[extropy-chat] grand challenge - good blog

[Emlyn]

On 09/10/05, Alejandro Dubrovsky <alito at organicrobot.com> wrote:
> On Sat, 2005-10-08 at 15:44 -0500, Brian Atkins wrote:
> > Stanford has passed Red Team Too and is within a mile of the finish, looks like
> > it's $2 million in the bag for them. Their time will be well under 8 hours - you
> > had to beat 10 hours to win.
>
> And they've won it.  I've never stayed up till 7am cheering green pixels
> to move very slowly accross the screen and hoping they wouldn't turn
> red.  Will they have another one next year? Longer, with higher speed
> limits?
>

It looks from the site as though Red Team has won:

Red Team: 8h 26m
Stanford: 8h 28m
Red Team Too: 8h 33m

There are three other bots still on the course, but unlikely to finish
within the time limit at this stage.

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Emlyn

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