Author: Don Dailey
Date: 21:45:57 01/20/99
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On January 19, 1999 at 15:12:39, KarinsDad wrote: >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 I made the whole thing up just to bait you. Boy you are a real sucker! - Don
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