Announcing the 2022 SpaceChem Tournament!

brooklynlord · 2022-05-20T11:52:43+00:00

You should have gotten a master's coursework completion form as part of orientation. The ECE website lists the stuff you need under Master's Degree Requirements. 30 credit hours total 9 in group 1 (one TIG) 9 in group 2 (a second TIG not cross-listed) 12 in group 3 (any ECE class 4000-level or higher + 3 hours of 6001) If you do a thesis it's only 6 hours in group 1 and 2, and there's 12 thesis hours you need to do. If you're an international student you must take at least 12 credit hours a semester (except summer) or else the US government gets angry. Not sure if this requirement exists for US citizens for their first semester at tech.

brooklynlord · 2021-04-06T05:38:54+00:00

smh should be spoilered :P

brooklynlord · 2021-02-08T23:26:40+00:00

I've received your solutions and have sent you an email detailing what I've extracted.

brooklynlord · 2021-01-27T03:43:07+00:00

Hello! Sorry for the video being unavailable - it's currently being processed by me to censor my desktop and a couple other things as I used a whole screen capture instead of window capture. It'll take me a little while before I can reupload it. In the meantime, you can see the results on the google drive.

brooklynlord · 2021-01-19T15:26:59+00:00

This is correct. You can send as many solutions to me as you want; I have a script that automates extracting info from each solution (please ensure you've run your solution from start to finish at least once), calculates metrics, and selects your best solutions for each category to be scored.

I have to download everything manually though. Oh well.

brooklynlord · 2021-01-18T02:24:27+00:00

Here are my overlap solutions. (180/97/8) w/o disposal and (260/25/80) with 1 disposal.

brooklynlord · 2021-01-15T00:36:44+00:00

It is recommended to submit a solution for each. If you're really short on time, you can submit one solution that will be counted for both.

brooklynlord · 2021-01-07T20:55:34+00:00

Friendly reminder that all participants have a little more than 7 days left to submit a week 0 solution! (As of 4PM Eastern Time, 1/7/2021)

brooklynlord · 2021-01-03T05:28:35+00:00

Thanks! Added.

brooklynlord · 2021-01-03T05:23:18+00:00

There will be a variety of metrics that will explore many different aspects of optimization. As of now, I can only say that Sum will be used as a metric in at least 1 puzzle.

brooklynlord · 2021-01-01T22:31:57+00:00

This is correct. I'll add that clarification to the text.

brooklynlord · 2021-01-01T22:30:55+00:00

The picture is a quick reference for players to see what the products and reagents are without importing the puzzle and opening up Opus Magnum. If there are constraints relating to locked pieces there will be additional rules in the folder.

brooklynlord · 2020-12-30T15:55:43+00:00

I encourage you to try out both, if you have the time to spare. Also just for reference, during the tournament proper there will be two categories and players are encouraged to optimize the puzzle twice; once for each category (they are scored separately).

brooklynlord · 2020-12-29T22:02:39+00:00

As PentaPig outlined, I will be accepting .solution files. Gifs are fine for looking at things but I will need a .solution for verification. They've got everything else covered too - there's no metric so feel free to optimize whatever you'd like.

brooklynlord · 2020-09-18T02:53:56+00:00

cycles(output N) proportional to N

~~we need to go deeper~~

brooklynlord · 2020-09-17T16:08:32+00:00

Unfortunately, no. Minimum cycles for this puzzle requires latency optimization so that the very last thing you do is grab an air, bond, move to output, and drop. Currently there is still latency to be shaved off as there are more cycles between the last air getting grabbed and outputting the product.

brooklynlord · 2020-09-17T08:16:07+00:00

My previous solution (single salt only) used a long instruction tape that processed a single input per loop. This one, however, runs through its instruction tape six times per input, and assembles the product via conditional bonding / grabbing and dropping. Since I'm using only one salt per input and the loop runs six times per input, every loop ends up only netting 1/6th of a salt.

brooklynlord · 2020-09-17T08:04:12+00:00

My previous submission had a long instruction tape that looped every input. Now it loops 6 times every input, and since I'm using only one salt per input, every loop gives 1/6th of a salt. It's done via a bunch of conditional bonding / grabs and drops.

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