[Icfp04-discuss] Can someone beat this.....

[Jens Hauke]

Hi,

We (KaNT) also tryed some GA (used for lightning submission). The ants 
find food, but we did'nt start the GA from scratch. The 150-x.ant's are 
interesting, because they found themself a solution for "home defence" 
with high enemy killing rate after 2 days of evolution! They kill more 
than 50 ants of our final solution (but than still lose).

The ants:
http://www.ipd.uka.de/~hauke/icfp2004/

The language for the handcoded ants:
http://www.ipd.uka.de/~hauma/icfp2004/

I think, we also spent to much time for writing the compiler, the 
simulator and the simulator gui - not enough time left to improve ant 
strategy's.

It's amazing, what is possible in just 72h.

Thanks to the organisers! Great Task!

  Jens
 
  Jin Soo Hwang wrote:
> christian sloma schrieb:
> 
>> I think i know your feelings ;)
>> my GA was finally running at 6 this morning ( 12 hours left)
>> and i havent found any ant that performs better than the random 
>> searching ant given in the task description until now ;((
>> (had to restart severall times, bc of some smaller bugs too, im now in 
>> generation 500+, still trying...)
> 
> *gg* like me. the ants I have submitted was the 20th generation. But now 
> after certain rounds I have ants which collect foods, what a nice 
> suprise. Too late but what a joy. :-)
>