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There is fairly strong evidence that NLP is not effective: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuro-linguistic_programming#Sc...

If not now, eventually they must be or must have been "doing startups" because all businesses begin as startups. It's in the name, a startup is a company that is just getting start…

Team Fortress 2 and DOTA 2 are the ones I know of. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Team_Fortress_2#Free-to-play http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dota_2#Free-to-play

Most US authors pay only a few cents per delivery. [1] Books with lots of images can become expensive but it seems like the images are likely unnecessarily big for an ebook, and th…

If you want a semi-realistic startup reality tv show to watch right now, try TechStars on Bloomberg Tv: http://www.bloomberg.com/video/75400336/ or Start-Up Junkies: http://www.hul…

That's my plan actually. It should be a lot easier to get going than C or an LLVM backend as others are suggesting.

I think you mean contracts or defensive coding. If someone calls my code wrong they will have to think to test that particular case themselves, which is hard. Unless I've written c…

Huh. You're right. That seems pretty recent, or I didn't notice the switch-over. Thank goodness.

I was a little disappointed that when he talked about Jekyll blogs, he didn't mention Octopress. The default theme looks pretty good, it has a decent set of plugins and the code di…

Yeah. In this competition collaboration was discouraged. That does keep politics/alliance building skills out of the equation at the cost of worse overall final products.

You didn't do too badly this time yourself. 11th place. Looking at what he did, do you see what you could do to improve your bot further?

I actually used this idea from the forums and your post to get 683rd place even though I started on it with 36 hours to go before the deadline. http://aichallenge.org/profile.php?u…

Haha. It didn't say that before, because he hadn't officially won yet. It's actually been propagated from Tron: http://a1k0n.net/2010/03/04/google-ai-postmortem.html

Overall Winner's Code and description of how it works: http://xathis.com/posts/ai-challenge-2011-ants.html

27th place's code and description of how it works: http://forums.aichallenge.org/viewtopic.php?f=24&t=2169&... and profile: http://aichallenge.org/profile.php?user=3845

16th place's description of how their code works: http://www.decompilinglife.com/ and profile: http://aichallenge.org/profile.php?user=4728

11th place's code: https://github.com/a1k0n/ants/tree/master/bot and profile so you can watch how it works in action: http://aichallenge.org/profile.php?user=432

Here are some histograms from before the finals of how different languages and countries did compared to each other: http://imgur.com/a/Li1b4

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