So there is another competition coming up, this time from Inversed: http://inversed.ru/CoreWar_Challenge_2.htm
This competition uses the "nano" parameter set with warriors having a maximum of 5 instructions in an 80 location space. Fights are quick and the short warrior length makes them ideally suited to generation by evolvers.
The victory conditions are unusual, being heavily dependent on Nash equilibriums from Games Theory.
I have had a quick look, poking at the reference set using my Azure evolver (it's a development of my Cyan evolver and nothing to do with the MS cloud).
Unfortunately I don't have a tool to calculate Nash equilibriums myself and, given my current difficulties, I do not see any easy way of writing one.
But my evolver seems to think it is across this and I will have something to submit.
Initial feeling is that a nano paper like Nonlocality 2 or Pacler Deux will score well.
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Just having a little read up on Fibonacci Hashing. It seems to me that it should produce optimum step sizes for covering core in a useful manner but the problem is calculating it in an efficient manner in a loop ... I have some thoughts!
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Started to have a look at the Core War Fortress Hill on SAL which specifies a write limit.
So I need to upgrade from pMars 0.9.2 to 0.9.4 ... maybe they have fixed the compile errors on Linux ... nope. Patched the source to eliminate errors and also switched from gcc to clang because clang throws less errors and produces better output code.
Built a server version of pMars for the scripts which seems to work but Write Limit is woefully under-documented so there is no way of telling for sure.
Went to step through the code to see if I could tell how it works but the Ubuntu pMars package is not up to date. Went back and compiled again with the Xwindows switches on and tried the executable with the debugger enabled ... The window opens okay but somehow keystrokes are not correctly being transferred to it. Now I'm out of the high denomination spoons I need to concentrate on this task.
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RISC-V - From a computational, geopolitical perspective. * THIS IS HOW "WE" LOOSE * The TOP RISC-V, open-source CPU is from China. Giving Intel (and others) more 'free money' does not fix this. XiangShan - https://xiangshan.cc - Code - https://github.com/OpenXiangShan/XiangShan - Post x86 platform of choice. All the lobbying, subsidies, pr and marketing in the world doesn't improve the current path of BFC {better, cheaper, faster}. #riscv #cpu #corewars #opensourcer #xiangshan #georgehotz

some "opportunistic shade" (not wrong), but what's TSMC without ASML? ;> @twsemicon @intel @asmlcompany #corewars #chipwars https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/tsmc-founder-says-intel-should-focus-on-ai-not-advanced-process-technologies

apparently there are no minecraft simulations of the old #CoreWars game

Brilliant! @crowdstrike #bsod #corewars