2014 年 3 月 – Shadow Forest

2014-03-30

SAD STORY

3度角，69分的遗憾

196分，三轮分别是64 94 102。
最后一轮开始前的半小时是很开心的。高中组比赛结束，过来协助我们，他们的动作之快让我们简直无法相提并论。占住高中组的比赛场地调试什么的，不让裁判拆场地什么的……玩机器人真他喵的开心。
本以为这60分稳拿，省赛肯定能进了，谁知道轮子卡在了开始的地方，死活就是下不来。现在想来，估计是把前面的90度伺服马达改成了87度导致的。
加上60分，这个分数就是162，全场最高……但是再去说这些没有什么太大的意义。后面的解决方案再怎么说，也是之后的事情了。
虽然不太可能，但还是看造化吧。It’s time to move, what should I do? What can I do? …

2014-03-29

the email from ripple labs

Team e-mail

SJoshua,
The following is a message from the team captain of your World Community Grid team.
Team,
We’re writing to you with the sad news that we have decided to phase out the Computing for Good giveaway–in its current form–over the next month. This decision was not easy.
We made this decision for two main reasons:
To re-focus our strategy for XRP distribution
The Computing for Good giveaway system is in desperate need of a fundamental re-architecting
Our new giveaway strategy
Right now, the most pressing need for the Ripple ecosystem is on-boarding more gateways. In service to attracting more gateways, we will focus engineering resources on user giveaways that help gateways attract new customers.
Issues with Computing for Good
Recent issues that you may have noticed include:
World Community Grid changed its website several days ago, which in turn broke our point calculation system because we relied on the website to perform payout calculations.
Computing for Good led to a small set of community members setting up mining operations to maximize their daily take – 1% of the participants earn 50% of the XRP disbursed daily.
We’ve also seen a small set of team members brute force attack other World Community Grid (WCG) accounts to register others’ computing time for their own XRP redemption. This activity is unacceptable and unfair to team members who just want to do good.
The WCG API used in the giveaway architecture is sometimes unreliable, which disrupts timely payouts.
We’re winding down the giveaway during April 2014, and will first shut off new user registration, and then slowly decrease the amount of daily distributed XRP. In the meantime, we’re committed to honoring all missed payouts. Please write into support@ripple.com with your WCG username, the dates that you have not received payouts for, and a screenshot of your “My Statistics” page from the WGC webpage for any dates that are missing or incorrect on your Computing for Good stats page.
We’re also searching for a suitable partner who can help us re-build the Computing for Good giveaway and make it more robust and better than it was before!
THANK YOU all for participating in Computing for Good. Team Ripple Labs on World Community Grid grew to 22,000 team members, making it the largest team of all time, and generated 36,880 years of run-time – wow, we are so grateful! Your contribution has surely been a significant resource for scientific researchers.
Regards,
The Ripple Labs team
Your captain,
ripplelabs

2014-03-27

玩机器人还是被机器人玩，这是个问题。

WE HAVE NO TIME

之前提到过，距离比赛还有两个周的时候我突然被叫去参加机器人“综合技能”比赛。本来是我们班的某名女同学，不过由于她认为这真他喵的麻烦所以就没去了……大概应该谢谢她？
现在，距离“两个周”的比赛只剩下“两个晚上”了。
场地上周六才刚刚送到，时间太少太少。18个队，前2名可以免费升省赛，前7名可以自费升省赛，后面的？洗洗睡吧。
周三周四，这两天晚上我们都晚上九点、十点回家。但是说实话，我们的效率正如老师说的，太低。Partner是“太慢、没有紧迫感”，而我是“太过于理想化”。老师说的正是如此，但是或许我这么久以来并没有意识到这是我的弱点吧。另一个问题是“没有像搭档一样，而是各做各的”——这也是个不小的问题。还剩下一个中午、一个晚上，我们能契合好吗？我们可以准备好所有的程序吗？我们能确保比赛进程中不出现各种各样的问题吗？在NOIP竞赛的时候我都未曾有过的疑惑——或者说紧张，现在却不知道从哪里悄悄冒了出来。机器人和程序不同，不确定的因素太多。或许正因为我写过程序，“怎么写就是什么样的”，正是“过于理想化”了吧……
我应该怎么做呢？怎么做才好呢？我们是玩机器人呢？还是被机器人玩呢？

很累？

我有两个Skill，一个是早上根据剩余作业量自动在正好的时间起床，到校时间每天误差不超过正负1分；另一个是下午100%在预铃-上课铃间的1分钟到达教室。不过第二个技能最近变成每次到座位都响起预铃，因为班主任表示预铃前没到教室的杀无赦……
上面扯了两句其实无非就是想说我一天睡五个小时也是够的，虽然不太好但是必要的话……
这几天每天去训练其实是很开心的，每天晚上的时间或许应该说度过的更有意义了。只不过，四个小时一个TASK的速度实在不忍直视……所以一定要进省赛，这样就能有更多的时间准备了吧。May.1st->May.3rd，Ready。