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May 5th, 2008

Test Suite Swap Completed, Post-Swap Past-the-Post Prize Announced

We’re back online after completing the mid-contest test suite swap. To make the swap score-neutral, we’re subtracting 3.1131 seconds from the time, and 10559 from the results for all future entries. The new test suite is similar statistically to the first one, so these fudge factors are a measure of the “overfitting” in the current best entry. There should be lots of new slack to shake out, so we’ll award a Post-Swap Past-the-Post Prize to the first entry to break 13000. Good Luck!

By Matthew Simoneau

3:38 pm | Posted in Wiring | Permalink |

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  • 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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