OT: Programming Contest

Saber Cherry · #1 March 2nd, 2004, 11:00 PM

Anyone interested in such a thing? If so, please post a suggestion for a contest, or read the following thread to see if you'd want to participate in a contest based on the current proposal. The existing proposal is based on Dominions II, but abstract enough to apply to any strategy game that uses production queues and multiple resource types.

http://www.shrapnelgames.com/cgi-bin...;f=74;t=001752

Parasite · #2 March 3rd, 2004, 12:00 AM

I have wanted to do a web based Neural Net that would correctly choose colony type. Inputs like %of planet, usage, how many are currently building ect. No time though, No time.

Saber Cherry · #3 March 3rd, 2004, 12:45 AM

Contest suggestion updated to become more clear, more generic, and more useful / realistic.

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Originally posted by Parasite:
I have wanted to do a web based Neural Net that would correctly choose colony type. Inputs like %of planet, usage, how many are currently building ect. No time though, No time.

I've never done a neural net (in software). From what I hear, the ones that are large enough to be nontrivial are hard to test...=)

chewy027 · #4 March 3rd, 2004, 03:43 AM

I have no contest proposals, but if anybody knows VB, has spare time, and is interested in working on a project let me know. We could always use more programmers.

Paul1980au · #5 March 3rd, 2004, 04:07 AM

http://freeorion.org is a freeorion project you might wish to contribute some programming skills there.

Parasite · #6 March 3rd, 2004, 05:16 PM

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Originally posted by Saber Cherry:
I've never done a neural net (in software). From what I hear, the ones that are large enough to be nontrivial are hard to test...=)

NNets are very generic. Once you have one, it is easy to make many and just change the inputs and retrain it to the new solution. The problem with them is they are not and will never be 100% correct. A test may give different answers when asked at different times. It may be 95% correct most of the time (Like me

) It may be a simple answer to some of the SEIV AI problems though. Plus, I want to do one.

chewy027 · #7 March 5th, 2004, 07:09 AM

so nobody knows the latest VB?

Cipher7071 · #8 March 6th, 2004, 02:08 AM

I also mostly progam in Delphi (Pascal), or Perl. VB is one thing that I've never gotten around to using.

Ruatha · #9 March 6th, 2004, 02:20 AM

Programs in Delphi, not VB. Sorry.

DavidG · #10 March 6th, 2004, 02:44 AM

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Originally posted by chewy027:
so nobody knows the latest VB?

Well yea but your original question also combined this with "do you have any free time" and are interested in working on some mysterious unkown project