The educational aspect of the competition is incredibly important of
course! However, I think there's a big distinction here. Google are
running a competition which has intrinsic educational value. That does not
make it their responsibility to extract that educational value for you. As
long as
On Saturday, April 26, 2014 2:05:36 PM UTC-4, Aaron Chan wrote:
> It's top 1000 T-shirts. Regardless, it's just about the same as the TopCoder
> open, which also only the top 24 people gets on site invites.
Yeah, and it is also a big waste of time from a competitive aspect.
Tournaments used to h
Actually, GCJ does a really good job with analysis publication and the
insights it gives...
If you're frustrated by the competitive aspect, maybe you can choose a
different contest? :)
On Sat, Apr 26, 2014 at 8:12 PM, Andres Felipe Ruiz <
andresfelip...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Vexorian,
>
> I have
Vexorian,
I have seen you around marathons for a while, and you of all people should
know how this works... it's really unexpected seeing someone with the
trajectory you have complaining for such things.
ASDF
On Apr 26, 2014 12:35 PM, "Stanislav Zholnin"
wrote:
> Vexorian,
>
> The fact that the
Vexorian,
The fact that there are so many very competitive contestor and that there are
some not so competivie contestors (like me and it seems you too) is not problem
of Google Codejam organizers. This is just how life is.
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It's top 1000 T-shirts. Regardless, it's just about the same as the TopCoder
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>Such a post is just unfair towards the organizers.
>They organize a competition. They do not organize a course.
As a competition, codejam is really a waste of time. It is totally exclusive,
top 25 advance? That's basically no one. 500 t-shirts? Also a very small
proportion and AFAIK t-shirts do
I agree with bigonion.
There are zillions of problems with analysis on the internet from all different
contests. There are hundreds (around two hundreds) problems from previous years
of Codejam with analysis.
Also important that QR problems have the least possible relevance for solving
R1 prob
Such a post is just unfair towards the organizers.
They organize a competition. They do not organize a course.
If you really needed an explanation earlier, you could just post a question on
this very forum. I bet someone would be willing to give you a full solution
with additional explanation on
I agree Alex. By the way it should be something they already had before the
contest start, and they probably have, so I don't understand why not
disclose.
On Thu, Apr 24, 2014 at 6:50 PM, Alex Polozov wrote:
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>
> By the way, one could argue that such a delay diminishes the educational
> value of
On Friday, April 25, 2014 12:50:05 AM UTC+3, Alex Polozov wrote:
> On Wednesday, April 16, 2014 1:29:22 PM UTC-7, Bartholomew Furrow wrote:
>
> > You must not have competed two years ago. We used to be way later. :-)
>
> >
>
> >
>
> > We'll get them up soon™, and email this list when they're
On Wednesday, April 16, 2014 1:29:22 PM UTC-7, Bartholomew Furrow wrote:
> You must not have competed two years ago. We used to be way later. :-)
>
>
> We'll get them up soon™, and email this list when they're there. Sorry for
> the delay!
>
>
>
>
>
> On Wed, Apr 16, 2014 at 8:29 AM, Satyaj
You must not have competed two years ago. We used to be *way* later. :-)
We'll get them up soon™, and email this list when they're there. Sorry for
the delay!
On Wed, Apr 16, 2014 at 8:29 AM, Satyajit Bhadange <
satyajit.bhada...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Why there is no contest analysis for qualific
Why there is no contest analysis for qualification round 2014 ?
GCJ team is never this late to put contest analysis.
Thanks & Regards,
*Satyajit Bhadange*
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