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"You can win 6, 12 or 24 months of membership to AiGameDev.com PREMIUM if you place third, second and first in the contest respectively. We'll also provide any single person team that ranks higher than our official bot three months of AiGameDev.com PLUS — our brand-new part of the site that launched last week." he must be excited. until google puts out non-trivial problem sets and offers non-trivial prizes i'll save…
What about the top ten solutions? http://ai-contest.com/rankings.php
4 Java
3 C++
2 C#
1 Lisp
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I know at least a few people who had bots written in/were prepared to write bots in Clojure. They didn't end up adding support for it, however. I still can't wait for the next contest—wouldn't Pentarow be cool? Or Pente? Anyway, cheers to Waterloo for putting this on again!
A better title: "3 Time Winner of Computer Games Olympiad Wins Yet Another Contest".
Can't believe this Reddit quality comment is getting any upvotes. Google AI Challenge is "Yet Another Contest"? Though you may not be surprised, he is, http://quotenil.com/Planet-Wars-Post-Mortem.html/ .
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Can't believe this Reddit quality comment is getting any upvotes. Google AI Challenge is "Yet Another Contest"? Though you may not be surprised, he is, http://quotenil.com/Planet-Wars-Post-Mortem.html/ .
The point is that he won because he's a great programmer, not because he used Lisp.
Bocsimako is the proof that Lisp is best for AI algorithms Cargo cultism at its finest
It seems that any positive inclination towards lisp is cargo cultism. Gabor Melis is a seriously smart guy, and probably would have kicked ass in any language. That said, I'm going to pull out that phrase next time someone says 'Java/C# is good for Enterprise', or 'C++ is good for video games', or 'C is good for systems programming'. Cargo cultism indeed.
1) "X is good for Y" is very much not the same thing as "X is best for Y"
2) One person having great success at something is not a pattern, and doesn't usually prove a general rule (I'm hedging with 'usually' - I can't think of a counter example but I expect someone else will :-). Common usage, while not a guarantee, is at least a good indicator of fitness - if Java were better for systems programming than C, it's likely (though of course not certain) that we would be saying 'Java is best for systems programming', and have some basis for that claim beyond the success of one person who has already demonstrated competence in the same general area (i.e. the contests previous competition wins).
The headline might better have been "Experienced programmer uses Lisp to win Google AI contest". Correlation vs causation - he didn't win because he knew Lisp, but he did use Lisp in his winning solution, and you can understand that without taking a position on Lisp itself; there are shades of fanboism in some of the comments on this thread.
Bocsimako is the proof that Lisp is best for AI algorithms Cargo cultism at its finest
It seems that any positive inclination towards lisp is cargo cultism. Gabor Melis is a seriously smart guy, and probably would have kicked ass in any language. That said, I'm going to pull out that phrase next time someone says 'Java/C# is good for Enterprise', or 'C++ is good for video games', or 'C is good for systems programming'. Cargo cultism indeed.
Bocsimako is the proof that Lisp is best for AI algorithms Cargo cultism at its finest
It seems that any positive inclination towards lisp is cargo cultism. Gabor Melis is a seriously smart guy, and probably would have kicked ass in any language. That said, I'm going to pull out that phrase next time someone says 'Java/C# is good for Enterprise', or 'C++ is good for video games', or 'C is good for systems programming'. Cargo cultism indeed.
I looked around but couldn't find any obvious place to find the source for the bots used.