Re: OT: dropping empty revs with svndumpfilter

2009-09-09 Thread Ben Collins-Sussman
On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 9:21 PM, Jorge Handl jha...@gmail.com wrote: (This is a question for subversion experts. I know it doesn't strictly belong here, but the subversion users mailing list seems to be orphan, I've been waiting for five days for the admins to approve my subscription). Jorge

[gcj] Re: Water Shed

2009-09-09 Thread Bartholomew Furrow
Ultimately, as per your definition, is memoization a DP technique or not? I could not understand that. Forgetting the definition -- which has a few holes, I'll admit -- memoization is basically another way of expressing DP. It's rare that you have a DP algorithm that can't be expressed as

[gcj] Re: Кто решил зада чу С на квалификейшн рау нде?

2009-09-09 Thread romanr
По идее разбиваем строку на голову и хвост. Так вот обрати внимание: часто приходятся решать задачу для той-же самой головы и хвоста. Вот этот результат и закешируй. Можешь как кеш использовать двумерный массив с индексами в которых разбивается на голову и хвост текст и искомая строка, или

[gcj] Re: Subrounds: you have been assigned to all of them

2009-09-09 Thread Igor Naverniouk
No, under the old rules, no one would have been allowed to compete in all 3 sub-rounds. That is why we asked you to choose 2 out of the 3. Under the new rules, it does not matter what you chose. igor On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 12:48 AM, Dhruva Sagar dhruva.sa...@gmail.comwrote: Hi Igor, What

[gcj] Re: Subrounds: you have been assigned to all of them

2009-09-09 Thread Hawston LLH
that is not necessary, unless they are eager to know whether they are qualified for round 2 immediately after each sub round. They can participate for subsequent sub rounds, but their results in subsequent sub rounds will be ignored if they are already qualified in earlier subround. The only

[gcj] Re: Subrounds: you have been assigned to all of them

2009-09-09 Thread Dhruva Sagar
OK, I think that makes sense. Thanks Regards, Dhruva Sagar. Stephen Leacockhttp://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/s/stephen_leacock.html - I detest life-insurance agents: they always argue that I shall some day die, which is not so. On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 2:23 PM, Hawston LLH

[gcj] Re: Subrounds: you have been assigned to all of them

2009-09-09 Thread Jeroen van Erp
If the Code Jam team has set it up the same as in the Qualifying round, the results of your large sets will be available immediately after the round is finished. This means that you will only get bumped off the list if you've cheated, in which case you're eliminated anyway. So in essence some

[gcj] Re: Subrounds: you have been assigned to all of them

2009-09-09 Thread Vexorian
There's always the probability you would send an old version of the code, and when checking it after the round you don't notice it. On Sep 9, 9:53 am, Matteo Landi landima...@gmail.com wrote: In this case you will notice it at the end of the subround, thus before the second or third one, and

[gcj] Re: Subrounds: you have been assigned to all of them

2009-09-09 Thread Vexorian
What if there's a rejudge for some outputs of 1A just after 1C finishes? On Sep 9, 10:24 am, Vexorian vexor...@gmail.com wrote: There's always the probability you would send an old version of the code, and when checking it after the round you don't notice it. On Sep 9, 9:53 am, Matteo

[gcj] Re: Subrounds: you have been assigned to all of them

2009-09-09 Thread Luke Pebody
The possibilities you are discussing were all possibilities back in those grey old everybody-does-two subround days. This rule does not seem to affect it. On 9 Sep 2009, at 15:26, Vexorian vexor...@gmail.com wrote: What if there's a rejudge for some outputs of 1A just after 1C finishes?

[gcj] Re: Subrounds: you have been assigned to all of them

2009-09-09 Thread Carlos Guia
Luke is right, I think the new rule is only adding more chance to everybody. Carlos Guía On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 11:04 AM, Luke Pebody luke.peb...@gmail.com wrote: The possibilities you are discussing were all possibilities back in those grey old everybody-does-two subround days. This rule

[gcj] Re: Egg Drop

2009-09-09 Thread Satyajit Malugu
@sajith so total breaks become, 1 + F(D-1, B-1) + F(D-1,B) Isn't it the total floors? That's what I got from code of top players. Also what I don't understand is - How you can combine if and else cases to a same equation - 1 + F(D-1, B-1) + F(D-1,B) May be I am missing something.. but all of

[gcj] Re: Subrounds: you have been assigned to all of them

2009-09-09 Thread Sagar Shah
* -- unless they qualified for Round 2 in an earlier subround. * As I understand from the above statement, after each subround top 1000 scorers would advance to next round and they further wont be allowed to participate in other subround. So it would not be like selecting top 3000 scorers after

[gcj] Dynamic Programming

2009-09-09 Thread Sagar Shah
Can anyone please suggest me some good tutorial/book to learn Dynamic Programming? Thanks Sagar Shah --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups google-codejam group. To post to this group, send email to

[gcj] Re: perl solutions

2009-09-09 Thread cem aksoylar
I didn't see anyone mention it here (maybe I couldn't), but there is a function in perl called grep, which allows you to match a regular expression for each element of the array. It returns the matching elements of the array in array context, and the number of matches in scalar context. So

[gcj] Re: Question for java Coders

2009-09-09 Thread Paulo Rômulo
Maybe I'm using the wrong approach, but when I'm solving this kind of problem I only create a class with a main method and all the output is directed to the standard output printing a StringBuilder object that keep storing the output after each round of the execution in the case of a loop. As the

[gcj] Re: Dynamic Programming

2009-09-09 Thread Kaushalya Madhawa
This is good! http://www.topcoder.com/tc?module=Staticd1=tutorialsd2=dynProghttp://www.topcoder.com/tc?module=Staticd1=tutorialsd2=dynProgAnd refering CLRS will be helpful Regards, Kaushalya Madhawa http://kaumad.wordpress.com http://most-wanted-stuff.blogspot.com twitter:

[gcj] Re: favorite programming language?

2009-09-09 Thread Carlos Guia
Someone, maybe himself, used a similar set of languages last year's Qualification. He surely had tons of fun. Carlos Guía On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 1:42 PM, Satyajit Malugu malugu.satya...@gmail.comwrote: Wtf? How can he manage that? First time I am seeing that there is language called Brainfuck

[gcj] GPU programming

2009-09-09 Thread Vexorian
Dear fellow codejammers, excuse the slightly OT question, but I have been wondering about GPU and the possible improvements it could have in these contests (or whether there would be an improvement or not). These questions are mostly because I do not understand things like CUDA or how the GPU

[gcj] Re: Subrounds: you have been assigned to all of them

2009-09-09 Thread Vexorian
Sure, but the possibilities still exist, and thus I'd like something better, like being able to participate in the next rounds and just have your position ignored in case you already advanced. I just want to be able to participate in all three rounds :) On Sep 9, 12:34 pm, Luke Pebody

[gcj] Re: Egg Drop

2009-09-09 Thread sajith varghese
Sorry, I meant total floors only. No Black magic. If and else cases can be combined together as you are measuring the total number of floors, and each cases represent each side(below/top) of the current floor. Thanks On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 9:46 PM, Satyajit Malugu malugu.satya...@gmail.comwrote:

[gcj] Re: GPU programming

2009-09-09 Thread cyberfish
The way these contests are usually designed, if you have the right (or one of the right) algorithms, it won't take more than a second or 2, and making it faster is a waste of time. If you have the wrong algorithm, it will take you a few billion years, and optimizing it to take only a few million

[gcj] Re: favorite programming language?

2009-09-09 Thread Luke Pebody
i'm Bozzball. Not a monster. I just thought it would be fun. On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 7:29 PM, Satyajit Malugumalugu.satya...@gmail.com wrote: [  Brainf**k adaptation of Welcome to Code Jam Problem  Provided files:   Welcome.bf   bf2c.c  To create output file c-small.out from c-small.in:   

[gcj] Re: Subrounds: you have been assigned to all of them

2009-09-09 Thread Luke Pebody
You can do so. Just ensure that you do not qualify in the first two. On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 7:35 PM, Vexorianvexor...@gmail.com wrote: Sure, but the possibilities still exist, and thus I'd like something better, like being able to participate in the next rounds and just have your position

[gcj] Re: Question for java Coders

2009-09-09 Thread Nadeem Mohsin
There's no real need to use a StringBuilder either. You can just buffer your output using a PrintWriter - something like PrintWriter out = new PrintWriter(new BufferedWriter(...)); Then you can just use out.println() and out.printf() like you would do with System.out, and the buffering will all

[gcj] Easiest Round?

2009-09-09 Thread Brian Watkins
It looks like I've been assigned to all the rounds: 1A, 1B, and 1C. Maybe you have, too. Which do you figure will be the easiest to advance in? And which will be the hardest? The first round will probably be the hardest because all the top coders will advance leaving only the dregs to compete

[gcj] Re: Easiest Round?

2009-09-09 Thread Bey
So have you guys received your confirmation email? Coz I haven't and I got more than 33 points. Or are you talking about the post on this forum earlier? On Sep 9, 6:19 pm, Brian Watkins wildu...@gmail.com wrote: It looks like I've been assigned to all the rounds: 1A, 1B, and 1C. Maybe you

[gcj] Re: Easiest Round?

2009-09-09 Thread jiangwen jiang
not yet! 2009/9/10 Bey baltc...@gmail.com So have you guys received your confirmation email? Coz I haven't and I got more than 33 points. Or are you talking about the post on this forum earlier? On Sep 9, 6:19 pm, Brian Watkins wildu...@gmail.com wrote: It looks like I've been assigned

[gcj] Re: favorite programming language?

2009-09-09 Thread Roshan Amadoru
apperently that's not the only one. http://www.go-hero.net/jam/09/name/kirarinsnow On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 1:33 AM, Luke Pebody luke.peb...@gmail.com wrote: i'm Bozzball. Not a monster. I just thought it would be fun. On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 7:29 PM, Satyajit