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(...) So, during the qualification round, we're running robots against each other. How do you score them if they tie? Derek is suggesting we give it to whoever executes their total move time fastest. Calum (21 years ago, 5-Jan-04, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) here are the problems I KNOW! no one has proposed a way to fairly, accurately, and consistently score this game KEEPING IN MIND that we don't know if we will have 5 robots, or 18 robots show up. AS WELL we know that with "good" software this (...) (21 years ago, 5-Jan-04, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) Here are the problems I see with ties: 1. I think we are going to see a lot of ties. 2. If two robots tie, they are very likely to tie exactly the same way if they play again. Derek (21 years ago, 5-Jan-04, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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I developed a couple of rolls of film on the weekend and discovered a roll of pics from Train2.. So here they are! (URL) images are a little blury, I had taken them with my fathers camera, which has since died.. Jeff VW (21 years ago, 5-Jan-04, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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In lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, Calum Tsang wrote: <snip> (...) Can you bring a few to dinner on the 9th? Dave K (21 years ago, 5-Jan-04, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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it was my understanding that ~IF~ after a long day of watching 1000 games of Connect 4, that if at the end of the day 2 robots, really do tie... then they tie. period. (...) -- Chris There's no 'I' in 'team'. There's four in 'platitude-quoting (...) (21 years ago, 5-Jan-04, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) don't sweat it..... we'll just shun you like we'll do for Rob S. Chris There's no 'I' in 'team'. There's four in 'platitude-quoting idiot'. (21 years ago, 5-Jan-04, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) I was just planning on wearing a T-shirt. I didn't realize there would be a dress code. (21 years ago, 5-Jan-04, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) really (...) I'll give ya a hand, man! I'll bring my palmtop and IR stuff so we can write the code on-site. I'll have my stuff there for my marble sorting robot anyway. Oh - marble size, I think they're 10 mm (~3/8"). Iain (21 years ago, 5-Jan-04, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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I, unlike my colleagues here in rtlToronto, end up buying sets many many months later. I just can't get myself sets the day they come out. Anyways, I'm building my backhoe tonight while watching that NOVA Mars special, and all is good. It's now (...) (21 years ago, 5-Jan-04, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) Unrelated: Ties. Derek brought this up. Do we need to think about ties? Calum (21 years ago, 5-Jan-04, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) There were some good sales at TRU before and after Christmas. Calum (21 years ago, 5-Jan-04, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) Another possibility for rtlToronto16 is that no one is allowed to bring anything to the contest except the standard Mindstorms kit, and no one knows the desolate landscape until the day of the contest. Then it would be a day long building (...) (21 years ago, 5-Jan-04, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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Yes indeed, I have built a robot for marble sorting. It just needs possibly a little tinkering, and it needs a LOT of programming, but I'm pretty happy. And I did't wait to do it 24 hours before the competition! Shocking. I do have a few problems (...) (21 years ago, 5-Jan-04, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) I think that's two. (21 years ago, 5-Jan-04, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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Please define a ply? if I go first, and you go second, is that ONE ply or TWO? Chris (21 years ago, 5-Jan-04, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) Yeah, no LEGO sets for me this year :( *snif* eh, whatever. So did ya get these sets on sale? Dave K -who bought 30 road plates on e-bay--the extent of his LEGO purchases for the holiday season... (21 years ago, 5-Jan-04, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) Ooooh, that gives me an idea... no not the milk... Some newspaper and paper mache--(I used to know how to spell that but i'm getting on in years...) and et voila--Marscape! Marscape for y'all to move the rover'bot aroun in Dave's abode. Maybe (...) (21 years ago, 5-Jan-04, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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rtlToronto January Monthly Dinner January 9th 2004, 7PM Swiss Chalet 5487 Dundas Street West Toronto, Ontario Man, am I sick of Swiss Chalet. I think I've eaten so many pot pies, it's not funny. I'm gonna try something else this time. Maybe just (...) (21 years ago, 5-Jan-04, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) I used to get the NASA channel... now, not so much. Grr!! I have the rover set--is on my desk now 'cause of the touch-down. Have fun making the 'bigger better' version :) Take care, Dave K (21 years ago, 5-Jan-04, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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