I had claude code implement minimax (w/ alpha-beta pruning) for the general n cells version of the game.

I checked n=6...20. It looks like white wins for n=6 and n=8 with perfect play, otherwise it is a draw.

With random play, black seems to have the edge regardless of board size. About 2/3 of the games end in a draw, but black wins 20% and white 13%.

Silly Asses by Isaac Asimov?

https://www.contecurte.eu/2019/05/ecumene-silly-asses/

That was a bust: https://www.reddit.com/r/engineering/comments/pwht4f/whateve...

> Is there a human out there who would just magically type all the right things - no errors - first try?

If they know what they're doing and it's not an exploratory task where the most efficient way to do it is by trial and error? Quite a few. Not always, but often.

That skill seems to have very little value in today's world though.

Regarding electricity, it depends on what you mean by “we”, I guess

https://www.voronoiapp.com/energy/-China-Generated-More-Elec...

> Here's the live assignment requirements: [1] https://i.imgur.com/aaiy7QR.png & [2] https://i.imgur.com/aaiy7QR.png.

These are the same link

You can check all the teams and their members here: https://cphof.org/advanced/icpc/2025

It's rarely the case that looking at school names is useful (for many things in life) when there are more data points.

In this case, without any insider knowledge, just by looking at their profiles, the relevant name would appear to be Benjamin Jeter (https://codeforces.com/profile/BenjaminJ) rather than ASU. Currently 5th active American in the top competitive programming platform, top 200 worldwide (https://codeforces.com/ratings/country/United%20States). That's elite.

In teams of 3, even one "super player" can make a big difference. Almost certainly carrying that team.

*St. Petersburg

I guess, like a lot of other sports at the college level, having a reputation that attracts the best competitive programmers (and a great coach to go along with it) doesn't hurt: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrey_Stankevich

This one has "Advent of code" vibes

When the driver and the platform are different entities (like Uber) you end up with these weird incentives. How would that happen in the Waymo case?

Some analyst will figure out the robots have less billable time on task and they’ll find some way to avoid the problem.

There’s a million ways to do it. Shadow ban locations, mistakenly pull up to the wrong location, etc.