Programming contest [Rev Physics masters]

[David Kwinter]

So who's our physics master? I have experience backtesting & optimizing 
systems once I've programmed them - but defining the environment 
following their specs looks extremely challenging.

I'm quite sure that how you manage a brute force backtest of the race 
track problem can produce best results when designed just right. That 
said I would've been lost on the first 90% of the problem.

So who here could've nailed down the 2003 problem?  
http://www.dtek.chalmers.se/groups/icfpcontest/Rotmos/problem.pdf



On Friday, April 30, 2004, at 09:12 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote:

> On 4/30/04 9:07 PM, David Kwinter wrote:
>
>> So long as the tasks don't involve compatibility issues, or are 
>> judged solely on speed, Revolution could do well. I'd help a team for 
>> sure, sounds like fun.
>
> There are descriptions of previous contests in the History section of 
> the web site if you want an idea of what to expect. All entries are 
> submitted as text files. Here is last year's contest:
>
> http://www.dtek.chalmers.se/groups/icfpcontest/task.html
>
> This required you to drive a simulated car around some simulated test 
> tracks. The submission itself is a text dump of the commands given to 
> the car. They then ran the trace through their own simulator, which 
> reads the contents of the submitted entry. They do want to see the 
> code, but they don't care what language it is in and the quality of 
> the code does not affect who wins; the success of the code does.
>
> This year's contest will be similar in that the entry will consist of 
> a text file that solves whatever task they post. In last year's 
> contest speed did count, but only because the goal was to make the car 
> move as fast as possible. The speed would be due to the quality of the 
> commands rather than the state of any particular computer.
>
> There's more stuff in the History section. MIT started the contest 
> some years ago. It looks like they've done a nice job eliminating 
> things that are computer and language dependent, and focusing on the 
> programming rather than the execution.
>
>
>> On Friday, April 30, 2004, at 07:44 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote:
>>> This sounds like something one of us (or a group of us) here might 
>>> want to do:
>>>
>>> http://www.cis.upenn.edu/proj/plclub/contest/
>>>
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