Going to write a simple bot when I'm home from work. Who else?
I will
How long is this going to run?
Vindinium is an Artificial Intelligence programming challenge
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#13"You are welcome to run several instances of your bots at the same time, and more generally to use any measure you see fit to achieve leaderboard domination. Fight!"
Couldn't this be cheesed pretty easily by flooding them with bots working in tandem - pushing to have the highest scoring ones win when they're pitted against each other.
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#14"You are welcome to run several instances of your bots at the same time, and more generally to use any measure you see fit to achieve leaderboard domination. Fight!" Couldn't this be cheesed pretty easily by flooding them with bots working in tandem - pushing to have the highest scoring ones win when they're pitted against each other.
If it works the way I expect it to, I think all it would do is push the whole group of tandem bots down. The cheesing wouldn't make them score better against other user's bots.
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#15Past discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8183392
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#16I 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.
Also having the code run on players' computers means there's no way to stop cheating by having a human player providing some of the intelligence.