Timeline for Keep your distance on a circle
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| Apr 9, 2015 at 15:16 | comment | added | KSFT | @ASCIIThenANSI Python 2 will definitely work, but I'm not sure about Python 3. | |
| Apr 9, 2015 at 14:51 | comment | added | ASCIIThenANSI | By 'Python', do you mean Python 2, Python 3, or both? | |
| Feb 10, 2015 at 20:03 | comment | added | TheNumberOne | I find it amusing that my answer has only 1 upvote. I think I wouldn't it upvote either. :) | |
| Feb 9, 2015 at 5:17 | comment | added | Logic Knight | The latest run seems to prove that camping is the best solution. Unlike most KOTH challenges, this one rewards being predictable. Rewarding predictability will mean the results will be, errr, predictable. Including previous numbers will just motivate campers to slowly (and predictably) move slightly each turn. | |
| Feb 8, 2015 at 16:45 | history | edited | KSFT | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Feb 8, 2015 at 16:01 | answer | added | KSFT | timeline score: 2 | |
| Feb 8, 2015 at 15:36 | comment | added | Logic Knight | I am no expert on the rules here, but it is fine with me. I have added (non competitive) answers to many of my challenges, and nobody has complained. | |
| Feb 7, 2015 at 2:32 | comment | added | KSFT | Am I allowed to add my own answer? | |
| Feb 7, 2015 at 0:29 | answer | added | Jmac | timeline score: 2 | |
| Feb 3, 2015 at 6:13 | comment | added | KSFT | Why the downvote? | |
| Feb 3, 2015 at 4:03 | comment | added | KSFT | @CarpetPython/TheBestOne Should we use just one previous round or all of them? If we use just one round, what about the first round? If we use all previous rounds, should scores be multiplied in earlier rounds to compensate for the higher scores in later rounds because there are more points? | |
| Feb 3, 2015 at 3:58 | comment | added | KSFT | @TheBestOne Wow | |
| Feb 3, 2015 at 3:57 | comment | added | KSFT | @CarpetPython I had an idea about how to do that, actually. What if scores hare calculated based on distsance to numbers chosen in previous rounds, too? | |
| Feb 3, 2015 at 3:57 | comment | added | TheNumberOne | @CarpetPython A simple change would be to compute the distance between the points from last around in addition to the points from this round. | |
| Feb 3, 2015 at 3:55 | comment | added | TheNumberOne | @KFST A toroid is equivalent to a rectangle with wrap around its edges. I expect they would. | |
| Feb 3, 2015 at 3:28 | comment | added | Logic Knight | I suspect all puzzles using this idea will suffer from the same problem. The fixed point solutions will win. Predictors will stay away from the fixed points and crash into each other, ensuring the fixed points win. We would need a rule change to reward movement. | |
| Feb 3, 2015 at 3:19 | comment | added | KSFT | @TheBestOne Ooh, I like that idea. What other shapes would work? Would these be closed as duplicates? | |
| Feb 3, 2015 at 2:12 | comment | added | TheNumberOne | @KennyTM How about on a toroid? The distance function would be much simpler. | |
| Feb 2, 2015 at 22:22 | history | edited | KSFT | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Feb 2, 2015 at 18:27 | comment | added | Sanchises | Until when will the challenge run? I.e., a certain date | |
| Feb 2, 2015 at 16:25 | history | edited | KSFT | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Feb 2, 2015 at 5:02 | history | edited | KSFT | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Feb 2, 2015 at 3:58 | history | edited | KSFT | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Feb 2, 2015 at 3:07 | comment | added | Logic Knight | Mmm. It seems that a constant number wins again. I am curious as to why that is. Could we see the 600 output numbers in the question, or on github or pastebin? I suspect some of our predictors have bugs. Possibly mine :-( | |
| Feb 1, 2015 at 21:56 | history | edited | KSFT | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Feb 1, 2015 at 20:41 | answer | added | histocrat | timeline score: 1 | |
| Feb 1, 2015 at 19:57 | history | edited | KSFT | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Feb 1, 2015 at 18:45 | history | edited | KSFT | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Feb 1, 2015 at 17:59 | comment | added | KSFT | @KennyTM That's a good idea. I might post that if I ever get the controller for this one working. | |
| Feb 1, 2015 at 17:36 | comment | added | kennytm | We need "Keep your distance on a sphere" for the next question :). | |
| Feb 1, 2015 at 5:37 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/#!/StackCodeGolf/status/561760143902527488 | ||
| Feb 1, 2015 at 5:14 | comment | added | KSFT | @CarpetPython What I did was really long, but basically the same as that. I don't know Java very well, but I'm pretty sure it'll work right. | |
| Feb 1, 2015 at 5:12 | comment | added | Logic Knight |
You have probably already thought of this, but the controller's distance calculation needs to change to something like sum(sqrt(min(1000-abs(x-y), abs(x-y))) for y in others) to implement the wrap-around feature.
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| Feb 1, 2015 at 4:06 | answer | added | Maltysen | timeline score: 2 | |
| Feb 1, 2015 at 3:22 | comment | added | Logic Knight | @KSFT I am new to this leaderboard business. I would guess once per day or more often if more entries are added or changed (if your time allows). It should be up to you. | |
| Feb 1, 2015 at 3:18 | history | edited | KSFT | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Feb 1, 2015 at 3:18 | comment | added | KSFT | @CarpetPython Should I run the control program with all of the submissions each time a new answer is submitted? | |
| Feb 1, 2015 at 2:41 | answer | added | Logic Knight | timeline score: 3 | |
| Feb 1, 2015 at 2:31 | comment | added | Logic Knight | The credit for suggesting the challenge should go to @Geobits. I just agreed with him. | |
| Feb 1, 2015 at 2:28 | comment | added | Logic Knight | Thanks KSFT for organising this improved challenge. I have been AFK. As I understand it, the control program calls each answer program each round with the history of the previous calls (but I have not read the code). This may mean that you need to install a variety of obscure compilers and interpreters on your machine. You should also make sure the code does not do anything hostile before you run it. The output of the control program should provide the information for a leader board. | |
| Jan 31, 2015 at 21:32 | answer | added | feersum | timeline score: 1 | |
| Jan 31, 2015 at 21:07 | history | edited | KSFT | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jan 31, 2015 at 21:06 | comment | added | randomra | As the original question had a major loophole I wouldn't close this one. It might worth a meta topic to discuss if "fixing" a question is allowed if it considerably improves it's value. Unrelated but what if the answer would be also different thanks to the modification? | |
| Jan 31, 2015 at 21:06 | answer | added | Optimizer | timeline score: 2 | |
| Jan 31, 2015 at 21:05 | comment | added | KSFT | I want to do this like the original, but I don't know how it worked, exactly. Did the person who posted the challenge run the control program to find the scores? | |
| Jan 31, 2015 at 21:03 | answer | added | TheNumberOne | timeline score: 1 | |
| Jan 31, 2015 at 20:14 | comment | added | KSFT | @Optimizer A few people in the comments seemed to think this was a good idea. Answers from the original will work very differently here, so I don't think it's a duplicate. | |
| Jan 31, 2015 at 20:13 | comment | added | Optimizer | Do we really want a question this similar ? | |
| Jan 31, 2015 at 19:55 | history | asked | KSFT | CC BY-SA 3.0 |