@Doorknob a) Thanks, b) Ah that's unfortunate. So we just repost our challenges in the new sandbox? :-/
@Sparr thanks :D ... and good luck beating it, I never intended to be on top of that leaderboard ^^... it was just a really quick a stab at a half-decent strategy
@Doorknob I just went through all the drawing questions. There was only one exclusively for ASCII art and one where ASCII art was a substantial component. I retagged the former and only added the tag to the latter. There are several that allow graphical output or ASCII art. I think that's fine though and we could just change the graphical-output excerpt as I suggested yesterday, to only redirect to ascii-art if the challenge is purely ASCII art.
Alternatively, we could write that if ASCII art is allowed, too, both tags should be used.
Btw, while looking through drawing, I found this tag: source-art. It's only been used once, but I'm pretty sure there should be another few questions where it's applicable. Should I remove it or add look for other questions and use it where applicable?
@MartinBüttner your dominoes have eaten the last 3 days of my life, I've written a program which lets you draw domino layouts, why have you done this to me
@VisualMelon you could put it up on the webs somewhere (like gist.github.com) and just link to it, so it doesn't clutter the post, but people who are interested can still get it
in fact, providing something like this could greatly increase the popularity of Domino Circuits, if people can just try solving these things by hand with a few clicks.
@ProgramFOX that would include space complexity, and after giving it some thought I don't think these should be thrown into the same tag, simply because that would still mean that the tag itself does not imply a specific winning criterion without the OP stating what he actually wants to go by
Domino Circuits
code-challenge
It is possible to build simple logic gates from dominoes. Hence, by combining these or otherwise, arbitrary binary functions can be computed with dominoes.
But of course, everyone who has played with dominoes (except Robin Paul Weijers) has experienced the disapp...
Underwater Survival Game
king-of-the-hill
Lions and bears are extinct, the wolves dominate the fauna on land. But in the depths of the sea the battle for survival rages on.
This is the spiritual sequel to Rainbolt's Survival Game, with a few additions. The arena is the sea and hence three-dime...
that would be awesome. I think if there is already an answer that shows that it is possible, that might be quite encouraging... because then other people could focus on compressing solutions if they can see that the baseline case is doable.
@MartinBüttner I might not be able to read, but I don't think it's quite clear how the thing is tested - do you initially replace all the left-most | with D ?
Use the whole alphabet in your code
Your code has to use the whole alphabet (abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz) in your code (uppercase or lowercase does not matter) and you have to use it in the right order. You can use as many characters between each of those (which can be characters of the alphabet...
@Doorknob Do we retag closed questions? codegolf.stackexchange.com/q/11530/8478 This one says something about complexity... but the scoring is so weird, if I retag it at all, I might just remove the fastest-code and be done with it.
And I think you cannot do very much with a parameterless constructor. You will have to make the private one with arenaSize and direction as parameters, and the public ones have arenaSize, direction and the point indicators as arguments.
In both public constructors, you can call the private constructor on the first line.
public Plane(int arenaSize, Direction direction, int x, int y, int z) { this.arenaSize = arenaSize; this.position = new Point3D(x, y, z); alive = position.isInArena(arenaSize); this.direction = direction; }
public Plane(int arenaSize, Direction direction, Point3D position) { Plane(arenaSize, direction, position.x, position.y, position.z); }
@overactor You can use Rainbolt's approach for his Wolf KotH contest. He stored all participating classes in an array, so if someone wants to test, they just have to adjust one file.
Did you add the Test class, and kept the other class? That's something I don't like about Java: every class has to be in another file, otherwise you get an error.
Hmm. I'm not sure if 1000 turns is enough. Your board looks like it will be pretty sparse as far as contestants go (~1000 cells per animal), so it might take some time for them to find each other on a regular basis to fight/die.
Dogfight (Work in progress, looking for help)
Sandbox note:
Since no one has offered hosting this challenge I've started writing some code for it, I don't think I could host it the way I envisioned it so if I do this, it'll be java only. The advantage is that there will be a lot of boilerplate c...
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Unless you're too busy being on holidays of course
@overactor I can write a wrapper for you in Java that will call other entries, but you would have to modify your requirements slightly.
Basically, the contestants need to include a command that can be used to run their entry. Like python MySubmission.py or ruby MySubmission.rb
If you wanted your life to be easy, you could just download compilers for Java. Python, Ruby, and C++ and limit it to those four languages. I feel like that would satisfy most people
I've got an idea for a challenge. It's team-based, but not koth-style with a winner. Competitors would choose a team and add their bot to it, and one team wins (say red/blue). My hope is that people would choose the weaker team to help even it out, but that seems naive. How could I make it cooperative in this way without being unbalanced?
Well... I don't mean there would be an actual minority on the field. Each team would have 180 competitors, divided up by how many entries on that team (remainder some default-bot).
My concern is that once one side starts winning, every entry will want to be on that team so they "win", even if their bot doesn't contribute/improve the result.
that could be odd as well though... my bot could be really good in the beginning because it relies on having a lot of instances, but then there are suddenly 89 other entries and now I only get two bots
Yea.... I wanted to avoid that, allowing people to pick (say if they saw a weakness in a certain bot, they might choose the opposite team). If I can't find a way, I might make it alternating rather than random.
I mean... you could make the winner the best submission from the best team... so if a player joins the losing team (and manages to turn the tides) he likely has fewer contestants in that team than in the already winning one
what would make for even more interesting dynamics is to let the trophy go the best player in the losing team :D
Well... depending on how long one trial takes, you could redo the trial once for each bot (without that bot) and see which bot had the greatest positive impact
that might become infeasible for a large number of bots or time intensive trials though
My rough estimate shows it might be time-intensive.
The number of bots doesn't matter as much, since the field is set to 360 total agents, but there would probably be many turns and calls to each of those agents.
Not sure exactly how long it would take, but redoing it n times every time sounds like a bit of work :D
@MartinBüttner The goal of closing is to improve the question later, so yes, do everything you can to improve closed questions
@MartinBüttner Alright, tags are officially synonyms!
@MartinBüttner Uh, I guess. I'm not exactly the local sandbox expert :P
@Sparr Alright, I still have to go through all the new comments and submissions on the post, so I may not have seen your most recent comments. But if you want to talk about it here in chat just ping me.
@Doorknob the comments in question are regarding clearing the data directory between tournaments. the RPSLV contest specifies that the data directory will get cleared before each tournament. Caveman Duels does not. This is a good thing for my markov bot when I start making it learn from previous matches, but a bad thing for people who want to track behavior just within one tournament.
also, running multiple threads is probably hurting a lot of bots that rely on storing mid-match data, but that's a different issue
Domino Circuits
code-challenge
It is possible to build simple logic gates from dominoes. Hence, by combining these or otherwise, arbitrary binary functions can be computed with dominoes.
But of course, everyone who has played with dominoes (except Robin Paul Weijers) has experienced the disapp...
Use the whole alphabet in your code
Your code has to use the whole alphabet (abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz) in your code (uppercase or lowercase does not matter) and you have to use it in the right order. You can use as many characters between each of those (which can be characters of the alphabet...
