Re: The 12th ICFP Programming Contest

2009-06-26 Thread Roger Burton West
On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 01:15:59AM -0700, Ask Bj?rn Hansen wrote: Actually, per the FAQ it looks like they won't have to even be able to run the program on their systems. ...it works on my infinite Turing machine; implementation on bounded hardware is merely an engineering problem. R

Re: ICFP This Weekend

2003-06-29 Thread Steve Keay
On Fri, Jun 27, 2003 at 03:05:22PM +0100, Leon Brocard wrote: The ICFP Programming Competition is this weekend. It starts tonight at Well I had a greeaat time - 36 hours late to the competition I thought, let's try a genetic algorithm here - it's ideal and then thought, well, it'll have

Re: ICFP This Weekend

2003-06-28 Thread Leon Brocard
Leon Brocard sent the following bits through the ether: http://www.dtek.chalmers.se/groups/icfpcontest/ It's up now. It's a race-car optimisation problem. Fairly interesting, as there is lots of research out there. But I so don't have time to actually do it, sigh. So, anyone else trying it

Re: ICFP This Weekend

2003-06-28 Thread Shevek
On Sat, 28 Jun 2003, Leon Brocard wrote: Leon Brocard sent the following bits through the ether: http://www.dtek.chalmers.se/groups/icfpcontest/ It's up now. It's a race-car optimisation problem. Fairly interesting, as there is lots of research out there. But I so don't have time to

Re: ICFP This Weekend

2003-06-28 Thread Paul Johnson
On Sat, Jun 28, 2003 at 01:34:53PM +0100, Shevek wrote: I've realised how easy XS is for little tasks, and how my first XS project (writing a compiler) was rather jumping in at the deep end, and how useless h2xs is. But you have to Always begin with h2xs. Always

ICFP This Weekend

2003-06-27 Thread Leon Brocard
The ICFP Programming Competition is this weekend. It starts tonight at midnight and finished at midnight on Monday. I don't have much free time this weekend but will probably give it a go if it's an interesting project: http://www.dtek.chalmers.se/groups/icfpcontest/ Leon -- Leon Brocard

Re: ICFP

2001-07-06 Thread Robin Houston
On Fri, Jul 06, 2001 at 02:09:25PM +0100, Greg McCarroll wrote: for a number of years i've fancied entering the ICFP's competiton http://cristal.inria.fr/ICFP2001/prog-contest/ with a Perl entry, would anyone else be interested in forming a team? Could be a laugh. It's worth bearing in

Re: ICFP

2001-07-06 Thread Greg McCarroll
* Robin Houston ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Fri, Jul 06, 2001 at 02:09:25PM +0100, Greg McCarroll wrote: for a number of years i've fancied entering the ICFP's competiton http://cristal.inria.fr/ICFP2001/prog-contest/ with a Perl entry, would anyone else be interested in forming a

Re: ICFP

2001-07-06 Thread Paul Johnson
On Fri, Jul 06, 2001 at 05:07:27PM +0100, Greg McCarroll wrote: * Robin Houston ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Also you're given 72 hours to do it in, so everyone would need to take three days off work. i think there is a special class for people who only want to spend 24 hours solving it -

Re: ICFP

2001-07-06 Thread Greg McCarroll
* Roger Burton West ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On or about Fri, Jul 06, 2001 at 07:29:47PM +0200, Paul Johnson typed: Looks like it starts on Thursday afternoon too. Now, if only there were a social meeting that day... There is another option, we form a team[1] with people in different