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Thanks for organizing this! I had a great time playing with the system for a week even though I did not get anywhere close to the prize pool. I have no idea if

Thanks for organizing this! I had a great time playing with the system for a week even though I did not get anywhere close to the prize pool. I have no idea if anyone checks these threads after a week but not that it's over, I am super curious what strategies other folks used. I used a python script to pre-process my programs to minimize jumps and downloaded the sim to run an iterative optimizer with parallelization. I just put a little writeup and the code on github https://github.com/Will-Morr/MomentSwarm https://github.com/Will-Morr/MomentSwarm.

cristoperb 7mo ago
I just came back to check if anyone else was discussing their entry, so thanks for posting your write up! I wrote mine by hand just testing it using the in-browser simulator. I initially used subroutines to try to keep things structured but then resorted to inlining most things (and flattening as much state as I could to bare registers) to try to speed things up, though i never quite got my ants to always move within the 64 op step. My best score on the official test set was 654 (43rd place). I put my code and a little write up here: https://github.com/cristoper/brain.ant https://github.com/cristoper/brain.ant
- hukdukmukduk 7mo ago
  Here is my entry, I managed to get up to 815 on the validation set during the event, and 825 after: https://github.com/hukdukmukduk/brain.ant https://github.com/hukdukmukduk/brain.ant
  - cristoperb 7mo ago
    Thanks for sharing, and congratulations! Interesting that you didn't use dead reckoning at all to return to the nest. I didn't think I could get away with that. And somehow using a second channel to extend the trails never occurred to me.
    - andthenzen 7mo ago
      Thanks to everyone in this chain for sharing! I've learned so much from your programs and was inspired to make my repo public and do a write up as well. I was 52nd place with a score of 599. https://github.com/Taxes/ants https://github.com/Taxes/ants
      - grantsucceeded 7mo ago
        Wow. thank you so much for the writeup. I'm just now (last few months) dabbling with agentic coding, but being an oldschool tech guy I had to dive straight into assembly. It was just too hard for me to level up my agentic skills given the deadline.
        TheCog 6mo ago
        I wrote a... slightly substantial writeup: https://hallofdreams.org/posts/agents-and-ants/ https://hallofdreams.org/posts/agents-and-ants/
        grantsucceeded 6mo ago
        Thanks! This challenged coincided with my first dabblings into agentic coding. I wrote all my attempts in hand coded assembly, without doing any basic research. but your site is very entertaining and is reminding me of why the connection of ants/swarms cellular automata to gradient discovery to AI always blows my mind

cristoperb 7mo ago

I just came back to check if anyone else was discussing their entry, so thanks for posting your write up! I wrote mine by hand just testing it using the in-browser simulator. I initially used subroutines to try to keep things structured but then resorted to inlining most things (and flattening as much state as I could to bare registers) to try to speed things up, though i never quite got my ants to always move within the 64 op step. My best score on the official test set was 654 (43rd place). I put my code and a little write up here: https://github.com/cristoper/brain.ant https://github.com/cristoper/brain.ant

hukdukmukduk 7mo ago
Here is my entry, I managed to get up to 815 on the validation set during the event, and 825 after: https://github.com/hukdukmukduk/brain.ant https://github.com/hukdukmukduk/brain.ant
- cristoperb 7mo ago
  Thanks for sharing, and congratulations! Interesting that you didn't use dead reckoning at all to return to the nest. I didn't think I could get away with that. And somehow using a second channel to extend the trails never occurred to me.
  - andthenzen 7mo ago
    Thanks to everyone in this chain for sharing! I've learned so much from your programs and was inspired to make my repo public and do a write up as well. I was 52nd place with a score of 599. https://github.com/Taxes/ants https://github.com/Taxes/ants
    - grantsucceeded 7mo ago
      Wow. thank you so much for the writeup. I'm just now (last few months) dabbling with agentic coding, but being an oldschool tech guy I had to dive straight into assembly. It was just too hard for me to level up my agentic skills given the deadline.
      - TheCog 6mo ago
        I wrote a... slightly substantial writeup: https://hallofdreams.org/posts/agents-and-ants/ https://hallofdreams.org/posts/agents-and-ants/
        grantsucceeded 6mo ago
        Thanks! This challenged coincided with my first dabblings into agentic coding. I wrote all my attempts in hand coded assembly, without doing any basic research. but your site is very entertaining and is reminding me of why the connection of ants/swarms cellular automata to gradient discovery to AI always blows my mind