MATLAB Programming Contest Blog

April 6th, 2009

Rafal Kasztelanic is our Early Bird Winner

By popular vote, Rafal Kasztelanic’s submission, MATLAB Contest - creativity is the winner of our Early Bird award. His visualizations show the authors who contributed the most original lines of code to the contest. We welcome Rafal Kasztelanic, a new contributor to the File Exchange and a new inductee to the contest Hall of Fame. Pulling an equal number of votes, but submitted a couple hours later, is nathan’s meet the family, which tracks evolution and parentage using both code analysis and explicitly credit. Both of these entries remain in the running for the final prize, so follow them in the Rankings and cast your votes accordingly.

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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.
  • Alan Chalker: As I traditionally do about this time in the contest, I’ve submitted a heavily commented version...
  • the cyclist: Looks like there might be a problem with the statistics page. For one thing, Alan Chalker holds all 20...
  • Alan Chalker: I have been able to figure out the scoring formula and am posting it here as I traditionally do. As...
  • Nick Howe: As Alan noted, the Twitter feeds seem broken. Perhaps the change to the queue update timing was...
  • Alan Chalker: Are the twitter feeds not working anymore? Or is there a major delay in updating them?
  • Doug: Everyone, Sorry about that. I wrote the contest code in absolute indexing, and then changed it to match the...
  • Michael: The syntax of the function ’solver’ as explained in the rules is: colors = solver(A,[targetRow...
  • Ned: Hello SY: Some of the intermediate challenges are predictable, but some of them are improvised. We’ll...
  • SY: Would it be possible to announce date/time of all (or at least some) intermediate challenges (1000 characters, 3...
  • Helen Chen: Hi Kapil - The code will be uploaded when the contest starts at noon (Boston time) on November 4th. Helen

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