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Google and UT’s 2011 AI Challenge: Ants
- oniTony 15y agoI'm pretty sure that the contest is hosted by the University of Waterloo's Computer Science Club; Google is a sponsor, UofT is definitely not a host -- http://aichallenge.org/faq.php http://aichallenge.org/faq.php
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- ggfa 15y agoEeek! Thanks. I hope I'm not the only one who has ever confused Canadian universities :D
- janzer 15y agoWe are no longer directly connected with University of Waterloo's CSC and have never been affiliated with UofT. There are a few current and past UofW students that are still admins in the contest but also a few others that have stepped up from around the world to help put it together it. Google is and has been our primary sponsor.
- muuh-gnu 15y agoInterestingly, the leading bot language this year seem to be Java, while last years winner, Lisp, isn't among the current top 100 entries any more.
- nafta 15y agoPerhaps, that stems from the fact that Java's starter package implementation was the earliest to be developed and is still today the most mature (besides Python's anyway).
- ggfa 15y agoI'm sure that's a huge component.
- cperciva 15y agoIn order to succeed on this year's contest, you need good path-finding, which you won't be able to do easily in lisp within the time limit.
- wes-exp 15y agoWhy is lisp worse at path-finding?
- cperciva 15y agoLisp isn't worse at path-finding; it's slower at path-finding, simply because it's slower at everything. Lisp has its place; performance-critical code isn't it.
- ohyes 15y agoThis is incorrect. Lisp is not slower at everything. When properly tweaked it can be pretty close to java in speed.
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