[gcj] Problem-Preparation Guide and More

Code Jammers, With 2011 upon us and the next Code Jam only a few months away, it seems like a good time to do a few site updates that we've had in the works. This update has a focus on educational content: our old "Practice and Learn

Re: [gcj] Country statistics

> > I can't confirm those numbers or competitors/countries are eligible, but I > can confirm that the one in rank #28 (from UK) is ineligible, don't know how > come. > That person chose to represent the U.K., but lives in Africa or Arabia. -- You received this message because you are subscribed

Re: [gcj] Wrong auth domain when clicking "Participate"

Ah, you've stumbled into the AJAX API Playground easter egg on the Code Jam site. Good job! OK, it's possible that this isn't deliberate. I suspect that this derives from http://code.google.com/apis/ajax/playground also being hosted on code.google.com; indeed, they seem to share that particular

Re: [gcj] Codejam Schedule

Hi Ed, We re-evaluate our schedule every year, and we'll be sure to consult this mailing list next year as well. Unfortunately we'll almost certainly collide with exams somewhere; what country are you in, and which rounds conflict? Best, Bartholomew On Fri, Apr 8, 2011 at 1:15 PM, Ed wrote: >

[gcj] Registration for Google Code Jam 2011 is Open!

> > Ladies and Gentleman, start your editors: registration for Google Code Jam 2011 is now open! > Visit http://code.google.com/codejam to register, read the Terms, check out the FAQ , and practice

Re: [gcj] Registration for Google Code Jam 2011 is Open!

It's possible that some of you had noticed this. On Fri, Apr 8, 2011 at 5:30 PM, Bartholomew Furrow wrote: > Ladies and Gentleman, start your editors: registration for Google Code Jam > 2011 is now open! > >> > Visit http://code.google.com/codejam to register,

Re: [gcj] Change of Nickname

Eric, Contact code...@google.com with your desired nickname and we can help you out. Bartholomew On Fri, Apr 8, 2011 at 10:54 PM, Eric Kulcyk wrote: > Hello, > > Is there any possibility of changing my Nickname for the code jam. I > picked a silly one a few years ago when I wasn't serious

Re: [gcj] Query regarding rankings

Umer, >1. The ranking of CJ are stored somewhere we can refer to our potential >employers? > > They're stored on a public scoreboard, under your handle. We're thinking about ways to make it so that they can verify that handle belongs to your email address. > >1. Are rankings based

Re: [gcj] Re: Programming Languages

> > Yes, there is no problem in using two or more different programming > languages to solve a problem. However, all of them must be *freely* > and *easily* available. We actually changed that rule this year, because we didn't define "easily" clearly. Now it just says freely (but the links are s

Re: [gcj] Can I enter my shipping information later?

Hi Stonos, That's the exact intention of that section: so that you don't need to fill in your information until we need it. Feel free to leave it blank for now, though bear in mind that if you do win a shirt, you'll have a limited amount of time to fill it in. Cheers! Bartholomew On Tue, Apr 26

Re: [gcj] Re: Can I enter my shipping information later?

Top 1000 this year for a shirt, actually. On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 8:34 AM, Leopoldo Taravilse wrote: > It's pretty harder.. you have to be at the top 500 for the T-shirt if it's > like the past two years. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "google

Re: [gcj] Question to the admins

I'm excited that you're starting up this site, Ahmed, and I hope we'll be able to add some tools for you to list soon! As for the question of how to verify identity, by design it should currently be impossible. We're definitely willing to think about ways of making identity verifiable with the ex

Re: [gcj] Re: minimum scalar

> > i don't understand the meaning of this sentence : "Choose two > permutations such that the scalar product of your two new vectors is > the smallest possible, and output that minimum scalar product. " > > Why two??? > One permutation for each of the vectors. -- You received this message becau

Re: [gcj] How do you avoid frauds?

> > What happens if someone registered in the competition sends the > problems to another person and that person resolves the problem before > enter to the contest, so the only thing the last person does is to > upload the code?... > No timers start when you start reading a problem, so sharing the

Re: [gcj] Minimum Points needed to Qualify Google Code Jam

This year it's 25. On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 9:22 PM, Rahul Gulati wrote: > There is a minimum score that you need in the Qualification round to go to > the next round. > > > On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 9:49 PM, Satyajit Bhadange < > satyajit.bhada...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I was just practicin

Re: [gcj] How do you avoid frauds?

> > For me its a challange to my personal skills. If anybody wants to cheat - > please do, I really do not mind. > I mind! I mind! Everyone should please feel free *not* to cheat. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "google-codejam" group. To post to t

Re: [gcj] Using a different language

Feel free to use any language you like within the strictures of the rules; the preferred language that we asked you for is for our interest only. Good luck! Bartholomew On Fri, May 6, 2011 at 1:41 PM, Shay Falador wrote: > Dear codejam staff, > I have a question regarding programming languages

Re: [gcj] Regarding MapReduce

Umer and Marcelo: Yes, as long as you use freely-available programming languages as described in the Terms. Cheers, Bartholomew **Actually Visual Studio .NET is fine even though it isn't free -- there's an exception for that. On Fri, May 6, 2011 at 12:45 PM, Marcelo Ramires < marcelo.f.rami...@

Re: [gcj] Re: Somebody tell me What's wrong of my output Problem-B?

I'd like to apologize for all the confusion on Magicka. It seemed that there were a couple of pain points: 1. Some people thought that all the elements were invoked at the same time, and then combination and opposition rules were applied once the list was full. Thankfully this was refuted by the

Re: [gcj] Re: Codejam Registrants

Registration numbers are kind of meaningless, since a lot (no really, a *lot *) of people sign up but don't show up. Around 14k competed in some measurable sense, by downloading at least one input -- I'll put a more exact number in the editorial when I get the chance. -- You received this messag

Re: [gcj] Google Code Jam Tools Website

> > Does anybody know why did ACRush did not participate in the code jam? http://code.google.com/codejam/contest/scoreboard?c=975485#sp=61 Many stars of last contests were not there. As João pointed out, you can find some of those people on the Contest Analysis page, but I'm sure others are mi

Re: [gcj] Re: Codejam Registrants

> > On Sun, May 8, 2011 at 2:34 PM, Vexorian wrote: I think that in order to download an input you would need to at least > think you have solved the problem. Would it be possible to know the > amount of people that opened the dash board during the contest? > That's a fair point. I'll see if I

Re: [gcj] Goro sort again

> > It says Goro is sorting N integers, but not that the integers are > 1...N. Are the GCJ question setters being kind by only using arrays > of 1...N in their test cases? """The second line of each test case will contain a permutation of the *N* smallest positive integers.""" Did anyone else g

Re: [gcj] Problem C output !! Candy problem

> > For practice questions, does everyone receive same input ? Or do they give > different input files every time you download an input set?? Everyone receives the same practice input. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "google-codejam" group. To post

Re: [gcj] Re: A minor piece of suggestion on GUI of Codejam

These are some great ideas, and we'll see what we can do about them (though it's unlikely it will be anything by this weekend). In the mean time, you can A) try Chrome, and B) Check the "My submissions" panel post-submission to make sure you submitted what you thought you did. If you didn't for a

Re: [gcj] Schedule

The calendar is in Pacific Time, I suppose since that's where the person who created the calendar is. I'll see if we can do something about that. On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 5:50 AM, Pedro Salomão wrote: > Hello Guys, > > I opened the Schedule for Google Code Jam today and noticed some strange > th

Re: [gcj] Re: Codejam Registrants

Thanks for the reminder. It looks like 21940 separate logins loaded the dashboard, and a number of un-logged-in people too. With that said, not everybody is a competitor; some people were just there to check out the problems, because they heard they were so awesome (true story). Cheers! Bartholo

Re: [gcj] Google Code Jam Tools Website

> > acrush is not ACRush, GCJ nickname is case sensitive. :) Same person, new nickname. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "google-codejam" group. To post to this group, send email to google-code@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send e

Re: [gcj] IOI 2011

I wasn't personally aware of that, but there's nothing we can do about it at this stage. Did they announce their schedule before ours and have us not take it into account, or vice versa? On Sun, May 22, 2011 at 6:35 PM, TripleM wrote: > Are the Code Jam organisers aware that the GCJ onsite fina

Re: [gcj] Re: Will the round 1 schedule be adjusted for the rapture?

Already done: http://code.google.com/codejam/contest/dashboard?c=433101#s=p1 . Not that I recommend actually reading and trying to solve it; we've improved our problem-phrasing abilities since then. On Sun, May 22, 2011 at 4:48 PM, Dalek wrote: > That could certainly be a problem to solve in th

Re: [gcj] Re: [Connection problem in round C]

As you've noticed, the platform sometimes gets a little bumpy at the start of contests. This is an improvement over last year, where a couple of times it got bumpy *during* contests, but still not good enough. We're going to work on fixing that or at least ameliorating it; in the mean time, reloa

Re: [gcj] GCJ Ratings

> I don't know why when someone changes his nickname, this change does not affect the old scoreboard. > I think if they updated all scoreboards with the latest nicknames, this will be good too. We do, except when people change their email addresses rather than just their nicknames. -- You receiv

Re: [gcj] Problems statements license

At this point they're just covered by copyright. We currently plan to release problems, analyses and input data under http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/3.0, but that hasn't happened just yet. The license is NoDerivs, but you will be able to modify problem statements to reduce them to only

Re: [gcj] Re: IOI 2011

Nika and Others, Our schedulers will be getting in touch with the IOI participants, and we'll see what we can do about scheduling the contest so that everyone can make it. Cheers, Bartholomew -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "google-codejam" group. T

Re: [gcj] Re: Problems statements license

> > Please also allow translating to other human languages. > Oh, duh! Great idea. And why not more liberal license? > Fair question. My initial reaction was to worry about what derivative works people might create and try to attribute to Google, but I'll consult with the team and we'll see wh

[gcj] We Have a Winner!

Code Jam Champion, winning in his own country, *rng..58*! - Bartholomew Furrow, for the Google Code Jam Team -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "google-codejam" group. To post to this group, send email to google-code@googlegroups.com. To un

Re: [gcj] Factorial problem:-

Mandy, One thing I'm not sure has been made clear is *why* you're getting an error. In C++, numbers can be stored in a few different ways. It sounds to me like you're using an *int*, which can usually correctly store integers between about -2 billion and +2 billion. What happens when you try to

Re: [gcj] Code Jam 2012 schedule

> > Qualification round on Friday rather than Saturday? It's the same as 2010 and 2011 -- it starts on Friday in U.S. Pacific time. It is possible that a significant number of contestants have their wedding > anniversaries on July 31st. My understanding is that most of those contestants live i

Re: [gcj]

Sorry about the spam, folks. User banned. On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 12:56 PM, wrote: > http://trierstechsvcs.com/wp-content/uploads/trgrpo.html > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Google Code Jam" group. > To post to this group, send email to goog

Re: [gcj] please someone tell me how to solved Korea 2012 Round A

You can visit the scoreboard, and download the solutions of other contestants by clicking "솔루션 다운로드". On Fri, Mar 9, 2012 at 11:45 PM, Minseok Jang wrote: > where can I get the solution(not source) that how to solved KOREA 2012 > ROUND A > > http://code.google.com/codejam/contest/1378488/dashboa

Re: [gcj] Translations of Japan-2011 and Korea-2012 Problems

Hi Jeong, The licenses for the problems are linked at the bottom of each page. Here's the English version: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ If you're going to translate the problem, the only requirement (as I understand the license) is that when you post your translation, you should

[gcj] codejam-annou...@googlegroups.com

Fellow problem-solvers and coding enthusiasts, we are excited to announce that registration for Google Code Jam 2012 is now open! We'll be flying the top 25 contestants to New York City this year to compete in the World Finals. So stretch out your wrists, get that

[gcj] Registration for Google Code Jam 2012 is now open!

Fellow problem-solvers and coding enthusiasts, we are excited to announce that registration for Google Code Jam 2012 is now open! We'll be flying the top 25 contestants to New York City this year to compete in the World Finals. So stretch out your wrists, get that

[gcj] Re: Registration for Google Code Jam 2012 is now open!

P.S. Sorry for the double-send. Somehow I screwed up the first one. On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 15:08, Bartholomew Furrow wrote: > Fellow problem-solvers and coding enthusiasts, we are excited to announce > that registration for Google Code Jam 2012<http://code.google.com/codejam> i

[gcj] Changes worth noting for Google Code Jam 2012

We've made a few changes to the rules and platform for Code Jam from last year. Here are some highlights: - MATLAB is now allowed. Since Octave and other open-source implementations exist, it seemed like a good idea. - We're no longer restricted by the rules to the format where there's one Smal

Re: [gcj] Re: Changes worth noting for Google Code Jam 2012

there be option of someone wanting to seeing our email address in >> the result page. May that will be a good use for reference to future >> employers.. >> >> On Friday, March 23, 2012 6:58:43 AM UTC+5:30, Bartholomew Furrow wrote: >>> >>> We've made a

Re: [gcj] Re: Changes worth noting for Google Code Jam 2012

> > Yes, that's coming up. You should get on that. > Oh man, that's really soon -- do you have any good problem ideas? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Code Jam" group. To post to this group, send email to google-code@googlegroups.com. To unsu

Re: [gcj] Re: Changes worth noting for Google Code Jam 2012

t the top) has all the events down as whole day events - > would it be possible to update the calendar with more detail? > > Barış > > On 28 Mar 2012, at 20:44, Bartholomew Furrow wrote: > > Yes, that's coming up. You should get on that. >> > > Oh man, that'

[gcj] Code Jam hangout

Hi Code Jammers, Igor Naverniouk and I will be doing a Hangout On Air on Wednesday, April 4th (tomorrow) at 12:30pm Pacific Time , from the Life at Google page on Google+. If you have questions you'd like answered, add them to our moderator page

Re: [gcj] gcj

Your numbers are a bit low for input and output files -- we let those get as high as 200kB (the input files can actually be bigger, but max out at 200kB gzipped -- all modern browsers [as far as I can tell] automatically request a gzipped version from the server). Bala, for my own information, how

[gcj] Google Code Jam Hangout On Air #2, feat. Petr, Tomek, Onufry

Code Jammers, Come join me in about 16 hours for a conversation with international programming contest superstars Petr Mitrichev and Tomek Czajka, and Code Jam problem-setter Onufry Wojtaszczyk. We'll talk about competitive programming in general, and Code Jam in particular. The hangout will tak

[gcj] Re: Google Code Jam Hangout On Air #2, feat. Petr, Tomek, Onufry

This has been delayed for a while due to technical difficulties. We'll answer some of the Moderator questions on the Google Students G+ page, and we'll reconvene as soon as we can. Sorry about that! Bartholomew On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 3:32 PM, Bartholomew Furrow wrote: > Code Jamm

[gcj] Re: Google Code Jam Hangout On Air #2, feat. Petr, Tomek, Onufry

OK, we're trying again 24 hours after it was originally supposed to happen. In your timezone: http://goo.gl/iYPGd On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 8:31 AM, Bartholomew Furrow wrote: > This has been delayed for a while due to technical difficulties. We'll > answer some of the Moderator

Re: [gcj] Final Round - Rules

Matthew, We've done our best with Code Jam to make it so that as many people as possible can participate. My understanding as a non-lawyer is that lots of countries have laws regarding how their citizens under the age of 18 are treated, and because of the effects and variety of these laws, we've

Re: [gcj] Online IDEs

If you use ideone, make sure to press the "private" button so nobody else copies your code during a contest. On Sun, Apr 15, 2012 at 10:01 AM, teja pratap wrote: > ideone.com > > On Sat, Apr 14, 2012 at 5:56 PM, Prateek Kushwaha > wrote: > > Can anyone suggest a good online IDE where you can run

Re: [gcj] Re: code jam qualification email

Sorry for the slow emails. Everyone should have gotten one by now. 2012/4/21 VFIX > I guess all the qualified contestants will be receiving a mail ,about > details for next round 1-2 days before next round. > In case a contestant didn't advanced for next round he'll be > receiving a mail menti

Re: [gcj] Re: code jam qualification email

Does that mean that the questions of Round 1 is not ready yet? >> >> >> 2012/4/27 Luke Pebody >> >>> It's probably time to start thinking of questions for round 1. >>> >>> >>> >>> On 26 Apr 2012, at 23:12, Barthol

[gcj] Sorry for the burst of messages...

We got our wires crossed, and a bunch of messages that should have been posted a while ago were stuck in our moderation queue. Sorry to everyone whose messages got through late, and to everyone who just got a burst of less-than-timely messages. -- You received this message because you are subscr

Re: [gcj] Re: C. Cruise Control Output format question

FYI: If you use cout, it will not give you 1e-6 precision by default. On Sat, Apr 28, 2012 at 9:35 PM, sumu...@gmail.com wrote: > You don't need to worry about outputing exactly the same as the sample > in the case of floating point. As they say, if the number you print > out is within 1E-5 of w

Re: [gcj] i cannot update my profile, why?

The registration page (which is the same as the 'update profile' page) is served over https only, so my guess is that you're unable to connect to https://code.google.com/codejam. I don't know why that would be -- maybe something about your proxy settings, or your location? On Sat, Apr 28, 2012 at

Re: [gcj] Re: what time does round 1B start?

Whoops! Sorry about that. The next contest is now visible. On Sat, Apr 28, 2012 at 3:34 PM, IdahoJacket wrote: > 16:00 UTC on May 5th (next weekend) > > > On Saturday, April 28, 2012 9:38:46 AM UTC-7, juh0 wrote: >> >> so they said it would start at 16:00 UTC (http://www.timeanddate.com/ >> wo

[gcj] Are Code Jam emails going through OK?

I just got a report from a contestant that the email we sent him with his results from Round 1A got cut off, so he only got a partial message. Is this happening to anyone else, or is it a freak occurrence? We do most of our mass-email sending through the Code Jam app now, and this is the first ye

Re: [gcj] Re: Round 1B 2012 amateur analysis (while we wait for the real one)

The official analysis for this round has just been posted. Please enjoy our lengthy explanations and super-consistent formatting! P.S. Challenge task: See if you can guess which problem's editorial was written by a math major, using *only the text of the editorial*. -- You received this message

Re: [gcj] Re: code jam qualification email

The video has been found! http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=vQ35aWcjIE0#! -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Code Jam" group. To post to this group, send email to google-code@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group,

Re: [gcj] Google Code Jam Hangout On Air #2, feat. Petr, Tomek, Onufry

or information about our outreach programs? Check out our Technical >> Programs & Events site <http://www.google.com/events/technicalprograms/>! >> >> >> >> On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 9:52 AM, vivek dhiman wrote: >> >>> Do we have the video uploa

[gcj] Round 1C's Analysis has been published!

At long last, the analysis for Round 1C is available. Particular thanks to John Dethridge for writing two editorials and the round editorial! Bartholomew -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "

Re: [gcj] Re: Command line tool issues during qualification round

Sorry, that app's misconfigured. I suggest using the real qual round to test for now. On Fri, Jun 8, 2012 at 9:06 PM, Registered user wrote: > i m unable to login to link given by u : > http://codejam-publictest.appspot.com/codejam/contest/35001/dashboard > > how do i login to this : > > i dont

Re: [gcj] in java : number of test cases not given , dont mind i m just a begineer, i m here to learn from u all....

If you're looking to read integers until EOF with Java, try: while (scan.hasNextInt()) { i = scan.nextInt(); j = scan.nextInt(); ... } You can find out about all the capabilities of scanner at http://docs.oracle.com/javase/1.5.0/docs/api/java/util/Scanner.html. On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 10

[gcj] Analysis posted for Round 3

http://code.google.com/codejam/contest/1835486/dashboard#s=a&a=4 I hope everybody enjoyed the problem set! -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Code Jam" group. To post to this group, send email to google-code@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from

Re: [gcj] World Finals 2012 Analysis

Hi, folks! Sorry that took so long -- personally, I was in a Code Jam Coma brought on by too much problem preparation. The analysis is now available at http://code.google.com/codejam/contest/2075486/dashboard#s=a. Best, Bartholomew -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the

Re: [gcj] Re: T-shirt has already sent?

- It doesn't matter if you're under 18 for purposes of t-shirts. - If you haven't gotten yours by the end of October, please let us know at code...@google.com. We definitely want to make sure everyone gets his or hers! -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups

Re: [gcj] How to change email in GCJ ?

There's currently no way to update your notification email address for Code Jam -- it's just one of those features that we haven't had time to implement. If anyone who wants this feature is coming to work at Google, I'd love to help you add it; otherwise, we'll try to get to it by 2013 (but no pro

Re: [gcj] Re: T-shirt has already sent?

> T-shirts are sent to participants that placed in the top 1000. If you did > so and have not received your t-shirt yet, please email codejam@google.comand > include your Code Jam ID name and complete shipping address and we will > research the status of your t-shirt. We want to be sure everyone r

[gcj] 2013

Check it out . -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Code Jam" group. To post to this group, send email to google-code@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to google-code+unsubscr...@googlegro

Re: [gcj] Re: 2013

> > and members of the Contest Entities' immediate families (parents, > siblings, children, spouses, and life partners of each, regardless of where > they live) and members of the Contest Entities' households (whether related > or not) are ineligible to participate in this Contest > Ah, good quest

Re: [gcj] In C , how do i create an array of size 10^9 ???

> I guess you are trying HackerCup problem 3? The truth is... Please don't discuss problems from contests that are ongoing. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Code Jam" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, sen

Re: [gcj] Binary Power (x power y) x,y is very large.

> @upen, if you working with Java, look at biginteger data type. Google it up. For a number that big, an exact representation like BigInteger would be unwieldy. I'm guessing this needs something custom tailored to the problem it's being used to solve. -- You received this message because you are

Re: [gcj] Future of Google Sites?

This mailing list is the wrong place to ask this question. A Google search about Google Sites doesn't show anything to me about it shutting down, so I'm assuming it isn't. :-) On Mon, Feb 4, 2013 at 1:35 AM, Rajesh Kumar wrote: > Hi! > Google will be closing many of its products by 1st Nov,

Re: [gcj] Hacker Cup Round 2 Question 3

I didn't end up finishing my implementation, but you're right that it's a tree. You can collapse the tree one leaf node at a time. Each node starts off with a vector representing sequences that contain only that node: [1]. When you merge your 1 into your 3, you're merging a [1] with a [1], and y

Re: [gcj] Hacker Cup Round 2 Question 3

Thanks for implementing it, Matt -- I'm glad to hear that works! I got stuck in the last 40 minutes doing just the binomial part. I blame parent-brain. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Code Jam" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop

Re: [gcj] Solved every last one

Wow, that's amazing! Really nice work, Eric, and I'll make sure the rest of the team sees this. Congratulations on solving all the problems–it's good to know that even the really tough ones have had their day in the sun. We work hard to minimize the PITA factor, and I'm glad it showed! On Thu,

Re: [gcj] Regarding output file for submission

On Mar 9, 2013 7:16 PM, "Amir Hossein Sharifzadeh" < amirsharifza...@gmail.com> wrote: > > During contest time you should first submit the output for grading > (e.g Hello.out) and after upload a ZIP archive containing multiple > source code files, as long as their total uncompressed size does not >

Re: [gcj] Regarding Knowledge

Speaking in Tongues isn't a great problem to start with, because it's a little bit unusual and silly. I'd recommend looking at the "Where should I start?" section on our Practice & Learn Page and solving the ones listed there, from top to bottom. The

Re: [gcj] Algorithms

> I think Computational Geometry and Dynamic Programming are most important > for GCJ. Oh man, we must be doing something wrong. :-P I don't think we've asked for much computational geometry before. There have been a few problems like that, but I think not more than one or two a year. > > > O

Re: [gcj] Output File for all QR problems

Unfortunately I don't have a convenient way of getting those for you. You'd be best off downloading the practice input files for each problem, downloading the round winner's code for the Larges, and generating the output. Some of them will have FP numbers in them, so you'll need to accept approxi

Re: [gcj] Errors from official Code Jam calendar?

Thanks for pointing that out, Guillermo! I think we've fixed the times now -- would you mind double-checking? On Tue, Apr 9, 2013 at 11:16 AM, Guillermo wrote: > Are other people also seeing this problem on the official Code Jam > calendar? > The calendar is at > https://code.google.com/codeja

[gcj] Contest Analysis for Round 1A has been posted

You can find the analysis at https://code.google.com/codejam/contest/2418487/dashboard#s=a. Enjoy! Bartholomew -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Code Jam" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email

Re: [gcj] Disqualification

All right, I think I've tracked down the bug! First, my apologies to everyone who got an email saying he or she had been disqualified. That's a nasty surprise. I'd also like to apologize to the *entirely different set* of people who then got an email saying "Don't worry, you haven't been disqual

Re: [gcj] Disqualification

> Expect the final emails from Round 1A today I'm going to delay until the morning to send them out, so I'll be awake to deal with it just in case something goes wrong. If you want to know whether you advanced, though, check your rank in Round 1A. If it's <= 1000, you advanced! If not, we'll se

Re: [gcj] Disqualification

Hi Stanislav, I don't want to go into *much* detail, but I will share an anecdote. Last year, in the qualification round, we ended up needing to disqualify hundreds of people. Why? Because they didn't know they weren't supposed to collaborate, or didn't know they were supposed to compete with m

Re: [gcj] Re: Disqualification

> Note that in any case, Bart should never send "DISQUALIFIED". LOL! :-) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Code Jam" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to google-code+unsubscr...@googlegroups

Re: [gcj] Disqualification

> Makes a lot of sense. The thing which participant must understand and not > be offended is that many of situations you described are indistinguishable > from one another. Person who said that his source was stolen and who > participated in a good faith can not be distinguished from person who did

Re: [gcj] Re: Top 25

> Good job meret for not finishing in first 25. As he has his place in finals secured, we will have opportunity for 26 people in final round. Unfortunately, that rule doesn't take effect until next year. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Code J

[gcj] Re: Homepage shows "Coding is now in progress"

> coding was over weeks ago. You didn't stop coding, did you??? We'll update it. :-) The finalists aren't done coding yet, but I'm sure we can come up with something new before the finals. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Code Jam" group. To

Re: [gcj] Help me to learn Cloudera

Hi karthikeyan, I'm afraid this isn't the right mailing list to ask this question. Best, Bartholomew On Mon, Jul 8, 2013 at 7:28 AM, karthikeyan balamurugan wrote: > Guys i want to learn and develop Cloud technology using some open source > Hadoop and Bigdata > How to i start > Give me some su

Re: [gcj] Homepage shows "Coding is now in progress"

OK, you can all stop coding now . On Sat, Jul 6, 2013 at 8:30 AM, Andres Felipe Ruiz wrote: > I think (And this is a serious response) that that message is shown as far > as GCJ is still running. I mean, After the finals ends, that would > dissapear. > > > > > O

Re: [gcj] Request for Displaying the Coding language used by each contestant in the contest scoreboard

> You can use go-hero http://www.go-hero.net/jam/13 That's what I always do. While it isn't official, foxlit has done a great job of maintaining the site over the years and making it a useful resource for everyone. > Note that this not a trivial problem to recognise all languages - some people at

Re: [gcj] Anyone received the T-shirt?

My understanding is that we're still working on sending out the shirts, so the answer is probably "not yet" from everybody. :-) On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 11:03 PM, Jinfu Leng wrote: > Thanks. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Google Code Jam" gr

Re: [gcj] 2013 Finals analysis published

Leandro, We can't really discuss why particular finalists didn't attend; it seems impolite to pass on that kind of information, even if it isn't terribly exciting. Sorry! Bartholomew On Fri, Sep 6, 2013 at 5:11 PM, Leandro Coutinho wrote: > Hi Petr. > > Could you answer my question here, pleas

Re: [gcj] Code of conduct

What an intriguing proposition! I don't think that's something we've thought about. Have you pledged only to attend events with Codes of Conduct? Events without them? Events with Codes of Conduct that require adherents to wear silly hats? On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 10:02 AM, Vexorian wrote: > I've

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