Google AI challenge: planet war. Lisp won.

[Ian]

On Dec 2, 5:59 pm, tivrfoa <lescoutinh... at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Dec 2, 3:06 pm, Xah Lee <xah... at gmail.com> wrote:
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> > discovered this rather late.
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> > Google has a AI Challenge: planet wars.http://ai-contest.com/index.php
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> > it started sometimes 2 months ago and ended first this month.
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> > the winner is Gábor Melis, with his code written in lisp.
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> > Congrats lispers!
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> > Gábor wrote a blog about it herehttp://quotenil.com/Planet-Wars-Post-Mortem.html
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> > (not sure if this has been mentioned here but quick search didn't find
> > it)
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> >  Xah ∑http://xahlee.org/☄
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> this game is very cool and it's hard .. arghhttp://www.galcon.com/flash/play.php

For what it's worth, I recollect that the original GalCon was written
in Python as part of one of the PyWeek competitions. ;-)

Cheers,
Ian