From: Mat Schaffer <schapht@...>
Date: 2006-08-12T05:09:45+09:00
Subject: Re: [QUIZ] Pen and Paper (#90)


On Aug 11, 2006, at 3:48 PM, James Edward Gray II wrote:

> On Aug 11, 2006, at 2:42 PM, Mat Schaffer wrote:
>
>>
>> On Aug 11, 2006, at 2:39 PM, James Edward Gray II wrote:
>>
>>> On Aug 11, 2006, at 7:58 AM, Ruby Quiz wrote:
>>>
>>>> 	- Try to fill the biggest board you can with this script, in a
>>>> 	  reasonable amount of time (let's say 48 hours minus scripting  
>>>> time)
>>>
>>> [snip: lots of fast filled boards]
>>
>> Do you by any chance have a background in artificial  
>> intelligence?  That's really impressive how quickly you cranked  
>> out a solution to a problem I can't yet see a decent strategy  
>> for.  Hats off to you, my friend.
>
> I bet you are going to be very surprised when I post my pathetic  
> little toy.  If it's good at anything it's cheating...  ;)

$ gem install pen_and_paper --remote
Attempting remote installation of 'pen_and_paper'
ERROR:  While executing gem ... (Gem::GemNotFoundException)
     Could not find pen_and_paper (> 0) in the repository

Okay, well at least it wasn't THAT sort of cheating :)  Can't wait to  
see it!
-Mat