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Vindinium is an Artificial Intelligence programming challenge

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Re: Vindinium is an Artificial Intelligence programming challenge

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Post by sixhobbits »

I haven't tried this yet, but based on similar challenges I've participated I'm surprised by the fact that your bot moves by calling an http endpoint. Considering the 1 second move limit, I image it's difficult to time your moves right to guarantee that they arrive on time.

Re: Vindinium is an Artificial Intelligence programming challenge

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Post by LoneWolf »

sixhobbits wrote: post #3

I haven't tried this yet, but based on similar challenges I've participated I'm surprised by the fact that your bot moves by calling an http endpoint. Considering the 1 second move limit, I image it's difficult to time your moves right to guarantee that they arrive on time.

I feel the same, I have participated in aichallenge.org before and everything was run server-side, we had a 1 second move limit too, I have not run any starter yet to try it out but seems like using HTTP will have big issues with timing, I would prefer something that connects to a socket and keeps the connection up, would reduce some of the latency of establishing a connection.

Some people created a tcp server for the Ants one that allowed that: https://github.com/berak/ants-tcp I don't remember much of the details, since it was nearly 5 years ago, but it was an awesome thing to participate in.

Re: Vindinium is an Artificial Intelligence programming challenge

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Post by fahadkhan »

LoneWolf wrote: post #4
sixhobbits wrote: post #3

I haven't tried this yet, but based on similar challenges I've participated I'm surprised by the fact that your bot moves by calling an http endpoint. Considering the 1 second move limit, I image it's difficult to time your moves right to guarantee that they arrive on time.

I feel the same, I have participated in aichallenge.org before and everything was run server-side, we had a 1 second move limit too, I have not run any starter yet to try it out but seems like using HTTP will have big issues with timing, I would prefer something that connects to a socket and keeps the connection up, would reduce some of the latency of establishing a connection. Some people created a tcp server for th…

Does the server not respect `Connection: keep-alive` ?

Re: Vindinium is an Artificial Intelligence programming challenge

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Post by joelthelion »

sixhobbits wrote: post #3

I haven't tried this yet, but based on similar challenges I've participated I'm surprised by the fact that your bot moves by calling an http endpoint. Considering the 1 second move limit, I image it's difficult to time your moves right to guarantee that they arrive on time.

If you have an HTTP session with keep-alive, it works well enough. I played Vindinium for a while and only very seldom experienced timeouts unrelated to my code.
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