Yesterday when I wrote my wrap-up of Day 1, we were performance tuning and waiting to get back results from various runs, all to get stuck on a riddle involving
1337 and a cheesy reference to GhostBusters. So although yesterday yielded faster implementations, we were not able to make use of them, and hit an absolute dead end.
Here's some statistics: 869 registered, 357 submitted, we came in at 116 with the same risk and survival chance (1160657,1.2719%) as those from rank 91-164.
This puts us in the top 1/3 of those who submitted, and top 13% of those who registered. Ironically, this is the best our team has ever done, though this sure does not feel like a victory.
For those interested in our implementation, feel free to
browse it on the web. Our code may still have room for optimization, but we tuned the hell out of it, and though it is slow, it was working well enough so long as we batched tasks out to many machines.
Anyway, another year passed, another insane challenge attempted with only a modicum of success, but definitely a lot learned and plenty of fun along the way. Warm regards to all those who were involved in the competition, it was a blast yet again.
UPDATE (2007.07.24):
James has put up a short
team summary page. I've also fixed permissions on our Trac so you should be able to view the source now...
