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May 4th, 2008

The David Jones Takes the Leap, Sunday Push Underway

The David Jones domination continues. Yesterday he added the Leap challenge to his trophy shelf by making the largest single improvement in score, despite strong competition from Yi Cao and Jim.

The Sunday Push goes to the contestant who makes the biggest cumulative improvement to the score on Sunday. Halfway through today’s Sunday Push, David is in the lead, but Jan and Yi are close behind. This mid-contest challenge ends at midnight. Will he stay in the lead? You can follow the action by checking out the “Sunday” section under “Contributions in Daylight” in the statistics.

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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...

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