[Icfp04-discuss] Al-Gore-Rhythm team's website & ants

[Detlef Pleiss]

Hi Darin,

both your links to solution-1.ant and solution-2.ant go just to
solution-1.ant. So currently there is no way to see your second solution.

ciao - Det.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Darin Kelkhoff" <darink at sportingnews.com>
To: <icfp04-discuss at lists.seas.upenn.edu>
Sent: Monday, June 07, 2004 11:10 PM
Subject: [Icfp04-discuss] Al-Gore-Rhythm team's website & ants


> Perennial ICFP Programming Contest Team: The Al-Gore-Rhythms present their
> 2004 contest entry web site:
>
> Our 2004 Contest Submission: Mephisto's 5-assed ants.
> http://www.kingsrook.com/icfp/
>
> web site contains:
> - README file, gives overview of strategy & implementation
> - solution-1.ant and solution-2.ant
> - submission.tar.gz
> - JavaDocs from project
> - source tree
> - photos
> - more to come!
>
> a quick overview (and explanation of our name):   we quickly decided that:
>  a) we didn't _want_ to really write a smart program in FSM/assembly like
> language (too much "gimp work", we've no experience in low-level language
> like this, and a non program generated solution seems like a sell out, as
> several teams sold out last year by driving cars by hand)
>  b) we probably weren't smart enough to write ants in that language that
> were good enough to beat people who could write good code in ant language.
>
> with these 2 points in mind, we decided to build our ants using evolution
> seeded by intelligent design -- a genetic (or evolutionary) algorithm that
> would select ants based on the fitness.  these ants were built out of 2-15
> line "functions" that we did end up writing in ant-language (though
through
> java, not by hand).  so now, even if our currently submitted ants aren't
> good enough to win, we can always just let our genetic algo. run a few
more
> days, and eventually a better species will emerge.
>
> oh -- our name -- for south park fans, you'll remember the genetic
engineer
> Mephisto, who proudly built four assed monkeys, mongooses, etc.  we'll,
> we've improved on his technology a bit, and now have 5 asses on our ant's.
>
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