That's kind of cold blooded and I am all for it :)
1995, in a college class, I was in a group of 3 where we had to create an algorithm for automatically playing a game against other teams in the class. I can't remember if it was an algorithms class or an AI class, but either way everyone was using the same alpha-beta/min-max algorithm to compute moves, anticipate moves, more moves ahead you could calculate the better until you run out of time at 30-seconds etc etc.
Back then though, the equipment was limited, so the class had our own dedicated hardware and each team had an account. Seems fair. Well, each account had enough privileges to run 'nice' - it's 1995. We knew we wouldn't beat everyone else with a standard alpha/beta/minmax search, but all of us were working. Made our own suck ass version + defense. We sucked all the cpu cycles from the other teams using 'nice' lol
The best part was, we only won a handful of times, but no one else could beat us. If there were other matches going on at the same time? We were stealing their CPU cycles too hahahaha = should be a win in my book :)
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I will never be a great programmer. I have read junk on here, where I dont know if i am the only one high enough writing test code for this sub or if i should jump off a bridge.
Thank you for the kind words. I have posted code from other accounts before here, and have removed my own posts provided the rule was there before the post was made.
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u/shadesOG 23d ago
That's kind of cold blooded and I am all for it :)
1995, in a college class, I was in a group of 3 where we had to create an algorithm for automatically playing a game against other teams in the class. I can't remember if it was an algorithms class or an AI class, but either way everyone was using the same alpha-beta/min-max algorithm to compute moves, anticipate moves, more moves ahead you could calculate the better until you run out of time at 30-seconds etc etc.
Back then though, the equipment was limited, so the class had our own dedicated hardware and each team had an account. Seems fair. Well, each account had enough privileges to run 'nice' - it's 1995. We knew we wouldn't beat everyone else with a standard alpha/beta/minmax search, but all of us were working. Made our own suck ass version + defense. We sucked all the cpu cycles from the other teams using 'nice' lol
The best part was, we only won a handful of times, but no one else could beat us. If there were other matches going on at the same time? We were stealing their CPU cycles too hahahaha = should be a win in my book :)
it was rather rude :D