of blocking the pump.
@Trimsty multi-thread is usually fine.... it when you get into messiness with idempotency and trying to lock on things out of process (file access, message queues, concurrency between different processes) where things get messy. company I work for does a lot of work on MSAzure. I've learned more in the last 6 months about concurrency trying to build a highly horizontally scalable infrastructure than in the previous 12 years
ok... just realised it's 11:20am and as a result of no-one else being here today, I've done Sweet F**k all this morning o_O. better go do some work. laters
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I was thinking that might preclude similar contests where the side is determined for you (by the OP, randomness, some rules, whatever)... but then who would want to participate in a team-based challenge where he can't even pick the team?
this might be an idea for that maze-generation KotH proposal that's floating around
the idea was that everyone writes a maze generator and a maze solver. every solver solves each maze, and then you get some overall score for how hard your maze is and how well you solved the others.
now you could actually separate this into two code-challenges
one for writing a maze solver and one for writing a maze generator
the catch is that each code-challenge's benchmark set is the other challenge's participants' outputs
@ProgramFOX I'm not even sure more than 5 people in Germany have heard of it to be honest... but it seems to have a nostalgic and small but solid fan base online
@overactor yeah, I'd probably take a similar approach as I had in vector racing
here's the relevant paragraph:
"Your bot may take half a second to respond in each single turn. For turns that take longer, you will have a time budget (per track) of target/2 seconds. Every time a turn takes longer than half a second, the additional time will be subtracted from your time budget. When your time budget hits zero the current race will be aborted."
alternatively for the tetris case I might leave out the time budget and cut the bot off after the turn's time limit take it as "don't make a move"
it's not trivial anyway, because your calculation might depend on your current position, so you need to figure out how to reuse the results from the previous step
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code-challenge? popularity-contest?
Would you welcome this?
The question is quite simple to state, but I'm raising it here in the sandbox first because I want to know how people would feel about producing code that will actually be used elsewhe...
@MartinBüttner The only problem I see is that not picking teams could be a valid game style. Example: Each entry is paired up with each other entry to coop a game, best pair wins.
I'm sure there may be other valid ideas, just the first I could think of.
Something as simple as [team-challenge] could work, but it's rather vague and boring :D
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Jon Ericson asked, Does the tag synonym suggestion system work?
The answer, unfortunately, is no.
Tag Synonyms were introduced in August 2010:
It’s been clear for a very long time now that we needed some kind of tag synonym system, one that the community itself could main...
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code-challenge? popularity-contest?
Would you welcome this?
The question is quite simple to state, but I'm raising it here in the sandbox first because I want to know how people would feel about producing code that will actually be used elsewhe...
