A new Polargraph SD case. It took a couple of tries, since the bottom part is just a little too long to fit on a Thing-o-Matic’s bed. I had to slice it into two pieces, and my first attempt caused it to be about 2mm too short.
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AI Challenge Entries Closed
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The entry period for the AI Challenge has closed, and they’re doing the final games. I really haven’t updated my bot in two weeks or so. I had some more ideas to do and optimizations, but I never got around to it. In the end, it looks like I’ll be the 2nd place Clojure bot as one of the other that was more actively developed took a giant leap above me. I’ll be happy to try again next year.
Winning Games
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My bot is doing surprisingly well. It is currently the highest rated Clojure bot, and is ranked a little below 850th out of ~5700. I’m a hair under the 15th percentile.
AI Design Flaw
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My bot has played two more games, and legitimately won both. But while I was thinking last night I came up with a bad realization: since my bot runs from enemy ants, it would run away from protecting the hills. This could allow a single ant to capture a hill that had lots of ants around it.
This hasn’t happened yet. I’d better put a fix in before it does.
Kitten Model on Thingiverse
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Plywood Air Filter on Thingiverse
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I’ve got a new object up on Thingiverse, it’s my Plywood Air Filter. I’ve been using it for a while now and it’s much better than my hacked together duct tape and cardboard mess that it replaced.
Don’t use FileMerge with 25mb files
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How long does it take to use OS X’s FileMerge on a pair of 25mb files? Somewhere between 20m and 2 hours. I left my computer after 20m since it wasn’t done, but it was when I came back. At this point, I’m convinced I don’t need to worry about using PyPy with Skeinforge, so I can start saving time. Now if I could only quadruple the speed of my ToM…
Starting Over
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I’m starting my blog over. Content to come soon.