Ruberik

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   by Ruberik 11y ago

   I think it's fair to say that programming contest winners are exceptionally good at cranking solutions out fast; but they could be just as good at working reflectively in a team as everyone else, or even better. The author of this arti
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   by Ruberik 11y ago

   I don't have any evidence of this other than my word, sorry. As kentonv points out, I was in a position to know: in the early days of Code Jam, we to do some convincing of Googlers who had seen the "programming contestants don&#x2
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   by Ruberik 11y ago

   For the majority of these competitions, the programmer you described would have zero points. If you don't get 100/100 on a task, you get no points. The IOI is a notable exception.
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   by Ruberik 11y ago

   The conclusion this article offers is drawn from a badly flawed study from over a decade ago, which Google decided neither to publish nor to use the conclusions from. A machine learning system was trained at Google as an attempt to do &quot