Len Payne

Backstory

I am the CTO of a software company that builds tools for food banks and other hunger relief organizations. I was introduced to BattleSnake through a post on the Canada.ai Slack. Seeing a competition that pits people to code against each other, that helps benefit Food Banks Canada? That's awesome. I grabbed some of my team and we started building a Snake in our spare time out of PHP scraps and gumption. It went... okay. Stay Home and Code (SHAC) came and went, and we... well, we participated. Since SHAC, I built a new snake framework in a different set of technologies (still PHP, just not the same bits of PHP.) It's smarter, and I've had a lot of fun with the Summer League challenges. But it's still not doing any ML/DL/RL of any kind. We're sticking to decision trees and A* algorithms along a graded map. It's put the snake in a higher tier, but not quite battling for supremacy with Pruzze yet.

Technologies

AWS PHP

Joined April 7, 2020

Challenger OV-099

Snake tweaked specifically to take on challenges.

Private PHP Friendly Huggable AWS Latency
Darktooth

Snake built with Swoole and PHP. Uses a graded map and the A* algorithm for pathfinding.

Private Squads PHP Clueless AWS Latency
Dunkelzahn

Second deployment of my primary snake. Designed to be second-fiddle in squad games.

Private Squads PHP Classy AWS Latency
Link2Feed

We made this in PHP in our spare time in the two weeks leading up to Stay Home and Code. It is 100% decision-tree based, and learns nothing. Dumb as rocks, and a little old school. Built in Amphp for the HTTP layer, because we felt Symfony was overkill for an API.

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Shai-Hulud

"Bless the Maker and His water. Bless the coming and going of Him. May His passage cleanse the world. May He keep the world for His people." -Frank Herbert

Private PHP Hungry AWS Latency