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Bots and Simulations => Bot Tavern => Topic started by: ikke on December 27, 2009, 12:32:44 PM
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Absent other f2 & f3 bots that can compete I run matches between variants of Gimmick, usually differing only in one line of code, or even just in parameters. Two days ago I started to see which variant of the two I just made was better. First competition came in about 30-60 for one. For some reason I decided to run a second. It came back 60-30. So I ran a third series. At 29000 still no winner
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That's really weird. But I guess it tells you that the two bots really are identically matched. Although I did some simulations with coin tosses and a winner was still eventually declared. I'd have to dig it back up to find how long it would take.
Basically, to win, a bot needs sqrt(number of matches) + number of matches / 2. Asymptotically it approaches just number of matches / 2.