Google AI challenge—status?
About one month ago there was some discussion regarding entering an LW team in the Google AI challenge.
Has anyone actually entered? If so, what was the result? I scanned carefully the leaderboard, but could not find any familiar names.
Links:
(http://lesswrong.com/r/discussion/lw/8ay/ai_challenge_ants/)
I had a brief foray into the top fifty, but now I’m down in the 140′s. I really haven’t found much time to work on it. Hopefully I can get my act together before the 18th...
I submitted an extremely simplistic algorithm that is currently ranked 733.
I’m in there, with an embarrassingly bad entry ranked in the mid-2K’s, barely an improvement on the tutorial bot.
For context when people post their scores, how many entries are there approximately?
Currently, around 7,000.
FYI your rank could be a lot lower in the final competition than it is now because most of the best bots only play on the TCP servers.