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Puzzlestorm!
(07 Feb 2004 at 19:57) |
We placed #4 by points in Puzzlestorm 2004. There were some kinda screwed up puzzles that we tore our hair out over for a while ("Scarborough Fair" by Paul Simon??? "ya rule"?) and some dumb mistakes that cost us points ("islbnd"?), but we had a great time as usual. There were some real exciting moments (Egypt!), and just like last year we tied for the most first solutions of any team.
It would really suck not to know how to program. A lot of good SML was written. Next year, we will have even more software... |
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NEW: ICFP 2002 Page
(08 Sep 2002 at 00:12) |
| I put up a page for our ICFP 2002 Programming Contest team, Tycon Mismatch. |
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30 Days Has September
(02 Sep 2002 at 04:19) |
The poem, you know, has it backwards. It's September that has 30 days, not the other way around.
Today is the 2nd day of September. It's almost unbelieveable that this early in the semester I'm already having an all-nighter! But it's a fun all-nighter, for the ICFP Programming Contest I mentioned in a previous weblog entry. Our virtual robot is wandering around, planning paths and avoiding enemies. He's knapsacking and flood-filling and priority-queueing. He even prints out a neat color map of what he sees. Though I'm sure we'll be competitive, I think we realized too late what the real "interesting" parts of the problem are and wasted too much time programming other parts to win it. But we'll see!
Note for those who want to send me prizes and wishes: Tom turns 23 on September 27! |
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ICFP 2002 Contest
(31 Aug 2002 at 01:00) |
Forget Labor Day; this weekend is ICFP 2002 Programming Contest weekend!
Since ICFP is in Pittsburgh this year, we have the Home Team Advantage... |
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November Update!
(09 Nov 2001 at 12:23) |
Time to bring this up to speed..
Today I'm heading to somewhere in Ohio for the ACM Programming Contest regional competition (with online scoreboard!). CMU's sending two teams -- my team won our practice contest yesterday, so I'm hopeful that we'll do well again tomorrow and go to the finals in Hawaii!
I saw Monsters, Inc. this week. It was really good.
I have been playing Bomberman Tournament for my Game Boy Advance. It's pretty fun, like a Zelda III / Pokemon game with bombs instead of swords.
My most recent (previously secret) project is mtex, a replacement for LaTeX. The primary difference (aside from being designed with more modern technology in mind) is the use of an ML-like language as the programming model. It's getting there...
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ICFP Contest Results
(07 Sep 2001 at 17:43) |
The results from the ICFP Programming Contest are in. Looks like we (tycon mismatch) got 9th place, which out of 150 competing entries is pretty good. Next year we'll win it. =)
(PS: Another independent ranking puts us at 5th place, but don't trust that one so much!) |
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NEW: Tycon Mismatch team page
(13 Aug 2001 at 01:24) |
I put up a team page for Tycon Mismatch, our team for the ICFP 2001 Programming Contest.
Results are starting to roll in from the judges. We actually had the best program for one of the inputs! |
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ICFP -- done!
(29 Jul 2001 at 13:39) |
OK, we finished our ICFP Entry! Actually, we submitted two. One with a very careful, monotonic transformation called (\x.x) and one with a crazy, randomized strategy called reencode. I guess we'll see how we do!
(Now -- time for sleep?) |
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ICFP 2001
(26 Jul 2001 at 09:53) |
It's time for the ICFP programming contest again! This year's team: Perry, Dave, Joe, and Me.
Here is the task we'll be working on, when it is posted at 11:00 am! Everyone join in! |
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Mr. October
(02 Oct 2000 at 22:45) |
OK, it's October!
My parents visited this weekend to help me celebrate my birthday last week. We went to the mall and I got a new Tiny Playstation to replace my old broken Playstation with the abortive mod job. This means I can keep playing all my good RPGs like Chrono Cross and Saga Frontier 2 while I should be doing work. The new Tiny Playstation is quite sleek.
Lots of stuff on the plate this week, with something due (again) in all of my classes. I am finding the site called artchive.com very helpful for my Art History project. My theorem prover program for Constructive Logic called MEGAPROVE probably won't be useful any more, now that they've got us doing homework which isn't completely algorithmic. The Compilers homework continues to be defined in terms of a changing and buggy reference implementation; I miss rigorous definitions.
The results for the ICFP '00 competition were posted. Our team didn't win (maybe next time there will be less real-number math!) but we are first on the contest results page! ;)
Check out the new series of comics (some of which drawn by me) on untitled.gif. They are weird.
My roommate got some movies, and I still have some left over from my last e-commerce adventure. Sometime this week we'll probably be watching Battle Athletes Victory (vol 3), Blade Runner, and Metropolis. |
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