Finding Momentum

So for our CS188 (Arti­fi­cial Intel­li­gence) project, Capture-the-Flag Pac-Man, I’m respon­si­ble for writ­ing a script that does some pro­cess­ing and analy­sis on a game board, sim­u­lat­ing a Pac-Man agent (my other group mem­bers are respon­si­ble for far cooler things, like infer­ence and heuris­tics, but humor me here).

I most def­i­nitely need at least sev­eral hours of com­pu­ta­tion time to get the results I need, but fig­ured that I’d do best by divid­ing up the labor between CPUs. So last night I set five cores’ worth of com­pu­ta­tional power a-workin’–1 on my desk­top, 2 on my lap­top and 2 remote cores on Hsiu-Fan’s sweet desktop.

(Then I dis­con­nected some­time last night from Hsiu-Fan’s com­puter, abruptly killing my processes. I’m back on using UNIX screen because I read I can remotely detach win­dows and processes, but I’m actu­ally not sure if the process keeps chug­gin’ in the case when your pro­gram spawns X win­dows and you’ve disconnected).

So humor me here, I feel pretty awe­some right now. My room’s a bit warm with the sheer heat dis­si­pa­tion from my com­put­ers, but at least that negates the need for human com­pan­ion­ship. Tally-ho!

— Edit: the joys of Python: