It'll be almost like vacation, anyway. Only twenty-eight teams in the league. Though after years of watching those children flying, football is like watching slugs bash into each other. Also, if we assume that Dragon Army fought every Army exactly once not sure why we would assume this then we get about armies. The Ansible wikia has it at a minimum of 15 armies - but I do think that number is a bit low I also think the launchie count is very low - it'd make sense for at least one launch intake per year - with several years before being posted into an army.
Now, when Ender was graduated out of Battle School, almost half of the other army commanders were replaced with his toon leaders and seconds, along with Bean. That's 11 replacements - meaning at least 20 armies Ender had 5 toons. Your timeframe of 5 weeks is actually pretty good - Dragon's first game is 9 weeks early p - Orbit , and the last game with the formation is a month before the regular training period p However, they start throwing two battles a day at the Dragon army after only one week.
Assuming this tempo is maintained for the whole period, we get 63 battles. On the other hand, this tempo might not have been kept up because of the other armies needing rest though, there's nothing to say that the other armies were fighting each other regularly after Dragon started - this would mean a minimum of about 35 games.
So - unless anyone can present more evidence, the best we can say is somewhere between 20 and And probably more like about Sign up to join this community. The best answers are voted up and rise to the top. Stack Overflow for Teams — Collaborate and share knowledge with a private group.
Create a free Team What is Teams? Learn more. How many armies are there in Battle School? Ask Question. Ender Wiggin made the strategic decision to veer away from the normal structure, and he divided his army into 5 Toons of 8 soldiers, and further diversified his team by creating a special toon under Bean, whose job was to come up with "impossible" situations and possible solutions.
Bean's Toon was comprised of members from each of the other 5 Toons. Additionally, Ender gave greater control to his toon leaders, relying on them to independently assess situations in the Battle Room and make their own decisions; this gave his army an adaptability that was far superior to the other armies in the school. While most other armies were highly structured and rigid, Ender's army was fluid and flexible.
The primary method of assessment in the Battle School were the battles between armies, which normally occurred once every two weeks. Commanders were expected to train their armies to work together in order to defeat the opposing armies.
In most cases, the style of battles had stagnated with armies using rigid formations that left little room for independent action and adaptability. Ender Wiggin's promotion to Salamander Army from his launch group began a period of innovation in the Battle Room, with Ender's tactical skill and imagination having changed the game for the rest of the students.
As Ender moved through armies and was promoted, his influence was seen throughout the school as students copied his techniques and were forced to adapt to new battle conditions. Outside of the Battle Room, soldiers lived the life of typical military school students, staying together in a barracks, eating together and attending classes. The United States, alarmed at China's campaign to bring Taiwan under its control, has also begun an ambitious program to 'reshore' its semiconductor manufacturing after allowing much of it to migrate to Taiwan.
Around 80 percent of the world's semiconductor production capacity is in Asia, and nearly all the most advanced logic chip production is in Taiwan. No Chinese semiconductor foundry has yet achieved the 5-nanometer processing needed to make Alibaba's new ARM-based chip, so it is still beholden to Taiwan for manufacturing.
But the implications of Alibaba's general choice of Arm and RISC-V instruction set architectures is perhaps more consequential for the long term. An instruction set architecture, or ISA, is the language in which software talks to hardware, and thus determines the kind of software that can run on a particular chip.
Most servers use CPUs based on Intel's x86 instruction set architecture. But UK-based Arm, which licenses its instruction set architecture to chip designers, has been gaining a foothold in this market. RISC-V, which refers to the fifth generation of an open-source reduced instruction set computer architecture created by U. This past June, China hosted the fourth annual RISC-V summit, bringing together industry, academia, and government to talk about the future of the architecture.
In the wake of the U. Unable to buy Intel chips because of the sanctions, Huawei most recently sold its x86 server unit to a company owned by China's Henan province. From the beginning, the company indicated that it intended to open the CPU's source code—the hardware description language that describes the structure and behavior of the CPU core's electronic circuits.
It has now done so… with little fanfare. Its Yitian server system on a chip SoC , manufactured by Taiwan's TSMC, will have a total of Arm-based cores, with 60 billion integrated transistors and a top clock speed of 3.
Alibaba said it is the first server processor compatible with the latest Armv9 architecture. Alibaba said the SoC achieved a score of in SPECint a standard benchmark for measuring CPU integer processing power , surpassing that of the current state-of-the-art Arm server processor based on Armv8 by 20 percent in performance and 50 percent in energy efficiency.
The company also announced the development of proprietary servers, under the brand name Panjiu , developed for the next-generation of cloud-native infrastructure. By separating computing from storage, the servers are optimized for both general-purpose and specialized AI computing, as well as high-performance storage.
The company vowed to provide more services and support for RISC-V development tools, software development kits, and customized cores in the future. Consultant Gwennap suggests that Alibaba's Arm and RISC-V efforts are experiments more than commercial endeavors, noting that Alibaba is still using x86 Intel chips for the vast majority of its internal use. Alibaba's new Arm-based server chip will be used in Alibaba datacenters to provide cloud services to customers..
The company will continue to offer Intel-based services, so it's up to customers to choose Arm over xbased chips. When Amazon did something similar a few years ago, there was little uptake for the Arm-based chips.
But true semiconductor independence will require China to develop its own extreme ultraviolet lithography machines , required to etch microscopic circuits on silicon. SMIC , China's main chip foundry, can't provide anything smaller than 14 nm. SMIC claims to have mastered the 3nm chip process in the lab and is trying to buy the EUV lithography machines necessary for production from ASML, the Dutch company that currently has a monopoly on the critical equipment.
But the United States is intent on blocking the sale. But getting that technology out of the lab and into a machine remains many years away. Japanese startup working towards autonomous robots that can do useful work inside and outside the space station. Late last year, Japanese robotics startup GITAI sent their S1 robotic arm up to the International Space Station as part of a commercial airlock extension module to test out some useful space-based autonomy.
Everything moves pretty slowly on the ISS, so it wasn't until last month that NASA astronauts installed the S1 arm and GITAI was able to put the system through its paces —or rather, sit in comfy chairs on Earth and watch the arm do most of its tasks by itself, because that's the dream, right?
So what's next for commercial autonomous robotics in space? One of the advantages of working in space is that it's a highly structured environment. Microgravity can be somewhat unpredictable, but you have a very good idea of the characteristics of objects and even of lighting because everything that's up there is excessively well defined. So, stuff like using a two-finger gripper for relatively high precision tasks is totally possible, because the variation that the system has to deal with is low.
Of course, things can always go wrong, so GITAI also tested teleop procedures from Houston to make sure that having humans in the loop was also an effective way of completing tasks. Since full autonomy is vastly more difficult than almost full autonomy, occasional teleop is probably going to be critical for space robots of all kinds.
GITAI will apply the general-purpose autonomous space robotics technology, know-how, and experience acquired through this tech demo to develop extra-vehicular robotics EVR that can execute docking, repair, and maintenance tasks for On-Orbit Servicing OOS or conduct various activities for lunar exploration and lunar base construction.
I'm sure you did many tests with the system on the ground before sending it to the ISS. Carn Carby, the leader of Rabbit Army, is gracious to Ender and in the commanders' mess he is the only one who treats Ender well. Even Dink and Petra do not seem to be Ender's friends anymore. Ender's army fights and beats Petra's Phoenix Army the next day. By the end of the week they have fought seven straight battles and won them all.
Ender begins studying videos of the first and second invasion to learn strategy, and it is from the buggers that he begins learning new modes of attack. He is brought in to speak to Anderson and Graff, and they ask him about his army. Ender is cocky and antagonistic, and challenges them to give him a good battle. They tell him he has a fight in ten minutes his army's second fight of the day against Salamander Army, and by the time Ender's troops are ready his opponents have already set up position.
Ender defeats them quickly and easily but is angered that the fight was not fair. He speaks rudely to Anderson and releases his army instantly. Only in hindsight does Ender realize that not only did he defeat Bonzo's army in a fight where they had an advantage, but he did not go through with the normal ceremonial surrender.
He realizes that his snub will whip Bonzo's hatred into a frenzy. Ender has Bean come to his room and has a talk with him.
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