{"id":166,"date":"2008-09-29T10:53:43","date_gmt":"2008-09-29T16:53:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.philhassey.com\/blog\/?p=166"},"modified":"2008-09-29T11:00:22","modified_gmt":"2008-09-29T17:00:22","slug":"the-galcon-prize-mid-contest-results","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.philhassey.com\/blog\/2008\/09\/29\/the-galcon-prize-mid-contest-results\/","title":{"rendered":"The Galcon Prize: mid-contest results"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.galcon.com\/prize\/\">Galcon Prize<\/a> is a once-in-a-lifetime chance to improve the Galcon rankings system! Galcon is a winner-takes-all multi-player game for 2-4 players. Entries are to be written in python. The prize is an 8GB iPod Touch. Entries must be uploaded by Oct 5.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve updated the dataset with way more data &#8230; so you&#8217;ll want to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.galcon.com\/prize\/gprize.zip\">download that<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Here are the mid-contest results:<\/p>\n<pre> 1. rafsoaken        452.44  0:20 [-407,836]\r\n 2. codepenguin      452.42  0:20 [431,1392]\r\n 3. mewo2            452.36  0:19 [167,1601]\r\n 4. azbuky           451.46  0:16 [54,903]\r\n 5. fl0yd13          450.88  0:14 [103,7400]\r\n 6. paulatreides     449.94  0:16 [0,24990]\r\n 7. elo              449.93  0:18 [415,1352]\r\n 8. adamzap          446.13  0:18 [0,7]\r\n 9. simple           445.15  0:13 [-9922,6624]\r\n10. mithrandir       440.20  0:28 [-33,1019]\r\n11. percent          438.49  0:14 [0,100]\r\n12. kester           424.54  0:13 [1,502]\r\n13. rounds           387.33  0:12 [1,10710]\r\n14. noop             317.46  0:11 [0,0]\r\n15. bad              224.82  0:12 [-3803,0]\r\n<\/pre>\n<p>So .. It looks like the results are REALLY close .. The scoring is basically a percentage of how often the algorithm guesses correctly.  So all the top entries are in the 45% correct zone.  This is a nice improvement over my current algorithm which is at 43% correct.<\/p>\n<p>Also, be sure to to keep uploading your entries throughout the week, I&#8217;ll try and post an update every day or so with the current standings so you can see how you are doing.\u00a0 I may be testing your entries against NEW data that you will not have access to, in order to test how well your algorithm handles data it hasn&#8217;t previously trained against.\u00a0 So watching for updates on the results will be quite valuable.<\/p>\n<p>Also, rafsoaken sent me a histogram viewer function, which I&#8217;ve added to gprize.py.  Run it with -histogram to see a visual of how your numbers are spreading.  I&#8217;ll probably be using that to help me decide if an entry will really &#8220;work&#8221; for Galcon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The Galcon Prize is a once-in-a-lifetime chance to improve the Galcon rankings system! Galcon is a winner-takes-all multi-player game for 2-4 players. Entries are to be written in python. The prize is an 8GB iPod Touch. Entries must be uploaded by Oct 5.&#8221; I&#8217;ve updated the dataset with way more data &#8230; so you&#8217;ll want [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,66,2],"tags":[84],"class_list":["post-166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-galcon","category-iphone","category-python","tag-prize"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philhassey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philhassey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philhassey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philhassey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philhassey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=166"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.philhassey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philhassey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philhassey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philhassey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}