JMoe: The Mastermind

It often happens that the early morning just before I go to sleep can yield some interesting thoughts, and as such, I’ve decided to create a section for such musings. The first such musing is on the idea that spirtuality could actually be an evolutionary advantage. This idea originated with the idea that religion could be an evolutionary advantage, but through reading “Is God in Our Genes?” from Time Magazine lead to the refinement to spirituality as the advantage rather than religion. First, my original reason for considering religion as an evolutionary advantage, then we’ll get into the reasons in the Time article (which I will summarize and quote as appropriate).
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Command and Conquer 3: Tiberium Wars launched in the US on March 27th 2007. I picked up a copy of the Kane Edition (aka the Collector’s Edition) on release day, and spent most of Spring Break playing the game. It’s time for a full review. I will try to avoid spoilers, but you might consider some of the full text a spoiler. I’ll put it as part of an exceprt so that you don’t need to read potential spoilers if you don’t want.

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I was hoping to have more information for this post, but I’ll have to settle for posting our team document. The Battlecode organizers never got around to updating the website, and so I don’t have the actual final results. You can grab the PDF at the bottom of this post. Overall our team worked out reasonably well. We needed more time to tweak and optimize behaviors, and a lot of the strategy just didn’t work out as well as it should have. Still, I’m happy to settle for winning an award and getting the credits for the class.

Battlecode Strategy Writeup