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May 2nd, 2008

Follow the Leader on Twitter

As we approach the 5PM deadline for the Early Bird prize, the lead has already changed four times with submissions from four different people since we entered Daylight. When a new entry takes the top spot, I wanna hear about it.

Twitter provides the solution. Whenever the lead changes, we post to contestleaders. There are lots of ways to subscribe to this channel on Twitter, including RSS, IM, and SMS. After creating a free account, I configured it to send me a text message whenever there was an update. Now I can stop hitting reload and get back to work on R2008b, knowing that I’ll be notified immediately.

By Matthew Simoneau

3:51 pm | Posted in Wiring | Permalink |

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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.

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  • 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.
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  • Alan Chalker: As I usually do, I’ve now posted a heavily commented version of the leading code so that those of...

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