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From: Steve Hoelzer on 7 May 2008 15:14
"Yi Cao" <y.cao(a)cranfield.ac.uk> wrote in message
<fvstsb$m4n$1(a)fred.mathworks.com>...
> "Steve Hoelzer" <shoelzer(a)gmail.com> wrote in message
> <fvsqp9$8gg$1(a)fred.mathworks.com>...
> > No. The same code must give the same score every time it
> > runs. Otherwise, a new type of random variable "tuning" is
> > possible: submitting the same code multiple times. I too
> > wish that magic number tuning was not a part of the
> contest,
> > but I don't think it can be programmatically enforced.
> >
> > Steve
>
> However, currently, it is already possible to resubmit the
> same code several time to get the best score because the
> same code wont get the same result on timeing.
>
> Yi

True, but the timing variation is small and has little
impact on score compared to varying the random number seed.

That said, I would support a change to the scoring function
such that run time is rounded to the nearest second. That
should mostly eliminate the effect of timing variation.

Steve

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