Less Bugs In My Clojure Means More Ants
My bot is getting better. After taking a little time off, I spent a few hours last night making updates. While I haven’t deployed them, my current bot has continued to test it’s potential. It’s been...
View ArticleCourage is Better With Cowardice
My ants had already learned courage, and now they know the importance of cowardice. It’s been about two weeks since I uploaded a new bot, and this new version is much improved. The last real version...
View ArticleAI Challenge Entries Closed
The entry period for the AI Challenge has closed, and they’re doing the final games. I really haven’t updated my bot in two weeks or so. I had some more ideas to do and optimizations, but I never got...
View ArticleSecond Best Clojure Bot, Postmortem
Well, the Google AI Challenge is over, and I ended up as the second best Clojure bot. My skill rating was 53.23, which put me in 1,335th place. I never expected to be so high, but it turns out there...
View ArticleWhat To Do With A Raspberry Pi?
Earlier this year when my number came up in the queue, I put in my order for a Raspberry Pi. It arrived in the last week or so, and I printed out HansH’s case to give it some protection and style. The...
View ArticleBuilding and Running My Polargraph SD
Once I received the kit, it didn’t take me too long to build. I used RJ-11 jacks and cables to connect the motors and gondola to the controller board. I started to print out the Polargraph SD’s case...
View ArticleWordLadders in Haskell
Over the weekend I wrote my first Haskell program. It’s called WordLadders and I’ve spent a total of about 5.5 hours on it. I’ve been interested in functional programing for quite a while. Last year I...
View ArticleA Week of Haskell. Also… Ruby
Over the last week and a half I’ve spent quite a bit of time writing Haskell programs. I needed ideas for what to do so I started giving some of the challenges in /r/dailyprogrammer a try. First...
View ArticleThe Lumberjacks are Winning
I’m still working on ForestryService. I spent two hours last night trying to convert it to using a mutable vector instead of a list to keep track of the forest, but I couldn’t get all the monad stuff...
View ArticleGas Muzzler v1.0
My first app, Gas Muzzler, has hit v1.0 and been released to the app store. I wanted to be able to compare gas prices with electricity prices to figure out how much you could save with an electric car...
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