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November 14th, 2007

Markus is Our Contest Winner!

Markus is the winner of the Gene Splicing contest. His performance improvement on MikeR’s leading entry pulled him into first place. Congratulations! The other big movers in the final hours of the contest were Fernando and Claus Still.

One Response to “Markus is Our Contest Winner!”

  1. Silvio replied on :

    Contragulations ‘Markus’.
    That scrip file is a phenomenon.

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The MATLAB Programming Contest is a semi-annual competition where contestants submit MATLAB code to try to solve a challenge. For more information, see the overview.
  • Helen Chen: Hurray for Yi! That is a really great accomplishment! Helen
  • David Jones: Thanks for sharing your analysis Alan. As you have argued persuasively, it looks like 13,000 is...
  • OkinawaDolphin: It seems that new entries don’t show up anymore because the queue is clogged.
  • srach: Yeah, but in 4 hours David Jones wakes up (if he does sleep at all) and pulls a rabbit out of his hat which...
  • Yi Cao: Nice analysis, Alan. It was my original judgement as well when the challenge was announced.
  • Alan Chalker: While I haven’t had much time to compete in this contest, I’ve done some analysis and...
  • Matthew: Good point. Done!
  • MikeR: I am assuming you are going to apply the constraint that this challenge applies to the new testsuite.
  • DrSeuss: I wonder if a score-neutral test-suite swap is even possible. ;-)
  • Alan Chalker: As I usually do, I’ve now posted a heavily commented version of the leading code so that those of...

These postings are the author's and don't necessarily represent the opinions of The MathWorks.

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