Ants is over!

[zaphod]

Another round of thanks to all the contest organizers. As an AI noob, and a programmer with average skills, it was a great learning experience for me. And ofcourse, people like a1k0n, Memetix, Darhuuk have earned special cheers for discussing wonderful ideas even before the finals! I can't wait for the next challenge! Though I don't have much hope of finishing in the top 500 in this context, I'll try my best next time.

Apart from the AI concepts, I also learnt that slower (interpreted) languages should be used only in the first 2 weeks for experimentation. If you stick to them because of ease of development, you might end up regretting later when speed matters!

EDIT: I don't want to get involved in arguments of the kind "your algorithm is more important than choice of language". I know that makes sense, but for good combat in this contest, I believe every millisecond saved counts. And as Frantic as pointed out below, some language limitations are hard to overcome.

[Frantic]

[Tortortor]

you should just take a look into top 100-200 and see how good "php/lua/fortran/etc./" algorithm works much better as tonns of bad "C/C++/Java/etc." bots

p.s. sorry for all "C/C++/Java/etc." "php/lua/fortran/etc./" developers in advance

[Frantic]

[Tortortor]

I (as PHP bot owner) should agree with you: same logic in different languages can get totally different rank (mostly from performance)

[amstan]

[erdman]

[alexandrekow]

Something strange appears with my Skill calculation.

Both times it goes up, but the resulting skill number is less than the starting skill number.

Is this normal?



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