100% Evolved warrior on 94-nop

Barkley Vowk

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Aug 11, 2003, 4:26:48 PM8/11/03

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I'm sorry everyone, but this post is purely for the benefit of my ego
:)

I just submitted my first 100% evolved warrior that stuck on the hill
(actually, not true, I had one stick earlier, but it disappeared with
the next challenge). Its sitting in 16th place right now, which I'm
hoping will allow it to hang on for at least a few challenges. Its a
completely evolved paper, from start to finish, it took (very)
approximately 30 billion tries to get this warrior. I've had an (very
approx) average of 8 1Ghz Athlon CPU's working on this batch for about
the last 2.5-3 months (athough I peaked at about 60 ~1Ghz CPU's at one
point).

Anyways, I'd like to thank Joonas for his work on exhaust (and for
tweaking it constantly at my request), Wil for the evolver arms race
and many others from irc.koth.org for their help.

Your overall score: 128.723810

Ikarus has been pushed off the ICWS '94 No Pspace hill.
The current ICWS '94 No Pspace hill:
Last battle concluded at : Mon Aug 11 15:53:48 EDT 2003

# %W/ %L/ %T Name Author Score
Age
1 42/ 43/ 15 Toxic Spirit Philip Thorne 141
526
2 45/ 49/ 7 Recon 2 David Moore 141
295
3 30/ 21/ 49 badness bvowk 140
2
4 41/ 42/ 17 Return of Vanquisher Lukasz Grabun 139
603
5 32/ 25/ 44 Thunderstrike Lukasz Grabun 138
446
6 27/ 18/ 54 Yorba Roy van Rijn 137
49
7 29/ 22/ 49 Son of Vain Oversby/Pihlaja 136
1841
8 30/ 25/ 44 Now you're in trouble!!! John Metcalf 135
209
9 30/ 25/ 45 Reepicheep Grabun/Metcalf 135
1072
10 31/ 30/ 39 Digitalis 2003 Christian Schmidt 133
123
11 29/ 27/ 44 Massive Attack Roy van Rijn 131
7
12 29/ 27/ 44 Candy II Lukasz Grabun 131
221
13 38/ 45/ 18 Fuse Myer Bremer 131
82
14 28/ 27/ 44 Numb Roy van Rijn 130
228
15 21/ 14/ 65 unheard-of Christian Schmidt 129
172
16 23/ 18/ 59 869211-5957-xt430-10-eai3 bvowk 129
1
17 38/ 48/ 14 Hazy Test 63 Steve Gunnell 128
616
18 37/ 47/ 16 Studie 10/3 Sascha Zapf 126
30
19 38/ 51/ 11 Jinx 2 Christian Schmidt 125
73
20 27/ 28/ 46 Cascade Roy van Rijn 125
6

21 37/ 49/ 14 Ikarus Christian Schmidt 125
11

Dave Hillis

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Aug 11, 2003, 9:49:00 PM8/11/03

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bv...@math.ualberta.ca (Barkley Vowk) wrote in message >

> I just submitted my first 100% evolved warrior that stuck on the hill

<snip>
> Your overall score: 128.723810
<snip>

Congrats! (I've never come at all close to that.)

Dave

will

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Aug 12, 2003, 12:45:59 PM8/12/03

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--- Barkley Vowk <bv...@math.ualberta.ca> wrote:
> I just submitted my first 100% evolved warrior that
> stuck on the hill

wow!!! Congrats Barkley

this is like sputnik; now we race to the moon!

/Will

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Martinus

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Aug 12, 2003, 1:28:21 PM8/12/03

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Wow, this is really amazing.
Will the sourcecode of your program be available? :-)

martin
<martin dot ankerl at fh-hagenberg.at>

Barkley Vowk

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Aug 24, 2003, 9:41:54 PM8/24/03

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elmar...@eml.cc (Martinus) wrote in message news:<7024f804.03081...@posting.google.com>...

You can find it at http://www.expert-sys.com/files/ccai-1.0.tgz It
even includes your latest version of exhaust :)

BV

Bjoern

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Sep 21, 2003, 6:08:13 AM9/21/03

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Hi,

that's really impressive. Do you give out any information on the
algorithm you used to evolve the warrior?

Bjoern