Engineyard Challenge Python Code
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Engineyard Challenge Python Code
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Re: Engineyard Challenge Python Code
#2Here's a first pass at a python implementation for the Engineyard Challenge (http://www.engineyard.com/blog/2009/programming-contest-win-...).
Note that it doesn't do any random chars at the end of the string and doesn't change the case of the words.
Re: Engineyard Challenge Python Code
#3Ahh, I see that you're generating an entirely new random string each iteration. Interesting.
I've done mine in Pike, which will be faster (though not as fast as C).
Re: Engineyard Challenge Python Code
#4Ahh, I see that you're generating an entirely new random string each iteration. Interesting. I've done mine in Pike, which will be faster (though not as fast as C). http://github.com/jamesotron/HashChallenge/tree/master
I've started mine in erlang. I'm going to run 10 dollars worth of ec2 time and see how far I get.
Re: Engineyard Challenge Python Code
#5Ahh, I see that you're generating an entirely new random string each iteration. Interesting. I've done mine in Pike, which will be faster (though not as fast as C). http://github.com/jamesotron/HashChallenge/tree/master
I've started mine in erlang. I'm going to run 10 dollars worth of ec2 time and see how far I get.
I've got mine in C. I probably won't run it, just wrote it for fun. Honestly, if you were thinking of spending a cent on this competition, I think you'd get a better ROI buying a SuperLOTTO ticket.
Re: Engineyard Challenge Python Code
#6Theoretically I'm having around 500 CPUs with 3gHz each and 2000GB RAM at my disposal. Maybe I should give it a try.
Hint: University Cluster =)
Anyway thanks for the code examples, I'm pretty sure I can learn something from them.
Re: Engineyard Challenge Python Code
#7Earlier quoted context omitted.
I've started mine in erlang. I'm going to run 10 dollars worth of ec2 time and see how far I get.
I've got mine in C. I probably won't run it, just wrote it for fun. Honestly, if you were thinking of spending a cent on this competition, I think you'd get a better ROI buying a SuperLOTTO ticket.
Lotto tickets aren't nearly as much fun as coding, so what's another 10 bucks.
Personally I'd run through a thousand bucks of computer time to play around with something or test a hunch before considering a lotto ticket.
Lotto tickets are taxes for people that are not good in mathematics.
Re: Engineyard Challenge Python Code
#8Earlier quoted context omitted.
I've got mine in C. I probably won't run it, just wrote it for fun. Honestly, if you were thinking of spending a cent on this competition, I think you'd get a better ROI buying a SuperLOTTO ticket.
Lotto tickets aren't nearly as much fun as coding, so what's another 10 bucks. Personally I'd run through a thousand bucks of computer time to play around with something or test a hunch before considering a lotto ticket. Lotto tickets are taxes for people that are not good in mathematics.
or they just play for fun
Re: Engineyard Challenge Python Code
#9Is this supposed to run on Unladen Swallow? Or does the GIL not come into play here?
Re: Engineyard Challenge Python Code
#10I dont wish to be, umm, mean. But I know of at least 3 companies (ours included) that could run this in a few minutes.
this is my code (using mighty, our python based cluster service):
import mighty
word_generator = mighty.word_generator("wordlist",(mighty.APPEND_NUMERALS,5))
phrase_generator = mighty.word_concentate(word_generator,' ')
job = mighty.match_to_hash('PROVIDEDHASH',mighty.SHA1,phrase_generator.iterate_all)
job.priority = mighty.CRITICAL
mighty.submit_job(job)
EDIT: added CRITICAL as the priority or it takes longer :)
EDIT: ok so the code is a bit the wrong side of the tracks. It wouldnt take long to refactor it :)