I’ve been running Debian/testing on my desktop PC since 2004 without reinstalling anything and it has served me very well. Besides some minor problems, mostly with frustrating software like wine and Exim4, I’ve never ran into any serious problems. Debian is just great, but there are some reasons why Archlinux is better for me: Arch [...]
…and thus exempted from contributions :-)
Hooray, it is world water week! Wait a minute… who cares? Certainly not my faucet in the kitchen which is trying to perform an acoustic variation of Chinese water torture on me every night. Maybe I’m too harsh and its intentions are to soothe me into sleep all the time with its rhythmic dripping-patterns which [...]
I’ve found an article called Optimal Play of the Dice Game Pig by Neller and Presser that discusses a variant of the dice game proposed by the Linux Magazin, the only difference is the winning score and that rolling a 1 leads to passing the die to your opponent instead of 6, so none of [...]
Just a quick post: In a very long rerun of the tests regarding HLimS(17,7) I came to the conclusion that HLimS(17,7) is definitely better than SlimS(16). Here are the results: Bot Matches Wins Defeats WinRatio[%] StartRatio[%] HLimS(7,17) 100000 50659 49341 50.66 50.07 SlimS(16) 100000 49341 50659 49.34 49.93 Thanks to user Solarix [...]
In my last blog I mentioned how baffled I was about the effectiveness of a very basic strategy for the mentioned dice game. I admit I’m not a coding nerd, quite the contrary: I made a grave mistake in the implementation and the results presented in my test runs represent a slightly different strategy. The [...]
The German Linux-Magazin is sponsoring a programming contest for the following problem: Two players compete in a dice game, every player can roll a six sided die as often as he wishes. As long as no 6 is rolled the numbers are added up and the player can pass the die to the other one [...]
In the last post I’ve presented the fitness-level method, a very basic approach to obtain upper bounds for the expected optimization time of evolutionary algorithms. In order to apply this method to a problem (you should know your fitness function ) you just have to abide by the following recipe: Define a -partition Find lower [...]
This is the first in a series of posts regarding techniques for analyzing the computational complexity of evolutionary algorithms. I mainly consider it part of my self-studies to clear things up and I don’t claim correctness or completeness. For the sake of simplicity I’ll discuss the fitness-level method or method of fitness-based partitions for the [...]
This is the first post on my new blog and I’ll just start right off. In the past couple of months I grew fairly fond of kettlebell-training, kettlebells are just awesome tools to challenge your strength, endurance and flexibility while still having lots of fun, I really dig Turkish Getups and snatches with my 16kg [...]