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Anki Contest 2014

Driven to win.

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Speed . Accuracy . Efficiency

Based in San Francisco, Anki is dedicated to bringing artificial intelligence and robotics into our everyday lives.


Its first product, Anki DRIVE, was named one of “The 25 Best Inventions of 2013” by TIME Magazine. Anki DRIVE is battle racing for the real world. With advanced artificial intelligence, each car thinks for itself and has one goal in mind: victory. After debuting on stage at Apple’s 2013 WWDC keynote following an introduction by Tim Cook, Anki DRIVE is currently on sale through all Apple retail stores (U.S. & Canada), Apple.com and Anki.com.


Participants in some regions of the world may be invited to check-out Anki's SDK, and participate in an Anki SDK competition. More information about this is available for participants that complete the contest.


The Prizes

  • 1st place: The full suite of Anki products* plus an iPad Mini Retina, 128GB, Wifi (total value $1,070)
  • 2nd place: The full suite of Anki products* plus an iPod Touch 64GB (total value $770)
  • 3rd place: The full suite of Anki products* (total value $370)
  • Top 10 places: An exclusive Anki t-shirt


*Specifically: The Anki Starter Kit + Rho + Katal + an extra Fast Charger
In the event of a tie, the winner will be determined by the earlier-submitted score.



About Anki


Based in San Francisco, Anki is dedicated to bringing artificial intelligence and robotics into our everyday lives.
Its first product, Anki DRIVE, was named one of “The 25 Best Inventions of 2013” by TIME Magazine. Anki DRIVE is battle racing for the real world. With advanced artificial intelligence, each car thinks for itself and has one goal in mind: victory. After debuting on stage at Apple’s 2013 WWDC keynote following an introduction by Tim Cook, Anki DRIVE is currently on sale through all Apple retail stores (U.S. & Canada), Apple.com and Anki.com.
The company is backed by Andreessen Horowitz, Index Ventures and Two Sigma. Anki (pronounced AHN-key) means “to learn by heart.” To connect with Anki, Like us on Facebook, follow us on Twitter (@anki), or subscribe to us on YouTube.

Rules

  • All the challenges will have a predetermined score. Score of a game is calculated using Bayesian Approximation
  • This contest will appeal to programmers who're interested in interesting algorithmic challenges, AI challenges and of course general programming
  • HackerRank admins decision will be final
  • Please refrain from discussing strategy during the contest.
  • Any case of code plagiarism will result in disqualification of both the users from the contest. We've a fairly good plagiarism detector that works at the opcode level.
  • You can code directly on our interface. We support 20 major languages. You can have a look at the environment in which we run your code