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> One of the things I like about competitive programming and the like is just getting to implement a clearly articulated problem English versions of Codeforces
by baobabKoodaa 5y ago
> One of the things I like about competitive programming and the like is just getting to implement a clearly articulated problem
English versions of Codeforces problems may be well-defined but they are often very badly articulated and easy to misunderstand as a human reader. I still can't understand how they got AI to be able to generate plausible solutions from these problem statements.
- zbobet2012 5y agoThey used the tests. The specification being very approximate is fine, because they had a prebuilt way to "check" if their result was good.
- baobabKoodaa 5y agoWait what, they cheated to get this result? Only pretests are available to competitors before submitting. If they had access to the full test suite, then they had a HUGE advantage over actual competitors, and this result is way less impressive than claimed. Can you provide a source for this claim? I don't want to read the full paper.
- sireat 5y agoIf AlphaCode had access to full test suite then the result is not surprising at all. You can fit anything given enough parameters. https://fermatslibrary.com/s/drawing-an-elephant-with-four-complex-parameters#email-newsletter https://fermatslibrary.com/s/drawing-an-elephant-with-four-c...