Ant Group Sponsors Reality Competition Show About Programmers (i-programmer.info) 32
"A two-episode series which debuted on Chinese streaming platforms last week has been described as the first reality competition to focus on programmers," reports the I Programmer web site:
The show, sponsored by the Ant Group, an affiliate company of the Chinese Alibaba Group, is called Ranshaoba tiancaichengxuyuan, which roughly translates to "Burn Bright! Genius Programmer," and followed four teams engaged on a challenge akin to the hackathons that take place on Kaggle and similar platforms.
News of the show comes in a report China's first variety show about computer programmers seeks to mold Chinese IT idols in Global Times, the English-language newspaper published by People's Daily, which is the official newspaper of Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party. Ji Yuqiao reported that twenty programmers took part in the show and were divided into four teams that competed to win a prize of 1 million yuan ($154,152). Some of the competitors were graduates of top universities such as Tsinghua University in China and Carnegie Mellon University in the US, while others were high school dropouts. Four professors at Peking University and Tsinghua University acted as mentors to these young talents on the show.
Contestants were tasked with protecting wild animals from poachers in a virtual world. With a time limit of 48 hours they had to design algorithms to detect and identify wild animals based on the limited data resources in the game.
News of the show comes in a report China's first variety show about computer programmers seeks to mold Chinese IT idols in Global Times, the English-language newspaper published by People's Daily, which is the official newspaper of Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party. Ji Yuqiao reported that twenty programmers took part in the show and were divided into four teams that competed to win a prize of 1 million yuan ($154,152). Some of the competitors were graduates of top universities such as Tsinghua University in China and Carnegie Mellon University in the US, while others were high school dropouts. Four professors at Peking University and Tsinghua University acted as mentors to these young talents on the show.
Contestants were tasked with protecting wild animals from poachers in a virtual world. With a time limit of 48 hours they had to design algorithms to detect and identify wild animals based on the limited data resources in the game.
long episodes (Score:2)
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They'll alternate, each match is in the other guy's mother's basement.
There will be no actual technical content (Score:3)
My wife watched Blown last night, about a glass blowing competition. Could have been very interesting, to see how glass blowers work to produce their amazing creations.
Not a chance. Less than 10% was about glass blowing.
The rest was people telling you how they felt about the competition, lots of noise about who got voted off, lots of focus on a timer limit. No focus on glass blowing at all.
Another example was Queens Gambit. I did not sit through all of it but the stand out thing for me was that the movi
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It's China. No basements but they do often live with their parents.
Show Synopsis (Score:2)
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Episode 1: Sitting in a front of a monitor for 8 hours. Cliffhanger: The code did not compile! Is it linker error? Missing semi-column? Typo in a pointer? See Episode 2 for more.
It just needs to be spiced up with the proper personality. Maybe have Linus host and judge it? Isn't he the tech equivalent of Gordon Ramsey?
"There's no fucking way I'd accept that patch you fucking doughnut."
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Too soon?
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Isn't he the tech equivalent of Gordon Ramsey?
I am on board with Linus, however we need him with the anger level before his 2018 pause!
BULLSHIT. Have you _looked_ at the patches you are talking about? You should have - several of them bear your name. [...] As it is, the patches are COMPLETE AND UTTER GARBAGE. [...] WHAT THE F*CK IS GOING ON?
Re: Show Synopsis (Score:2)
Dont forget the obligatory "human" side beloved of these sorts of shows where we get to see the team eat a pizza and coke at their desks while Barry the network guy cleans the crufts from between his toes using a spare ethernet cable.
A race to the bottom (Score:2)
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Re: A race to the bottom (Score:2)
Helps if you can do both to be fair - code doesnt write itself no matter how deeply you thought about it beforehand.
Control+C and Control+V. (Score:2)
Could have sworn there was something else (Score:2)
has been described as the first reality competition to focus on programmers
I could have sworn there has been some kind of reality show about programmers before, but maybe that's just memory of hackathon videos from YouTube or documentaries or something.
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There was a reality TV series already called - unimaginatively - "Game Jam." It was a disaster. The actual process of programming turns out to spectators as watching paint dry, so the producers started resorting to dirty tricks to create drama - sabotaging computers, stiring up anger between rival teams, and trying to manipulate contestants into saying something offensive about female programmers. Between the sabotage, leading questions and an intrusive sponsorship representative insisting on going around t
Thanks! (Score:1)
That is exactly what I was thinking of! I never actually saw it, but I remember reading about it before after reading your link.
So this other show really is not the first reality show with programmers... and may even have similar problems, as you have to do something to spice up programming for TV.
Sounds interesting (Score:1)
Re: Sounds interesting (Score:2)
Dont worry, they'll probably scour the whole of north america to find a black female coder and bonus points for the producers if she's a lesbian too.
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But it's in China so.... doubtful. They don't really go for all that stuff over there.
People's Daily (Score:2)
People's Daily, the site mentioned in the summary, is one of the news sites you never have to bookmark. It's so easy to remember.
Eee Enn dot people dot cee enn
en.people.cn
It's the go-to site for the official news and opinion from China.
Re: People's Daily (Score:2)
For a particular definition of "opinon" - ie what the CCP requires the journos to think.
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That's what he said--it's where you go to get the official opinion.
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That's what he said--it's where you go to get the only allowable opinion.
FTFY
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This is a misconception. There are many allowable opinions. They just don't allow echo chambers for conspiracy theories and blatant flaming of government officials. There is a whole realm of things to debate, like surrogacy and these debates often even lead to political officials looking at policy changes on these issues... It's just once you start telling American's what they say, they start claiming they cannot say anything. Funny world we live in where China is becoming more reasonable than America.
Itâ(TM)s on YouTube (Score:1)
simulated code (Score:2)
Deflect from busted IPO? (Score:2)