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  • TicTacToe AI Making Incorrect Decisions

    - by Chris Douglass
    A little background: as a way to learn multinode trees in C++, I decided to generate all possible TicTacToe boards and store them in a tree such that the branch beginning at a node are all boards that can follow from that node, and the children of a node are boards that follow in one move. After that, I thought it would be fun to write an AI to play TicTacToe using that tree as a decision tree. TTT is a solvable problem where a perfect player will never lose, so it seemed an easy AI to code for my first time trying an AI. Now when I first implemented the AI, I went back and added two fields to each node upon generation: the # of times X will win & the # of times O will win in all children below that node. I figured the best solution was to simply have my AI on each move choose and go down the subtree where it wins the most times. Then I discovered that while it plays perfect most of the time, I found ways where I could beat it. It wasn't a problem with my code, simply a problem with the way I had the AI choose it's path. Then I decided to have it choose the tree with either the maximum wins for the computer or the maximum losses for the human, whichever was more. This made it perform BETTER, but still not perfect. I could still beat it. So I have two ideas and I'm hoping for input on which is better: 1) Instead of maximizing the wins or losses, instead I could assign values of 1 for a win, 0 for a draw, and -1 for a loss. Then choosing the tree with the highest value will be the best move because that next node can't be a move that results in a loss. It's an easy change in the board generation, but it retains the same search space and memory usage. Or... 2) During board generation, if there is a board such that either X or O will win in their next move, only the child that prevents that win will be generated. No other child nodes will be considered, and then generation will proceed as normal after that. It shrinks the size of the tree, but then I have to implement an algorithm to determine if there is a one move win and I think that can only be done in linear time (making board generation a lot slower I think?) Which is better, or is there an even better solution?

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  • post_save signal on m2m field

    - by Dmitry Shevchenko
    I have a pretty generic Article model, with m2m relation to Tag model. I want to keep count of each tag usage, i think the best way would be to denormalise count field on Tag model and update it each time Article being saved. How can i accomplish this, or maybe there's a better way?

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  • NSPredicate of special characters - iPhone

    - by ncohen
    Hi everyone, I'm trying to make a predicate that includes special characters For example: [[myIngredients filteredSetUsingPredicate:[NSPredicate predicateWithFormat:@"name BEGINSWITH[c] %@", [alphabet objectAtIndex:idx]]]; Here I will get all the ingredient which starts with (let say for idx = 5) 'e'. As I have to do my app in english and french, some ingredients start with special character like 'é' or even 'œ' for 'o'. How can I include these special characters in my predicate? Best

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  • Is there any tool to standardize format of C++ code?

    - by BillyONeal
    Hello, all :) I'm looking for a tool that works on Windows to reformat some C++ code in my codebase. Essentially, I've got some code I wrote a while ago that I'd like to use, but it doesn't match the style I'm using in a more recent project. What's the best way to reformat C++ code in a standard manner? Billy3

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  • Lightweight multi os monitoring plateform

    - by user293995
    Hi, I have a project where the is windows, freebsd and linux servers. I have to monitor some services : mysql replication status www status status with regexp on a webpage space on disk Is there open source software to do this and rapid to deploy ? Thanks in advance Best regards

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  • jQuery UI Dialog and gif + text display

    - by bogumbiker
    Hello, What is proper way to display a gif image into the dialog with text with nice formatting etc.. So far here is my code: Copy code var $dialog = jQuery('<div></div>').html('<p>Sending your message...</p><img src="../images/AjaxWait.gif"/>') however by doing this the gif is not aligned nicely to the text, etc What is the best way to format content of the dialog? thanks bogumbiker

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  • How to clip a rectangle from a tiff?

    - by TooFat
    I have a Winforms Gui in C# that allows a user to draw a rectangle on a display of a tiff and save the position, height, width etc. Basically, what I want to do is take the saved position, height and width of the rectangle and clip that area into a sep. bitmap that can then be passed to sep. method that will just OCR the new clip of the bitmap only. What is the best way to do this?

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  • In Java What is the guaranteed way to get a FileLock from FileChannel while accessing a RandomAcces

    - by narasimha.bhat
    I am trying to use FileLock lock(long position, long size,boolean shared) in FileChannel object As per the javadoc it can throw OverlappingFileLockException. When I create a test program with 2 threads lock method seems to be waiting to acquire the lock (both exclusive and non exclusive) But when the number threads increases in the acutal scenario over lapping file lock exception is thrown and processing slows down due the block at File lock table. What is the best way to acquire lock avoiding the OverlappingFileLockException ?

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  • How do you display a binary search tree?

    - by fakeit
    I'm being asked to display a binary search tree in sorted order. The nodes of the tree contain strings. I'm not exactly sure what the best way is to attack this problem. Should I be traversing the tree and displaying as I go? Should I flatten the tree into an array and then use a sorting algorithm before I display? I'm not looking for the actual code, just a guide where to go next.

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  • DropDownList View Model

    - by Jemes
    I'm trying to produce a dropdownlist for GetAllRoles using the role provider. I can produce the drop down in a controller using ViewData but I would like to use a View Model to produce the dropdown, but I'm unsure of the best way to create the list using a View Model? public ActionResult GetAllRoles() { ViewData["Roles"] = new SelectList(Roles.GetAllRoles()); return View(); }

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  • Why is it useful to count the number of bits?

    - by Scorchin
    I've seen the numerous questions about counting the number of set bits in a insert type of input, but why is it useful? For those looking for algorithms about bit counting, look here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1517848/counting-common-bits-in-a-sequence-of-unsigned-longs http://stackoverflow.com/questions/472325/fastest-way-to-count-number-of-bit-transitions-in-an-unsigned-int http://stackoverflow.com/questions/109023/best-algorithm-to-count-the-number-of-set-bits-in-a-32-bit-integer

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  • How do I put files in the TFS Build drop location

    - by Scott Langham
    Hi, I'm new to using TFS build. I've got a build defined that runs as a continuous integration. It creates a drop folder, but there's nothing in it. What's the best practice for moving stuff in the drop folder? I've seen a Binaries folder, do I need to copy things into their, or do I alter the TFSbuild.proj in some way to copy the files I want to the drop folder? Thanks.

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  • Create a Cumulative Sum Column in MySQL

    - by Kirk
    I have a table that looks like this: id count 1 100 2 50 3 10 I want to add a new column called cumulative_sum, so the table would look like this: id count cumulative_sum 1 100 100 2 50 150 3 10 160 Is there a MySQL update statement that can do this easily? What's the best way to accomplish this?

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  • Robust Javascript parser in Java

    - by Misha Koshelev
    Dear All: I am looking for a robust Javascript parser written in Java - by which I mean a Javascript parser that is able to handle most real world Javascript. I am only interested in parsing Javascript, not in executing it. I have found Rhino: http://groups.google.com/group/mozilla.dev.tech.js-engine.rhino/browse_thread/thread/1eff23a8ee57b991 Am I missing anything? Is this the best solution? Thank you! Misha

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  • How to develop a Nightly Builder

    - by allenzzzxd
    Hello, I was told to create a tool like a Nightly Builder for a JUnit project. It's a client-server project with oracle database.The tests are based on QTP. Also there is a test interface written on C#. The tester can click on the interface to choose which tests to run and get a report from each test. So I have to make this procedure automated. So what tools should I use? Thanks in advance Best regards

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  • Windows path in python

    - by Gareth
    Hi all. What is the best way to represent a windows directory, for example "C:\meshes\as"? I have been trying to modify a script but it never works because I can't seem to get the directory right, I assume because of the '\' acting as escape character? Thanks, Gareth

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  • Using PyLab to create a 2D graph from two separate lists

    - by user324333
    Hey Guys, This seems like a basic problem with an easy answer but I simply cannot figure it out no matter how much I try. I am trying to create a line graph based on two lists. For my x-axis, I want my list to be a set of strings. x_axis_list = ["Jan-06","Jul-06","Jan-07","Jul-07","Jan-08"] y_axis_list = [5,7,6,8,9] Any suggestions on how to best graph these items?

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  • RichEdit's EM_AUTOURLDETECT message not always sent

    - by HX_unbanned
    To describe this issue, the best would that you would test my application with following usecase: Application: http://ubuntuone.com/p/nF/ Open application; Click on the ""captioned button; Click on same button again; Click on the same button again. As you can see - URL is correctly detected in first expanding, but in any further is not. Hope to have fix for this issue with your help :)

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