Author: KarinsDad
Date: 12:12:39 01/19/99
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On January 19, 1999 at 00:43:24, Don Dailey wrote: [snip] > >We used cilk to win a programming contest which had 96 entrants. >The contest was to produce the best "pousse" program and the >target platform was a 4 processor intel linux SMP. Pousse is >a tic-tac-toe type of 2 player game but extremely complex compared >to tic-tac-toe. When we found this out I joined the team. >The reason we won the contest (other than my awesome game >programming expertise of course) was that we had cilk. Of course >we also had awesome team work (are you listening KarinsDad?) Don, Does this mean that you are recanting your previous (and obviously flawed) position that teamwork takes a second place to individualism? :) > >Two professors assisted by learning the game and playing each >other, comming up with game playing heuristics and experimenting >with them. We had 3 1/2 days for the project, but we had a working >program in about 5 hours. I did the search and organized a >lot of the effort. 2 guys did code optimizations and wrote >the evaluation function while another (Chris Joerg who also >helped me a lot with Cilkchess) did some awesome move ordering >enhancements. I also implemented the hash tables, and made >the decisons on which data structure to represent the game. >The optimizers improved on this some to be more in tune with >the evaluation heuristics that were eventually decided on. > Oh, I get it! Silly me. Teamwork only works on small, short duration projects. My error. You were right after all! KarinsDad :) PS. This was ALL in humor guys. Let's not start up another "Individualism" vs. "Teamwork" discussion in computer chess. [snip] > >Check it out. There is also a link to the cilk pousse page >and the contest page. > > supertech.lcs.mit.edu/cilk > > >- Don
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