Aeturnalus

Yesterday was the Lynbrook Speech and Debate Banquet. The theme of the night was the 1920′s, but many people conveniently ignored the theme and just went for semiformal (including me). The first hour or so of the banquet was pretty boring, since all we did was play various card games in a really loud room. A certain group of people decided to exclude everyone else and play a very un-fun three person game masquerading as a four person game.

After the food was finally put out, there was a huge line for over half an hour. Some of the foods were penne with marinara sauce, rotini with pesto sauce, ravioli with alfredo sauce, and some sort of italian bread. Overall, the food was pretty good, and better than I expected for a club banquet after hearing stories of the FBLA one (they got an “all you can eat” 4-pizza buffet).

After we finished eating, the leadership team did a passing of the torch, giving gifts to the new 2009-2010 leaders. A highlight was Carl giving Belinda a scarf:

As you can see, Belinda is very short… …I read somewhere that short people are colder because they are farther from the sun… … So I got her this scarf.

We also got to see a slideshow of pictures from throughout the year, with amusing captions added in.

Finally, Alice Lin presented the book to Sean, in JPEG form. This was mostly because we ended up with too little time to have it printed and bound, so we’re giving it to him later. If you’d like an electronic copy, go to the LSD forums.

Patrick Lin and I found out something very interesting today: Partsbot 1.1 is much weaker than Partsbot 1.0.
If you look at VirtualGunExperiment’s results below, you will notice that the percentage of hits for 1.1 are much higher than those for 1.0.

Virtual bullet hit table
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RB Gun: 0.0%
HOT Gun: 8.542141230068337%
PT Gun: 20.25813692480359%
$PMT Gun: 8.114285714285714%
SGFT Gun: 62.88770053475936%

VirtualGunExperiment 1.1 vs PartsBot 1.1

Virtual bullet hit table
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RB Gun: 0.0%
HOT Gun: 61.03723404255319%
PT Gun: 23.00531914893617%
$PMT Gun: 59.24202127659575%
SGFT Gun: 78.53598014888338%

Another thing you notice here is that the HOT gun hits very often against 1.1. Therefore, for all you java students, I present to you the AntiPartsBotGun. This is designed to allow you to win against Partsbot 1.1 at least 60% of the time, even with a horrible movement. You may recognize the code.

	if (e.getName().contains("PartsBot 1.1")) {
			// Anti-PartsBot Gun
			setTurnGunRightRadians(robocode.util.Utils.normalRelativeAngle(absBearing
					- getGunHeadingRadians()));
			setFireBullet(1.9);
			out.println("AntiPartsBotGun");
		} else {
			// Circular Targeting

I have also attached a bot dedicated to only win battles against PartsBot, nothing else. Something has to be seriously wrong for it to win against other bots.
Download it here

This is a compilation of last year’s Northern Tier crew’s training videos.

Basic Canoe Strokes

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Message to FBLA Tech Committee:

PLEASE fix the photos page

The pictures box covers the right sidebar, which I’m reasonably sure isn’t intentional. If it is, its a pretty bad design flaw – it looks like its broken.

If you absolutely need to have a huge box, at least use CSS and center it, so it looks like it’s using a variation of Lightbox.js.

Fixing the box should only take a few minutes of your valuable time.

Members Page

Err… Please fix? It can’t be that hard…  Most people don’t have 3 last names, you know?

404 Errors

About Page, Officers page, Nova Awards History, Cords Information
FIX!

The news page is a little skinny, perhaps make it wider for readability?
Also, just as a check, the FBLA site runs a version of RT Replicant 2 with a different background, correct?