Comments on: Twilight Winner and Early Bird Special http://blogs.mathworks.com/contest/2007/05/11/twilight-winner-and-early-bird-special/ The MATLAB Programming Contest is a semi-annual competition where contestants submit MATLAB code to try to solve a challenge. For more information, see http://www.mathworks.com/contest/overview.html Sat, 21 Jan 2012 14:45:27 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Helen Chen http://blogs.mathworks.com/contest/2007/05/11/twilight-winner-and-early-bird-special/#comment-2097 Helen Chen Sat, 12 May 2007 11:26:43 +0000 http://blogs.mathworks.com/contest/?p=65#comment-2097 Thanks Alan! That is an absolutely great idea! Helen Thanks Alan! That is an absolutely great idea!

Helen

]]> By: Alan Chalker http://blogs.mathworks.com/contest/2007/05/11/twilight-winner-and-early-bird-special/#comment-2096 Alan Chalker Sat, 12 May 2007 06:43:38 +0000 http://blogs.mathworks.com/contest/?p=65#comment-2096 For those of you interested, I've submitted a heavily commented version of the current leading code under the name "Guided tour of dreamland" (ID: 39727). It should be help to anyone who wants to understand exactly how what algorithms the best entries are working with. As I put in my comment: Note in the interest of collaboration I'm documenting the leading code as much as possible. Instead of going the obscufation route with this, I invite everyone to document / take credit for their particular changes as the codes get modified. At a minimum, please don't remove the existing comments so someone doesn't have to start from scratch on commenting updated code again I did put in a small algorithmic tweak to make it a bit faster, which puts it into 1st place as of 2:30AM, but I definitely can't take credit for the bulk of the effort, which was developed back and forth between several other contestants over the course of the day. I hope this gesture prevents or at least delays the onset of obscufation that normally happens about now in the contest. Such obscufation makes it more challenging for new competitors to jump in and understand what's going on. For those of you interested, I’ve submitted a heavily commented version of the current leading code under the name “Guided tour of dreamland” (ID: 39727). It should be help to anyone who wants to understand exactly how what algorithms the best entries are working with.

As I put in my comment:

Note in the interest of collaboration I’m documenting the leading code as much as possible. Instead of going the obscufation route with this, I invite everyone to document / take credit for their particular changes as the codes get modified. At a minimum, please don’t remove the existing comments so someone doesn’t have to start from scratch on commenting updated code again

I did put in a small algorithmic tweak to make it a bit faster, which puts it into 1st place as of 2:30AM, but I definitely can’t take credit for the bulk of the effort, which was developed back and forth between several other contestants over the course of the day.

I hope this gesture prevents or at least delays the onset of obscufation that normally happens about now in the contest. Such obscufation makes it more challenging for new competitors to jump in and understand what’s going on.

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