Timeline for Sandbox for Proposed Challenges
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| Dec 14, 2019 at 12:42 | history | edited | the default. | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Dec 14, 2019 at 12:09 | comment | added | the default. | @AlienAtSystem I see your point; removed the hashing restriction and also a loophole (where a solution that is a few GiB large, but presumably full of comments so that it doesn't run too slowly, makes all others time out). | |
| Dec 14, 2019 at 12:07 | history | edited | the default. | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Dec 14, 2019 at 9:22 | comment | added | AlienAtSystem | I feel like the "no hashing" condition might be a bit problematic: For the last program submitted not to have an easy time with the rest, the scoring method of a program needs to be very hard to predict and game, and hashes are basically the optimal way about this. This then might end up with a challenge where people try to implement almost-but-not-quite hashing functions without upsetting you. | |
| Dec 8, 2019 at 2:23 | history | edited | the default. | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Dec 2, 2019 at 4:57 | comment | added | Jo King Mod | Do we submit functions that take strings, programs that read from STDIN, or perhaps even functions that take functions? | |
| Dec 2, 2019 at 1:15 | history | edited | the default. | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Dec 1, 2019 at 23:08 | comment | added | Rydwolf Programs | You should post it, just to see how it goes. Five upvotes just in the sandbox...if you added a language restriction and a few more rules to prevent the last answer from always winning, I think it'd be a popular challenge | |
| Nov 29, 2019 at 17:13 | comment | added | 79037662 | Some languages make extensive use of non-ascii characters, and some languages don't support non-ascii characters as input. Restricting the language is one way to solve this problem. | |
| Nov 26, 2019 at 19:34 | comment | added | FryAmTheEggman | To minimise the problem flawr mentions you could consider only showing a "peek" of the programs to be judged, and then include a suitable upper bound on length. Of course, this has the problem of choosing that upper bound, but I think it may lead to a better back-and-forth? Posting will also still have a negative effect on your ability to win, however. | |
| Nov 26, 2019 at 14:48 | comment | added | Rydwolf Programs | @mypronounismonicareinstate No specific reason, but it tends to simplify things massively. It also allows the bots to more effectively read the source code | |
| Nov 26, 2019 at 14:23 | comment | added | the default. | @RedwolfPrograms I can see why is randomness bad, but why should I add the language restriction? I have thought about it, and know I will probably add it in the end (because I can write an automated tester only in some langauges), but does it actually improve anything? (I guess I'll restrict to one of Javascript, C# or Python; Javascript seems to be the most common so it is also the most likely) | |
| Nov 26, 2019 at 14:20 | history | edited | the default. | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Nov 26, 2019 at 13:55 | comment | added | Rydwolf Programs | I suggest a rule against randomness (and probably a language restriction, too, those make it a lot easier) | |
| Nov 26, 2019 at 9:06 | comment | added | flawr | That is a really fun idea but probably more a social- than a programming challenge:) I guess one problem is that newer submissions can always be tuned to favor themselves against all the existing ones, so it is probably gonna end up as a "last submission wins" if you don't include any counter measures. | |
| Nov 26, 2019 at 7:58 | history | answered | the default. | CC BY-SA 4.0 |