12th Internet Problem Solving Contest, This Sunday 52
misof writes "Roughly a thousand teams from all around the globe have already
registered for IPSC 2010, which takes place on
Sunday, June 6. $3,000 in prize money (courtesy of Facebook, Inc.) is waiting for the best few of them. Participation is free and the contest is open to everybody. IPSC is what you could call a programming contest with a twist. Over the years, the problems always push the boundary and go
beyond the usual stuff you see in a programming contest. For example, in past few years the contestants have had to understand how arithmetic in computers differs from that in mathematics, produce a sequence of cache requests that generates many page faults,
solve
a logic puzzle given as a Flash game, and
recognize
images to evaluate a rock-paper-scissors game."
First! (Score:5, Funny)
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If everyone knew how to post without the reply button, then the situation would get so bad that it would get fixed.
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Signing dog offers to help owner with his pitiful attempts at barking.
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It turns out that First post != First post in general, even though "First post" == "First post" obviously, but especially when the authors are Anonymous != Anonymous. Sometimes of course, Anonymous == Anonymous, and you still have First post != First post, because both of them find it boring to have First post == First post in that case and he's just trying to mess with your head.
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Congratulations
Pass (Score:2)
I'm probably gonna skip this one, since it starts at 2am for me.
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Why not? It keeps objectifying itself with those short comments, that skimpy running time, those perfect indentations...
It's just begging for it.
International Practical Shooting Confederation (Score:4, Interesting)
They could have chosen the name better that acronym is fairly well known for something else...
Re:International Practical Shooting Confederation (Score:4, Insightful)
Intel Personal Supercomputer
International Private Society Club
Interagency Perchlorate Steering Committee
Interim Political and Security Committee
...
Would you kindly recommend an unused acronym?
Re:International Practical Shooting Confederation (Score:4, Insightful)
They could have picked their schedule better, too. June 6 is the second round of Google's 2010 Code Jam contest...
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Annual Network Utilization Society
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Nice try, but all of those came after International Practical Shooting Confederation.
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I like the idea of an International Theoretical Shooting Confederation. I picture a group of men with big moustaches sitting round, smoking pipes, discussing...
"Boom."
"Bang?"
"Ratatat!"
"Indeed."
Arithmetic (Score:5, Funny)
...understand how arithmetic in computers differs from that in mathematics...
That's a good question. I mean, computers don't have fingers, so how exactly can they do arithmetic?
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They only have one finger on each hand, but they do have millions of hands. :P
Re:Arithmetic (Score:5, Funny)
They don't? But I thought they were digital?
facebook.. really? (Score:5, Funny)
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Ah so *thats* what the spill was about? More endangered species -> more survival chances!
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I just filed a bug report about this, including your screenshot. (Thanks.)
I've seen some ad weirdness of late on the admin side, too (may have been with that very same ad in one case); the ways of internet advertising are sometimes mysterious, and (sorry) I have nothing to do with the advertising aspect.
timothy
Problem #1 (Score:3, Insightful)
Let the best win.. (Score:1)
Who is the real winner? (Score:3, Interesting)
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It's worse than that. $1200 for the winning 3 person team. For $400, I might as well just go to work.
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And even if you opted not to work for facebook (or they declined to hire you for whatever reason) this still wouldn't be a bad thing to have on your resume.
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Actually, if you look at the problems and the solutions, you submit the answer. You don't submit how you got the answer, or your program source code at all. Some of those problems look like the best strategy is to simply apply pencil and paper and solve it manually. Or think it through and compose an answer.
It's computer oriented, but use of a computer in the final solution is optional - it may be really u
What kind of problems does the internet have? (Score:2, Funny)
To save team costs for sending in postcards, we would like to send a single envelope from one team to the next, in which each team may deposit their postcard before forwarding onward to
That's a lot of internets! (Score:1)
missing hyphen.... (Score:1)
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... and how is it solving a contest?