[Cs4800] Fwd: Questions

[Karl Lieberherr]

Hi Matt:

You are encouraged to make improvements.

For Wednesday you just do the clean algorithms and later you can optimize.

I just had an interesting discussion with Greg: what happens if your avatar
gets
close to running out of time during a round and it still has to process 3
solve requests?
You could switch to a faster approximation algorithm that produces a
solution
close to the optimum and that can be only minimally strengthened.

-- Karl


On Tue, Nov 1, 2011 at 11:04 AM, Matthew Pelland <mtpelland at gmail.com>wrote:

> Do we have to use the code we hand in for homework 6 in the competition?
> Or can we hand in and then make improvements?
>
> Thanks,
> Matt
> On Nov 1, 2011 10:47 AM, "Karl Lieberherr" <lieber at ccs.neu.edu> wrote:
>
>> Hi Matthew:
>>
>> On Mon, Oct 31, 2011 at 5:31 PM, Matthew Strax-Haber <
>> straxhaber at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Re the avatar assignment.
>>>
>>> 1) can we retain state between multiple 'turns' for our avatar?
>>>
>> Yes. Your avatar "sleeps" on the CCIS machine between turns and you can
>> retain state. You can also precompute knowledge before the tournament
>> starts.
>>
>>> 2) are there any caps on memory usage, or does it just have to run on a
>>> CCIS lab machine (the usual requirement)?
>>>
>> Yes, has to run on a CCIS machine.
>>
>>> 3) will we interact directly with other avatars, or only through the
>>> administrator?
>>>
>> Only through the administrator.
>>
>>> 4) should we spend time writing defensive code? (i.e., protecting
>>> against nulls in poorly formed trees, cycles in trees, etc.)
>>>
>> Very good question. Answer: No. The playground designers and the SCG
>> Court system provides this defensive programming. Th administrator will
>> remove an avatar who provides an illegal decision tree.
>>
>> -- Karl
>>
>>>
>>> Best regards,
>>> ~ Matt
>>> Please excuse my brevity... Sent from my iPhone
>>
>>
>>
>>
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