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Robocode Rumble: Tips From the Champs
Jason writes "The Robocode Rumble is over and the winners have been declared. Who are they and what are the secrets of their success? Dana Barrow talks shop with some of the mad scientists behind the winning Javabots and with Mat Nelson, who reveals what he has planned for Robocode 2.0. You can get the free download here."
I have the shits!!
FP!!!
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Jehovah's Witnesses: The happiest people in the world
Unless they are cat owners
In which case, if they want to follow the word of God, they should "pelt him with stones, and he must die".
I'm not making this up! This isn't a satire site I linked to. This is a real JW advising other's to kill their cats, or face burning in hell forever.
Robocode is great. Its a neat exercise to get people intersted in OOP and Java.
Being a Java programmer, I've also looked at C# and seen what MS did to improve the language (lets face it, C# took the good things of Java, and fixed the bad things in Java).
The C# version of robocode?
Terrarium, and damn is it fun (I just wish you could change the stats of your offspring to 'adapt' instead of/in addition to just passing off AI)!
Good quote, too many chars. Seriously, the slashdot 120 char limit sucks!
What enrages European assholes so much is the fact that Americans just don't give a fuck or care about the fact they hate us. In American eyes French, German, Dutch and English pussies are mere insects we could crush whenever we wanted to. Their hatred grows from a deep sense of envy and fear of our power. So just get over it European jerkoffs, you are insignificant and not even worthy of Americans scorn. You pukes are just gutless cowards. I am tired of America saving you goddamn pigs.
Go back to GBS
Just heard the sad news on the radio that TV cook Alton Brown was found dead in his San Francisco home. He apparantly died of a stroke after having anal sex with his gay lover and 10 Mexican boys. Kiddie porn was strewn around the house. It is a sad day for the /. community that such a great loss has occurred. Th illegal immigrant Mexican boys were being treated at a local hospital for bloody torn rectums. The gay lover who is dying of AIDS is being charged with SODOMY.
Where's the code for Robo-Carmen Electra?
Does anyone know about any other competitions, or similar AI programming games? I did a couple classes in college where you designed real-time and turned based AIs for games, and it was a lot of fun. RTSes interest me the most... I don't suppose there's an open starcraft clone or something with a good AI interface?
"Probably the toughest time in anyone's life is when you have to murder a loved one because they're the devil." -Philips
I just heard on the radio that Legendary American Football player Johnny Unitas is dead. The famous Lithuanian-American was a member of the Pro Football HGall of Fame.
The Robocode Rumble is over and the winners have been declared. Who are they and what are the secrets of their success?
When the slashdotting slows, I expect something like:
Champ: "Well, I write a lot of viruses. The skillsets are very similar actually. You set it loose and it needs self-contained smarts to destroy anything and everything without getting caught or stopped."
Table-ized A.I.
I'm sorry, but some things seem to be VERY similar to Robot Battle, a pretty old game with the same concept: www.robotbattle.com
Not trying to troll.. just wanted to point out.
No matter how good you try to code it in Java, a similar c++ version will run SO MUCH faster... And so when you're doing AI (which tends to test the border of what's computationally possible), I walk away with a dirty feeling if I try to do, let's say a SAT solver in Java.
I don't have a lot of java experience, but I tried this to try to get that experience. Unfortunately, no matter what cool stuff I put in my bot, the tutorial bots beat it on a regular basis. :(
I think one of the problems was that the way I wrote it, it could fire more shots than average. Unfortunately, you lose a bit of energy with every shot, so all my missed shots led to my bot typically just shooting until a single shot by an opponent killed it. D'oh
Cogito ergo sum in Slashdot.
So much for big iron, snicker.
The difference between Canada and the USA is that in Canada healthcare is a right and gun ownership is a privilege.
Mrs goatse
I love reading wack religious literature, so I gave it a quick read. These are the best parts:
(talking about the garden of eden snake)
Indeed, modern studies of classification of cats, while not necessarily being reliable as they may be based on the discredited 'theory' of evolution, strongly associate felines with serpents (despite some external differences in physiology and morphology, which confuse those who do not study these matters deeply)
Additionally, cats practice many unclean habits not befitting a Christian household:...licking inappropriate body areas on their own bodies...vocal and blatant promiscuity (unknown to any other species, all others being endowed with Godly chastity and decorum) and widespread sexual misconduct without the benefit or sanctity of holy matrimony, even orgiastic practices, substance abuse of catnip (an intoxicating herb) which produces conditions akin to drunkenness.
You can't make up stuff funnier than that. And remember, kids, an invisible man in the sky is looking down on you and doesn't want you to touch yourself.
anyone got a robocode bot version wich moves the game/bots along with playback of a mp3 file?
Today on "Learning the difference between FYAD and Slashdot"...
He's simply trying to start a dialogue so that we can all move forward towards peace and reconciliation.
Get it? Get it?
That "joke" is just as funy each time I read it as it was the first time!
There's a similar AI robotic combat program Tech tv did a story on called MelBotWars.
It's basically a plugin for maya which uses the MEL(Maya Embedded Language) programming language for coding your bot's AI, and uses the rigidBody dynamics in Maya for the physics.
Also, take note that you only need the Maya personal learning edition to use it, which is free.
The most beautiful girl in the world.
My GAWD she has the most lucious brown hair and brown eyes ever.
Wow.
Germany Worried It Becoming a Land of Dunces
Thu Sep 12,10:47 AM ET
BERLIN (Reuters) - Germany, the land of poets and thinkers, is worried it is becoming a country of dunces.
Its creaking universities, where students commonly study into their late twenties, and old-fashioned schools, where children are only taught for half the day, are failing to provide industry with the skills it needs.
Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder has been trading blame for poor standards with rival Edmund Stoiber, who cites his home state of Bavaria's strong performance on education as a reason to vote out the government in a general election on September 22.
Focusing their minds is an international study by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) published late last year, which ranked German secondary schools 25th out of 32 countries, disproving the country's long-held belief it had one of the best education systems in the world.
The report, the Program for International Student Assessment (PISA) study, showed schools in most European Union ( news - web sites) countries were better than in Germany and that more than 20 percent of teenagers in German schools were nearly illiterate.
Teachers are skeptical that with an election looming, the study will bring about anything other than political posturing.
"Education comes in and out of vogue with politicians. When it's in, they all think they should say something, but they actually change nothing," said Ulrich Kopitzki, headmaster of the Ernst-Reuter-Oberschule secondary school in central Berlin.
ANTI AUTHORITARIAN
Teachers and education experts say Germany's scattered and complex system, where schooling is the responsibility of individual states rather than the federal government, needs fundamental reform, above all to give it a national standard that is monitored and enforced.
One obstacle to necessary reform lies in the country's Nazi past, which has created endemic resistance to any change that gives the state more control over people's lives.
"The consequences of the Nazi era play a much deeper role than people realize in the whole debate," said Ralph Fleischhauer, an Education Ministry spokesman for the state of North Rhine-Westphalia, one of the worst performers in a domestic study of regional standards.
"People have a mistrust of authority and of too much state control. This anti-authoritarian feeling traditionally meant people would rather keep their kids in the family than send them to school for the full day, for example."
The PISA study made for unwelcome reading in a country whose lack of raw materials means it sets great store by having a skilled labor force to help it remain industrially competitive.
"We Germans have no natural resources, our wealth lies in our skill," former German chancellor Helmut Kohl told a recent conservative campaign rally in Berlin.
TOP MARKS FOR STOIBER
Education climbed up the political agenda early on in the election campaign when a second PISA study found huge differences in standards between regions governed by Schroeder's Social Democrats, and those run by the opposition conservatives.
The conservatives leapt on the results, making much of the fact that Bavaria, of which Stoiber is the premier, scored highest in reading, math and science.
Schroeder questioned the competence of regional authorities in dictating education policy, calling for the establishment of a national curriculum, and accusing Stoiber of "state egoism on the backs of pupils."
"Competition is the heart of federalism," Stoiber struck back. "Whoever centralizes educational policy carries federalism to its grave."
Most education experts and teachers agree the political hot air ahead of the election is clouding the issue.
"The debate about which state did better is ridiculous. They have lost the real policy alternatives. They should look abroad at Japan, Finland or Canada. That perspective has been completely lost," said Andreas Schleicher of the OECD.
"What is fundamentally lacking is a shift to a system oriented on results. There is no system of guiding schools by their outcome."
The OECD study suggested Germany's school system needed a number of reforms, including more full-day schooling, a national curriculum, and German language lessons from an earlier age for non native-speakers.
Immediately after the second PISA study, Schroeder's center-left government proposed increasing the number of full-day schools, pledging $3.9 billion to create 10,000 extra schools by 2007 if it wins the election.
But worries about rising unemployment and the worst floods in more than a century stole the political spotlight away from schooling, as newspaper front pages instead filled with pictures of media-savvy politicians wading through muddy water.
According to the Electoral Research Group, which publishes weekly opinion polls ahead of the election, only four percent of the electorate consider education to be one of the two most important issues in the election battle.
"What would have happened if in the 19th century people had said we will not change the production mechanism, we will just work faster? It is the same attitude. Everyone wants to improve but no-one wants to discuss reform," Schleicher said [yahoo.com]
You were looking at guys weren't you, you hippy piece of cocksmoking shit.
vell?
I think the robocontest story was interesting, but only about 10% of the posts attached to this story have content, and the other 90% are like "woooooooooo, wooooooooooo look at ME, FIRST POST!!! I'm a big fucking idiot! Yeeeeeeehhhhhhhhaaaaaaaaaaaaa."
Word. It's about time we bombed those euro commie hippy bastards back into their caves.
Now they should show *this* instead of BattleBots on Comedy Central.
What's going on slashdot sucks ass no one makes any sense i hope that no one si reading this but you are because you are a fucktard. Please go and do the following for me join a convent dressed up like a woman then when they are all sleeping take pictures of their bums that would be pretty sweet hahahah. Anhyways who has seen the television lately their is so much stuff on that about crack and dirty women and bombs its pretty cool i was eveon on a television show it was caalleed jerry springer i just got me computer over at teh walmarty and it had the linux so i came here is this normal?! I dont understand why can't we blow up california they need to fall into the ocean soon they suck. ahha hear come sa dnot tordauyolaa ldklsfjall
Why not do it genetically? I'm not an expert on the subject, but the way I've always thought is that it's clearly possible to "breed" programs to do a particular task, as long as the task is very "ratable", i.e., you have a separate algorithm which will evaluate how well the program did. In this case, the "arena" program which pits the bots against each other serves very well. Generate random Java bytecode, run it as a bot, look at the points scored. Breed well-performing bots with each other by combining bytecode together in various fashions. Repeat several billion times...
Obviously, the first N iterations wouldn't be syntactically correct bytecode (though I would suggest that you hard-code the 0xCAFEBABE prefix) and would probably throw exceptions almost immediately (resulting in disqualification). Eventually, however, you'd get a program which would at least not produce errors, even if it did nothing productive like moving and shooting.
What's the best way to combine two bytecode programs to produce offspring which are similar-yet-different, and have the best chance of doing well? You would obviously want a chance of mutation (possibly reducing over time).
Better or worse than what? You "lack decent evidence" that you are comparing OOP to anything in particular.
Why oh why oh why oh why oh why oh why oh why oh why. I I I I I I I I I I hate slashdot i just want it to die. I hate you all too you flaming piles of poo. Please return to lunch, or your cock I shall punch. Faggots. Open Source is GAY. Linux is FOR HIPPIES. Only fucking morons read slashdot. Thank god none of you will ever breed.
I'm no expert on the subject but last I know there were some GL bindings for Java. It would be cool to have the robots battle in 3D space (with some real physics thrown in). Maybe in Robocode version 20.
Blender And Linux Fan
comedy central just sent out a memo...
robocode rumble is officially cancelled.
MARIJUANA, SHROOMS, X: ONLINE?! - E
Guard gets paid for letting sufferers of chlamydia rape street dogs in Turkey
11/09/2002 KurdishMedia.com - By Robin Kurd
London (KurdishMedia.com) 11 September 2002: In Izmir, the third biggest city of Turkey, the Animal's Safe House in Ortakoy has been shut down and its premises demolished.
3 months ago the Animal's Safe House in Ortakoy, Izmir, made the headlines in Turkey when 6 dogs in the safe house were raped by several people who had broken into the premises. This time the Safe House has become news material as allegations have been made that several dogs have been raped for the reason that "it cures chlamydia".
The Turkish daily Hurriyet reported today that the guard responsible for the animals in the safe house "hired" the dogs out for people with chlamydia.
2500 signatures have been collected by animal rights activists for the closure of the safe house and has been forwarded to the local council. 90 of the dogs from the safe house have been transferred to the Buyuksehir Council Animal Safe House.
The animal rights activist Sevtap Henrich, who is responsible of the Animal Safe House in Ortakoy, said they had established that the dogs had been raped:
"This is really an incredible incident. Unfortunately we are the victims of ignorance and lack of education. This kind of activity will not cure chlamydia, in fact it can cause a lot more diseases", Henrich added.
After hearing rumours that dogs were being raped in the safe house because it was believed that it would cure clamydia, Chairman of the Animal Lovers and Protectors' Association, Suna+ Esen Akaturk, said that she was against the demolition of the premises of the Animal Safe House:
"I am aware of the fact that this incident is disgusting. But unfortunately these kinds of incidents are the bleeding wounds of our country. Recently in Narlidere, a similar incident took place. We have taken our precautions here. I am searching for other reasons behind the demolition of the safe house. We built and paid for the safe house with money from our own pockets. They demolished our work just in two hours. We were trying to keep the safe house alive despite all the impossibilities", she said.
Another Robots Battle prog (http://realtimebattle.sourceforge.net/)
The biggest advantage of this one is that you can program your robot in any langages by interacting with stdin/stdout. Another good thing is realtime. And like it's written in C, it's quite portable
Some robots of Robocode have parameters optimized by genetic evolution.
I hope to see better robots with new technologies like Animat with sensor/actuator, Evolutionnary Neural Network, Multi-Agent (for team battle)
Open Starcraft clone? Well, the closest that I can think of is Free Craft. Right now it is being based on Warcraft, and I don't know about the AI currently, but I'm sure they would be glad to have some more help.
And so we go, on with our lives
We know the truth, but prefer lies
Lies are simple, simple is bliss
This is a topic I've been interested in for a while, but I've yet to see any good information to start me off...
credo quia absurdum
YoU Will Assimilated... CLICK ME, /a
Minimum requirements
To install Dotnetfx.exe, you must have one of the following operating systems with Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.01 or later installed on your computer:
* Microsoft® Windows® 98
* Microsoft Windows 98 Second Edition
* Microsoft Windows Millennium Edition (Windows Me)
* Microsoft Windows NT® 4 (Workstation or Server) with Service Pack 6a
* Microsoft Windows 2000 (Professional, Server, or Advanced Server) with the latest Windows Service Pack and critical updates available from the Microsoft Security Web site
* Microsoft Windows XP (Home or Professional)
* Microsoft Windows .NET Server family
Caution If you install Dotnefx.exe on Windows .NET Server Beta 3, you will break the version of the .NET Framework that is installed with the operating system. Windows .NET Server Beta 3 installs version 1.0.3215 of the .NET Framework. If you install a later version of the .NET Framework, version 1.0.3215 will be broken. If you install a later version, you can run and use the later version. However, you will not be able to use version 1.0.3215, even after uninstalling the later version.
Recommended software
Depending on your application requirements, you might also need to install one or more of the following:
* MDAC 2.6 or later for data access, available from the Universal Data Access Web site.
* Core WMI for Windows instrumentation, available from the Code Center.
Note If the recommended software requirements are not met, Setup will not block installation or warn you of their absence.
Recommended server software
Depending on your application requirements, you might also need the following server software:
* MDAC 2.7 for data on the server, available at the Universal Data Access Web site.
* Internet Information Services (IIS) on the server for Windows 2000, Windows XP (Professional), and Windows .NET Server. This is required for using ASP.NET applications.
Hardware Requirements
Table 5. Minimum hardware requirements
Scenario CPU Required RAM Required
Client Pentium 90 MHz* 32 MB**
Server Pentium 133 MHz* 128 MB**
* Or the minimum CPU required to run the operating system, whichever is higher.
** Or the minimum RAM required to run the operating system, whichever is higher.
Table 6. Recommended hardware
Scenario CPU Recommended RAM Recommended
Client Pentium 90 MHz or faster 96 MB or higher
Server Pentium 133 MHz or faster 256 MB or higher ..
wonder how it quick it goes on a minimum configuration PC...
the coolest part of genetic AI. It comes up with ways to win that normal people wouldn't even think of
On that note, I can't help but mention this story.
I used to code robots for RoboWar (for the Mac) in the early 90's. It was great fun. It's so old you need the wayback machine to see a page:
RoboWar
bp
Why does Slashdot have a big square advert for MS VisualStudio.net of all things between the synopsis and the comments?
Kind of distracting.
Jonathan
Hey, all you FortKnox fans: Are you tired of befriending FortKnox and not having that friendship reciprocated? Sick of being just a "fan?" Hop on his journal and demand that FortKnox keep his Friends/Fans in complete equity.
Rumblecode creator Mat Nelson: "Today, Java is fast, though many people still do not realize it. Computer speed has increased at an amazing rate, JVMs are faster than ever, Java has matured, and we even have hardware-accelerated graphics. Java is ready for the client now, and I hope Robocode can help to prove it."
c-hack.com |
Hi
If anyone's interested, here is a description of Fermat's movement algorithm described more clearly along with other silly questions. This is the original set of answers I submitted to them.
And if you're even more interested, visit Robocode Repository for all the test bots and related information you will ever need.
Arun Kishore
[about to sleep...]
blah blah blah, blah blah blah blah.
CORE WARS, devised in the 60's, played in the mid 80's, this was what you did!
Now the sadness: I had both corewars and robo war for my mac plus. Guess which one I wrote bots for? That's right! NEITHER.
Is there anything worse than a lazy geek?!
In the future, I would want to not be isolated from my friends in the Space Station.
Doesn't any body remember core wars?
Boson has very pretty looking screenshots but has no AI yet, so you could try to write some for them. If you do, try to make it modular so people can easily write their own AI and get them to compete.
Freecraft are advertising for some much needed artists to help them, but look good otherwise.
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If you laid all the MicroSoft users in the world end to end around the equator, 2/3 of them would drown.