{"id":671,"date":"2026-05-04T20:55:26","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T00:55:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stephendavies.org\/data420\/?p=671"},"modified":"2026-05-04T20:55:26","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T00:55:26","slug":"contest-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/stephendavies.org\/data420\/index.php\/2026\/05\/04\/contest-update\/","title":{"rendered":"Contest update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Stephen&#8217;s trying sooooo hard to complete a fair contest before final grades are due at noon tomorrow&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>The good news is that only a couple of players (Garrett and Belen: tsk, tsk) are crashing my simulator with errors.<\/p>\n<p>The bad news is that when I run everyone&#8217;s rules-based and LLM players against each other, it takes about one hour to run 4 steps. If I can get it crash-free, and start it tonight before <i>I<\/i> crash, I can probably get a 50-iteration competition to complete in time. Stay tuned&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stephen&#8217;s trying sooooo hard to complete a fair contest before final grades are due at noon tomorrow&#8230; The good news is that only a couple of players (Garrett and Belen: tsk, tsk) are crashing my simulator with errors. The bad news is that when I run everyone&#8217;s rules-based and LLM players against each other, it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/stephendavies.org\/data420\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/671","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/stephendavies.org\/data420\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/stephendavies.org\/data420\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stephendavies.org\/data420\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stephendavies.org\/data420\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=671"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/stephendavies.org\/data420\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/671\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":672,"href":"http:\/\/stephendavies.org\/data420\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/671\/revisions\/672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/stephendavies.org\/data420\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stephendavies.org\/data420\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stephendavies.org\/data420\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}