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by Lieven
Thu Mar 20, 2008 10:35 pm
Forum: Blockout II
Topic: bug
Replies: 10
Views: 42337

Re:bug

The video works on my comp, but I failed to notice anything unusual. The quality is pretty poor, so perhaps a few words on the problem wouldn\'t harm :)<br><br>Post edited by: Lieven, at: 2008/03/20 23:36
by Lieven
Tue Feb 26, 2008 8:55 pm
Forum: Blockout II
Topic: BL2 Bot Player
Replies: 144
Views: 217179

Re:BL2 Bot Player

Congrats :) 3x3x6 FLAT: ~29000 3x3x6 BASIC: ~1800 3x3x10 EXTENDED: ~200 5x5x10 EXTENDED: >200000 I am genuinely impressed! >I would like to add your name and email address to the >README file. Do you have a public email address that i >can use ? >I let your original code in the source. It is not use...
by Lieven
Tue Feb 19, 2008 10:06 pm
Forum: Blockout II
Topic: BL2 Bot Player
Replies: 144
Views: 217179

Re:BL2 Bot Player

Just a quick comment. The tale of the distribution (not the start) definitely follows an exponential decay, as I pointed out in an earlier post. The Poisson distribution does work, but you need to reformulate it as a problem of \"how many restarts for X number of blocks\". Also not very ad...
by Lieven
Mon Feb 18, 2008 7:13 pm
Forum: Blockout II
Topic: BL2 Bot Player
Replies: 144
Views: 217179

Re:BL2 Bot Player

Ok this is quite convincing. The method doesn\'t work. I do apologise for all the time you spend on this flawed idea! Thank you so much for trying anyway. Now you might wonder why I haven\'t tried to fit the Poisson as you suggested. The reason is that the Poisson has only 1 parameter, and the best ...
by Lieven
Sun Feb 17, 2008 6:36 pm
Forum: Blockout II
Topic: BL2 Bot Player
Replies: 144
Views: 217179

Re:BL2 Bot Player

That is very strange indeed. Furthermore, the sum of the first three lines is 711594, which is higher than the new eval. So my original eval spends more time on the lower depths, yet it does worse? Strange.<br><br>Post edited by: Lieven, at: 2008/02/17 19:37
by Lieven
Sun Feb 17, 2008 4:52 pm
Forum: Blockout II
Topic: BL2 Bot Player
Replies: 144
Views: 217179

Re:BL2 Bot Player

Thanks for the plot, doesn\'t look terribly good :/ A last attempt: Summing the last number of the first three rows of your two tests, we get 689660 (/1000000) 693779 (/1000000) or a variability of 0.05%. I think this is pretty good. Perhaps this value could give as an indication? Say when this valu...
by Lieven
Sun Feb 17, 2008 12:33 pm
Forum: Blockout II
Topic: BL2 Bot Player
Replies: 144
Views: 217179

Re:BL2 Bot Player

Thanks a lot for this data, I will have to think about what they mean :) You write: The problem with params scanning is that we need a reliable estimation of the average. I don\'t think this is necessary, all that we need to know for param evaluation is whether a certain evaluation is better than an...
by Lieven
Sun Feb 17, 2008 10:59 am
Forum: Blockout II
Topic: BL2 Bot Player
Replies: 144
Views: 217179

Re:BL2 Bot Player

Thanks for all the info. I am a bit surprised about the small convergence. Just for fun, if you have time could you run it again on a larger number, say 2.500.000 blocks? I am just curious to see the results. Perhaps this method tries to extract too much detailed information from one run. A similar ...
by Lieven
Sun Feb 17, 2008 12:20 am
Forum: Blockout II
Topic: BL2 Bot Player
Replies: 144
Views: 217179

Re:BL2 Bot Player

Thanks a lot, this looks great! 1 => 0.015544(F1) 0.29102 0.69344 2 => 0.30593 0.48459 0.20948 3 => 0.53528 0.35007 0.11464 Basically, I think the three first lines are enough, and the remaining lines are equal to the third (theoretically). One comment: In your table, the 9th and 10th row should hav...
by Lieven
Sat Feb 16, 2008 10:52 pm
Forum: Blockout II
Topic: BL2 Bot Player
Replies: 144
Views: 217179

Re:BL2 Bot Player

Yes that looks almost good (I think). However, the first line puzzles me a bit 0 => 0.997972 0.0020284(flush) 0 (I was also wrong in my previous post) With an empty pit, the only thing that can happen is that freedepth decreases so + 0 - 0 => 1 0 0 With a pit that has only \"blue\" blocks,...
by Lieven
Sat Feb 16, 2008 9:40 pm
Forum: Blockout II
Topic: BL2 Bot Player
Replies: 144
Views: 217179

Re:BL2 Bot Player

I am sorry, I probably wasn\'t clear enough. What I really want would to be these probabilities, but than as a function of depth. (so as a table) So for instance, at freedepth=4: what are the probabilities that the next move freedepth is >2, is =2 or is <2. So per depth, 3 probabilities. The values ...
by Lieven
Sat Feb 16, 2008 4:58 pm
Forum: Blockout II
Topic: BL2 Bot Player
Replies: 144
Views: 217179

Re:BL2 Bot Player

Ok I thought a bit about the statistics problem and how to speed up calculation of the average The idea of random walk might actually be very fruitful: Currently, all what we keep from one game is one number. Although one game gives a lot more information! Jean-Luc, would you mind doing a little tes...
by Lieven
Fri Feb 15, 2008 10:54 pm
Forum: Blockout II
Topic: BL2 Bot Player
Replies: 144
Views: 217179

Re:BL2 Bot Player

Thanks for the quick answer, yes I forgot to include BotplayerAI. The code looks impressive and it will take me some time to understand. You asked: It would be great and I would really appreciate if you can spend a bit of your time on the stats problems. I had a look at the cumulative distribution, ...
by Lieven
Fri Feb 15, 2008 9:41 pm
Forum: Blockout II
Topic: BL2 Bot Player
Replies: 144
Views: 217179

Re:BL2 Bot Player

I have a problem with compiling again: Game.cpp ..\\Game.cpp(136) : warning C4996: \'sprintf\' was declared deprecated C:\\Program Files\\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\\VC\\include\\stdio.h(345) : see declaration of \'sprintf\' Message: \'This function or variable may be unsafe. Consider using sprintf_s...
by Lieven
Thu Feb 14, 2008 4:00 pm
Forum: Blockout II
Topic: BL2 Bot Player
Replies: 144
Views: 217179

Re:BL2 Bot Player

I am impressed! If you have time, could you run it on 3x3x6 flat? Perhaps, it should be possible to play infinite in this mode. Otherwise definitely in 3x3x7 or 3x3x8. I remember I was quite disappointed how poor my evaluation did in these modes.