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I TA’d this course this semester (Fall 2018 - wow the time flies), happy to answer questions. (Though I’m currently backpacking through the Andes so you may ne

I TA’d this course this semester (Fall 2018 - wow the time flies), happy to answer questions. (Though I’m currently backpacking through the Andes so you may need to be patient)

dmlittle 3y ago
Thank you for TA'ing the class! I took it in 2015 and TAs really made the class for myself and most of my friends. Is the end of semester Leisserchess competition still going? I believe I heard that the year you TA'd it (might have been a year before or after) a group finally compiled an opening playbook and beat everyone in the class
- explaininjs 3y ago
  I haven’t followed the course closely, but I’d assume there’s still some variation of the game going on, Charles was quite fond of it. I’m not sure what you mean by “finally complied an opening book”, by the time I was involved with the class opening books were table stakes and we even included code to generate them as part of the starting distribution. They’re somewhat useful, but effective culling of the search space in multithreaded contexts is far more important. The opening book can only ever help for the first few ply, after that the engine which can consistently think a move ahead will likely win. (Indeed the staff designed the rules to optimize for that very property). A quick and informative heuristic function is of course also critical.
lagniappe 3y ago
I don't have any questions but do wish you well on your journey through the Andes :) Signing up for the course for fun, thanks!
flyer_go 3y ago
Do you have code for the course?
- explaininjs 3y ago
  Not my place to share it! Though it can be found online by those who seek.
- stuarto 3y ago
  course repo with code and assignments is at: https://github.com/sourcery-ai-bot/MIT_OpenCourseWare-Performance_Engineering_of_Software_Systems https://github.com/sourcery-ai-bot/MIT_OpenCourseWare-Perfor...
noitamroftuo 3y ago
tell me about backpacking through the andes. one question - where do you sleep ?

I TA’d this course this semester (Fall 2018 - wow the time flies), happy to answer questions. (Though I’m currently backpacking through the Andes so you may need to be patient)

dmlittle 3y ago

Thank you for TA'ing the class! I took it in 2015 and TAs really made the class for myself and most of my friends. Is the end of semester Leisserchess competition still going? I believe I heard that the year you TA'd it (might have been a year before or after) a group finally compiled an opening playbook and beat everyone in the class

explaininjs 3y ago
I haven’t followed the course closely, but I’d assume there’s still some variation of the game going on, Charles was quite fond of it. I’m not sure what you mean by “finally complied an opening book”, by the time I was involved with the class opening books were table stakes and we even included code to generate them as part of the starting distribution. They’re somewhat useful, but effective culling of the search space in multithreaded contexts is far more important. The opening book can only ever help for the first few ply, after that the engine which can consistently think a move ahead will likely win. (Indeed the staff designed the rules to optimize for that very property). A quick and informative heuristic function is of course also critical.

lagniappe 3y ago

I don't have any questions but do wish you well on your journey through the Andes :) Signing up for the course for fun, thanks!

flyer_go 3y ago

Do you have code for the course?

explaininjs 3y ago
Not my place to share it! Though it can be found online by those who seek.
stuarto 3y ago
course repo with code and assignments is at: https://github.com/sourcery-ai-bot/MIT_OpenCourseWare-Performance_Engineering_of_Software_Systems https://github.com/sourcery-ai-bot/MIT_OpenCourseWare-Perfor...

noitamroftuo 3y ago

tell me about backpacking through the andes. one question - where do you sleep ?