SCAM’16 is becoming “The Tweeting Conference.” In this guest post, I, Moritz Beller, will explain how I came up with this slogan and what it means. The idea of increasing SCAM’s visibility was drafted out together with my social media co-chair Felienne and the SCAM organizing committee. The aim of Twitter-ifying the conference is to […]
I am going to stop saying I taught myself programming when I was 10 and maybe you should too
This post is about the strange idea in the programming/computer science community to brag about have taught yourself programming at a young age. It is a long post! The tl;dr is the title 🙂 The craziness of the self taught 10 year old Before I will explain why this strange myth can be harmful and […]
Performance versus elegant code, a never ending trade off [Desiderius part #19]
Generating with constraints So, the next step, actually generating things. As I wrote last week, my strategy first was to generate entirely random hands. But! I realized that if we do that, we make some assumptions about our partner, because they will have an average hand. I then wanted to generate a random hand for […]
A fitness function for bidding systems [Desiderius part #17]
Last week I explained why a DSL and genetic programming are such an awesome combination. So, we can almost start to mutate our ACOL code. But, there is one thing we need: a fitness function, a function that tells us we are going the right way. When mutating a string, we used the Levenshtein distance […]
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Genetic programming on a DSL [Desiderius #16]
Hi desi lovers! Service notice: Sorry I missed a post last weekend, I was prepping my F# Exchange talk. If you have not read any of my Desi posts, you can save some time and watch my talk that more or less covers posts 1/5, 8, 15 and 16 (yes, that is this one) If […]
