I will host my first lockout stream on Sunday, June 28, 19:00 CEST / 20:00 MSK, featuring tourist, Radewoosh, majk and Egor. I'm not sure if we will use Codeforces or Atcoder problems.

You can watch it live on https://www.twitch.tv/errichto and later on youtube.

Watch previous streams organized by ecnerwala (not alone), more info in blogs one, two and format/rules.

EDIT Congratulations to Egor for the win! You can watch the recording on Youtube https://youtu.be/N7ec-OoxvHg
I was a great experience, you should expect the next lockout at the end of July :)

While I have mixed feelings about division 4, I think it perfectly matches introducing the rating lowerbond in division 2.

Maybe 1501 is a good idea, I'm not sure. Or maybe let new participants have 1400 initially (upper bound for div4) and lowerbound for div2 would be 1401.

The benefits are decreased load for the main and rare div1+2 rounds, and possibility to slightly increase the difficulty of div2-abc, thus get back to the format with 5 problems per division (3 are common). Because the contest is then for a group of people with more similar skill level. These arguments aren't that important for div2-only contests so it's ok if those are without lowerbound, I don't care. Or make those div2+3 instead of div2-only, I again don't care.

You can watch me on https://www.twitch.tv/errichto or https://www.youtube.com/errichto2. There is schedule with countdown on Twitch. Most likely I will stream in May on Tuesday mornings and Sunday evenings.

• May 3, 16:45 CEST — Codeforces hard (solving hard problems because the round was moved)
• May 5, 9:00 CEST — Boring Programming Stream (planning videos, fixing chatbot, maybe learning Berlekamp–Massey)
• May 10, 18:00 CEST — Atcoder hard (Grand Contest 43?)
• May 12, 9:00 CEST — Atcoder hard or something similar to practice for Google Code Jam.
• May 17, 18:00 CEST — Chill stream. I will chat with the audience, implement an algorithm to move an elevator (https://play.elevatorsaga.com/) and try to dock Crew Dragon to the ISS (https://iss-sim.spacex.com/).
• May 19, 9:00 CEST — Codeforces hard (recent round #641)
• May 24, 18:00 CEST Atcoder hard (AGC 44, problems C and D)
• May 26, 9:00 CEST Gauss & Matrix expo (preparing future youtube lectures)
• May 31, 18:00 CEST May Leetcode Challenge (I will try to solve 30 problems in 1 hour. This is more mainstream so will be on the main YT channel Errichto https://youtu.be/0yemVXDBbyg)

(updated on May 30)

two recent videos for beginners: Computations Modulo P, Binary Exponentiation
in works: Matrix Expo, Gaussian Elimination, EV in Chain-graph, Berlekamp-Massey

JUNE UPDATE — June 20, 19:00 CEST solving random problems suggested by viewers

On Tuesday, April 14, I will solve random problems live on Youtube, until I hit 100k subs. Suggestions in the chat are welcome.

https://youtu.be/rEGDNd-9PAU (there's countdown to start)

I recently made two mainstream videos which are a good introduction to CP, I think.

How to start with Competitive Programming? https://youtu.be/xAeiXy8-9Y8

About Programming Competitions (Codeforces, Code Jam, ...) https://youtu.be/cpguolx2oms

UPD

What is Competitive Programming? https://youtu.be/ueNT-w7Oluw (by tmwilliamlin168)

HoW tO BEcOmE rEd cOdeR? https://youtu.be/y7169jEvb-Y

UPD2

Steps and Mistakes https://youtu.be/bVKHRtafgPc (by tmwilliamlin168 again)

At 18:00 CET on Saturday, as a warm-up before Google Hash Code qualification round, I will solve a practice problem (or just some old problem?) live together with my teammate kabuszki. You can watch us on YT or Twitch https://www.youtube.com/errichto2/live & https://www.twitch.tv/errichto. I know it collides with SRM but this time is convenient for me.

Maybe I will also record our qualification round performance on Thursday, we'll see.

Unrelated: expect a few short problem-solving streams next week, stay tuned.

I'm back to streaming and I plan the following three problem-solving streams, each lasting around 5 hours:

• At 8am CET on Thursday, February 6 AtCoder easy problems (ABC), including the most recent ABC 153.
• At 8am CET on Monday, February 10 AtCoder hard problems (AGC), including the most recent AGC 41 by tourist.
• At 8am CET on Thursday, February 13 LeetCode recent problems.

I will think out loud and talk about solutions, sometimes with implementation too. Streams 1 and 3 are meant to be educational, while stream 2 will be more of me thinking and struggling. I will not do virtual participation because the pressure of time doesn't go well with explaining anything.

You can watch me on my secondary Youtube channel https://www.youtube.com/errichto2/live or on Twitch https://www.twitch.tv/errichto.

See you in the chat :)

UPD — I will make shorter streams on Monday (the 17th) and Thursday (the 20th). It will be Codeforces div1C-D problems and Boring stream, respectively. I'm updating this old blog so I wouldn't spam with new one.

Part 1 (link) introduces basic bitwise operations. This is part 2 and it's mainly about (in)famous bitsets and example problems. Also, see links to very useful advanced stuff at the bottom. EDIT: here's video version of this blog (on my Youtube channel).

Built-in functions

In C++, __builtin_popcount(x) returns popcount of a number — the number of ones in the binary representation of $$$x$$$. Use __builtin_popcountll(x) for long longs.

There are also __builtin_clz and __builtin_ctz (and their long long versions) for counting the number of leading or trailing zeros in a positive number. Read more here. Now, try to solve these two simple tasks in $$$O(1)$$$, then open the spoiler to check the solution:

While popcount is often needed, I rarely use the other two functions. During a contest, I would solve the two tasks above in $$$O(\log x)$$$ with simple while-loops, because it's easier and more intuitive for me. Just be aware that these can be done in $$$O(1)$$$, and use clz or ctz if you need to speed up your solution.

Motivation behind bitsets

Consider this problem: There are $$$N \leq 5000$$$ workers. Each worker is available during some days of this month (which has 30 days). For each worker, you are given a set of numbers, each from interval $$$[1, 30]$$$, representing his/her availability. You need to assign an important project to two workers but they will be able to work on the project only when they are both available. Find two workers that are best for the job — maximize the number of days when both these workers are available.

You can compute the intersection of two workers (two sets) in $$$O(30)$$$ by using e.g. two pointers for two sorted sequences. Doing that for every pair of workers is $$$O(N^2 \cdot 30)$$$, slightly too slow.

We can think about the availability of a worker as a binary string of length $$$30$$$, which can be stored in a single int. With this representation, we can count the intersection size in $$$O(1)$$$ by using __builtin_popcount(x[i] & x[j]). The complexity becomes $$$O(N^2)$$$, fast enough.

What if we are given the availability for the whole year or in general for $$$D$$$ days? We can handle $$$D \leq 64$$$ in a single unsigned long long, what about bigger $$$D$$$?

We can split $$$D$$$ days into convenient parts of size $$$64$$$ and store the availability of a single worker in an array of $$$\frac{D}{64}$$$ unsigned long longs. Then, the intersection can be computed in $$$O(\frac{D}{64})$$$ and the whole complexity is $$$O(N^2 \cdot \frac{D}{64})$$$.

const int K = MAX_D / 64 + 1;
unsigned long long x[MAX_N][K];
int intersection(int i, int j) {
	int total = 0;
	for(int z = 0; z < K; z++) {
		total += __builtin_popcountll(x[i][z] & x[j][z]);
	}
	return total;
}

So, we can simulate a long binary number with multiple unsigned long longs. The implementation isn't that bad but doing binary shifts would be quite ugly. Turns out all of this can be done with bitsets easily.

Bitsets

bitset<365> is a binary number with $$$365$$$ bits available, and it supports most of binary operations. The code above changes into simple:

bitset<MAX_D> x[MAX_N];
int intersection(int i, int j) {
	return (x[i] & x[j]).count();
}

Some functions differ, e.g. x.count() instead of __builtin_popcount(x) but it's only more convenient. You can read and print binary numbers, construct a bitset from int or string bitset<100> a(17); bitset<100> b("1010");. You can even access particular bits with b[i]. Read more in C++ reference https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/utility/bitset.

Note that the size of the bitset must be a constant number. You can't read $$$n$$$ and then declare bitset<n> john;. If $$$n$$$ is up to $$$100$$$, just create bitset<100>.

The complexity of bitwise operations is $$$O(\frac{size}{32})$$$ or $$$O(\frac{size}{64})$$$, it depends on the architecture of your computer.

Problems

P1. Different numbers — You are given a sequence of $$$N \leq 10^7$$$ numbers, each from interval $$$[0, 10^9]$$$. How many different values appear in the sequence? Don't use set or unordered_set because they quite slow.

P2. Knapsack — You are given $$$N \leq 1000$$$ items, each with some weight $$$w_i$$$. Is there a subset of items with total weight exactly $$$W \leq 10^6$$$?

bool can[MAX_W];
int main() {
	int n, W;
	cin >> n >> W;
	can[0] = true;
	for(int id = 0; id < n; id++) {
		int x;
		cin >> x;
		for(int i = W; i >= x; i--) {
			if(can[i-x]) can[i] = true;
		}
	}
	puts(can[W] ? "YES" : "NO");
}

bitset<MAX_W> can;
int main() {
	int n, W;
	cin >> n >> W;
	can[0] = true;
	for(int id = 0; id < n; id++) {
		int x;
		cin >> x;
		can = can | (can << x); // or just: can |= (can << x);
	}
	puts(can[W] ? "YES" : "NO");

P3. Triangles in a graph — Given a graph with $$$n \leq 2000$$$ vertices and $$$m \leq n \cdot (n - 1) / 2$$$ edges, count triples of vertices $$$a, b, c$$$ such that there are edges $$$a-b$$$, $$$a-c$$$ and $$$b-c$$$.

P4. Chef and Queries — https://www.codechef.com/problems/CHEFQUE (easy)

P5. Odd Topic — https://www.codechef.com/AABH2020/problems/ODTPIC (medium), thanks to Not-Afraid for the suggestion

P6. Funny Gnomes — https://www.codechef.com/problems/SHAIKHGN (hard)

Bonuses

1) m & (m-1) turns off the lowest bit that was set to $$$1$$$ in a positive number $$$m$$$. For example, we get $$$24$$$ for $$$m = 26$$$, as $$$11010$$$ changes into $$$11000$$$. Explanation on quora
2) A quite similar trick allows us to iterate efficiently over all submasks of a mask, article on cp-algorithms / e-maxx. This article also explains why masks-submasks iteration is $$$O(3^n)$$$.
3) DP on broken profile (grid dp) — https://cp-algorithms.com/dynamic_programming/profile-dynamics.html
4) SOS dp (sum over subset) — https://codeforces.me/blog/entry/45223 & https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lpvsd8WpbWc&t=5m4s
5) _Find_next function and complexity notation for bitsets — https://codeforces.me/blog/entry/43718

I will add links to some problems in online judges, feel free to suggest some in the comments. I think that bonuses 3 and 4 lack some explanation with drawings, maybe I will make some soon.

You can watch my Youtube video (link) with the same content as this blog. Anyway, enjoy.

Introduction

Let's learn bitwise operations that are useful in Competitive Programming. Prerequisite is knowing the binary system. For example, the following must be clear for you already.

Keep in mind that we can pad a number with leading zeros to get the length equal to the size of our type size. For example, char has $$$8$$$ bits and int has $$$32$$$.

Bitwise AND, OR, XOR

You likely already know basic logical operations like AND and OR. Using if(condition1 && condition2) checks if both conditions are true, while OR (c1 || c2) requires at least one condition to be true.

Same can be done bit-per-bit with whole numbers, and it's called bitwise operations. You must know bitwise AND, OR and XOR, typed respectively as & | ^, each with just a single character. XOR of two bits is $$$1$$$ when exactly one of those two bits is $$$1$$$ (so, XOR corresponds to != operator on bits). There's also NOT but you won't use it often. Everything is explained in Wikipedia but here's an example for bitwise AND. It shows that 53 & 28 is equal to $$$20$$$.

53 = 110101
28 = 11100

  110101
&  11100  // imagine padding a shorter number with leading zeros to get the same length
 -------
  010100  =  20

#include <bits/stdc++.h>
using namespace std;

string to_binary(int x) {
	string s;
	while(x > 0) {
		s += (x % 2 ? '1' : '0');
		x /= 2;
	}
	reverse(s.begin(), s.end());
	return s;
}

int main() {
	cout << "13 = " << to_binary(13) << endl; // 1101
	
	int x = 53;
	int y = 28;
	cout << "x = " << to_binary(x) << ", y = " << to_binary(y) << endl;
	
	cout << "AND, OR, XOR:" << endl;
	cout << to_binary(x & y) << " " << to_binary(x | y) << " " << to_binary(x ^ y) << endl;
}

Shifts

There are also bitwise shifts << and >>, not having anything to do with operators used with cin and cout.

As the arrows suggest, the left shift << shifts bits to the left, increasing the value of the number. Here's what happens with 13 << 2 — a number $$$13$$$ shifted by $$$2$$$ to the left.

    LEFT SHIFT                             RIGHT SHIFT
       13 =     1101                          13 =   1101
(13 << 2) =   110100                   (13 >> 2) =     11   

If there is no overflow, an expression x << b is equal to $$$x \cdot 2^b$$$, like here we had (13 << 2) = 52.

Similarly, the right shift >> shifts bits to the right and some bits might disappear this way, like bits 01 in the example above. An expression x >> b is equal to the floor of $$$\frac{x}{2^b}$$$. It's more complicated for negative numbers but we won't discuss it.

So what can we do?

$$$2^k$$$ is just 1 << k or 1LL << k if you need long longs. Such a number has binary representation like 10000 and its AND with any number $$$x$$$ can have at most one bit on (one bit equal to $$$1$$$). This way we can check if some bit is on in number $$$x$$$. The following code finds ones in the binary representation of $$$x$$$, assuming that $$$x \in [0, 10^9]$$$:

for(int i = 0; i < 30; i++) if((x & (1 << i)) != 0) cout << i << " ";

(we don't have to check $$$i = 30$$$ because $$$2^{30} > x$$$)

And let's do that slightly better, stopping for too big bits, and using the fact that if(value) checks if value is non-zero in C++.

for(int i = 0; (1 << i) <= x; i++) if(x & (1 << i)) cout << i << " ";

Consider this problem: You are given $$$N \leq 20$$$ numbers, each up to $$$10^9$$$. Is there a subset with sum equal to given goal $$$S$$$?

It can be solved with recursion but there's a very elegant iterative approach that iterates over every number $$$x$$$ from $$$0$$$ to $$$2^n - 1$$$ and considers $$$x$$$ to be a binary number of length $$$n$$$, where bit $$$1$$$ means taking a number and bit $$$0$$$ is not taking. Understanding this is crucial to solve any harder problems with bitwise operations. Analyze the following code and then try to write it yourself from scratch without looking at mine.

for(int mask = 0; mask < (1 << n); mask++) {
	long long sum_of_this_subset = 0;
	for(int i = 0; i < n; i++) {
		if(mask & (1 << i)) {
			sum_of_this_subset += a[i];
		}
	}
	if(sum_of_this_subset == S) {
		puts("YES");
		return 0;
	}
}
puts("NO");

Two easy problems where you can practice iterating over all $$$2^N$$$ possibilities:
- https://codeforces.me/problemset/problem/1097/B
- https://codeforces.me/problemset/problem/550/B

Speed

Time complexity of every bitwise operation is $$$O(1)$$$. These operations are very very fast (well, popcount is just fast) and doing $$$10^9$$$ of them might fit in 1 second. You will later learn about bitsets which often produce complexity like $$$O(\frac{n^2}{32})$$$, good enough to pass constraints $$$n \leq 10^5$$$.

I will welcome any feedback. Coming next: popcount, bitsets, dp with bitmasks. I will also make a YT video on this. YT video link is at the top.

Part 2 link

Instructions how to setup up Linux and Geany for competitive programming: https://github.com/Errichto/youtube/wiki/Linux-setup

An optional video that shows the process: https://youtu.be/ePZEkbbf3fc

I created this because so many people ask me about my environment and compilations flags. You don't have to follow exactly these steps or actually use Linux at all. Remember that 99% of your performance comes from skills so you should focus on that instead of worrying too much about tools you use.

Previous part: https://codeforces.me/blog/entry/63606

Apparently, one of problems had incorrect output data. Can someone confirm? On the bright side, no huge technical issues this year afaik.

Unpopular opinion here: Prague isn't a good organizer :O

Also, some disqualification in the top happened :O

I and Lewin will do some commentary of TCO semifinal 1, starting in a few minutes. Watch it on TCO Twitch website.

Stream: https://www.twitch.tv/topcoder_official

Statements: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1OjmXL8DMDiWf92XhLch_xjjPVA21-dvIhcnYEh_0CbM/edit?usp=sharing

You can watch the lecture on Youtube: https://youtu.be/0r2D32esF3Y. I will do a second part soon. Some problems are quite vague, it's a nature of this topic.

1. Warm-up: You toss a coin till you get tails. How many tosses there will be, on average?
2. X or smaller — There is a hidden number $$$X$$$. An interactor repeatedly gives you a number, either $$$X$$$ or something smaller than $$$X$$$. All numbers are positive integers. When can you stop and say that you are (almost) certain what is the value of $$$X$$$?
3. Line through N/4 points — Given $$$N \leq 10^5$$$ points, find a line that passes through the maximum number of points. It's guaranteed that the answer is at least $$$N / 4$$$.
4. GCD (364D - Ghd) — given a set of $$$N \leq 10^6$$$ numbers, each up to $$$10^{12}$$$, find the maximum possible number that is a divisor of at least half of given numbers.
5. ACTG prefix — Guess a hidden string $$$S$$$ with characters A, C, T, G. You can choose some string and ask if it's a prefix of $$$S$$$. The length of $$$S$$$ is at most $$$10\,000$$$ and you can ask up to $$$25\,000$$$ queries.
6. How many tails you will get after tossing a fair coin $$$10^6$$$ times? It should be around $$$500\,000$$$, but how far away from this number can you realistically/plausibly get?
7. Don't use a fixed seed in Codeforces or Topcoder because somebody can hack/challenge you.
8. RAND_MAX in Codefoces is around $$$30\,000$$$, so use your own rand() in C++, same for random_shuffle(). More here: https://codeforces.me/blog/entry/61587

More (and harder) problems can be found here: https://codeforces.me/blog/entry/51244

And if you want to learn more about expected value: https://codeforces.me/blog/entry/62690

Save trees: https://youtu.be/TnCVAEsYGKs #TeamTrees

EDIT, part 2: https://youtu.be/GS2MxmorEzc

1. Catch 'em all — When you encounter a Pokemon, it's random out of $$$N$$$ types. How many Pokemon will you encounter (on average) before seeing all $$$N$$$ types? Estimate this value.
2. Birthday paradox — How many encounters before we see the same type of Pokemon twice?
3. Hash collision — what is the probability of hash collision in problems like "given queries, check if this substring is equal to that substring" compared to "given a bunch of strings, find a pair of equal strings". The latter has much bigger probability of collision. Why?
4. How to randomly shuffle an array?
5. Repeated binary search — Find max element in a hidden sequence by asking queries "is $$$a_i$$$ greater than $$$x$$$?" faster than $$$\mathcal O(n \log n)$$$, https://codeforces.me/blog/entry/62602
6. Bonus: estimate $$$\pi$$$ using randomized algorithm.

There are two mainstream contests tomorrow (Google Kickstart and Leetcode biweekly) and I will make a live stream just after them at 18:30 CEST on Saturday. After talking about some problems from those contests, I will upsolve Codeforces or Topcoder problems, maybe from a recent CF round by tourist.

Watch me on Youtube — https://youtu.be/w3W-w0EXEtc.

Hey, hi, hello.

Codeforces Round 584 - Dasha Code Championship - Elimination Round (rated, open for everyone, Div. 1 + Div. 2) starts on Sep/14/2019 16:05 (Moscow time) and lasts 2h30m. The score drain will be adjusted for longer contest duration. It's a combined rated round with around eight problems. It is open and it is rated for everybody. Yes, it's rated. There are Dasha t-shirts for top 30 competitors (not counting later-to-be onsite finalists).

As an extra, this is an elimination round for those who live in/near SPb/Novosibirsk. More info about the championship is in the other blog. Thanks to Dasha.AI for making such an event for the community!

Problems are prepared by MikeMirzayanov, FieryPhoenix, dragonslayerintraining and Errichto. One of these setters also created Codeforces, thanks for that! And huge thanks to cdkrot for coordinating the round, to Merkurev, isaf27, KAN and me for testing, and finally to mareksom, Radewoosh and Marcin_smu for some small help.

I wish you more fun than bugs. Enjoy the contest!

PS. I recorded the process of preparing one problem with commentary, will publish it on Youtube after the contest. EDIT: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IaViSV0YBog

UPDATE, points: A 500, B 500, C 1250, D 1500, E 1000+1500, F 2500, G 1500+2250, H 4000. There are 8 problems and 2 of them are split into two versions. Good luck!

UPDATE, huge congratulations to winners!

1. Petr
2. jqdai0815
3. LayCurse
4. zeliboba
5. 300iq

I was the author of last two problems: Into Blocks (but thanks for cdkrot for preparing it!) and Walkways, hope you liked them.

UPDATE, editorial is out.

I think that all problems looked awful at the first sight but actually all were quite cool :O

editorial (was posted as announcement after the round)

Congratulations to advancers! Results screenshot below (top10 gets to the finals + some early advancers from previous rounds).

I conducted a camp for Kazakhstan via the Internet and I was allowed to record it. I'm putting some of those lectures and problem analysis on Youtube. Maybe it will be useful for participants who are still practicing. See recent videos here, https://www.youtube.com/errichto2.

There are currently solutions for Innopolis Open 2018-19 (cool hard contest in CF GYM), two days of POI 23 (2015-2016) and also a lecture on wavelet trees. Innopolis Open solutions include these two methods:

Will soon add some more, including segment tree beats and Li Chao tree.

I want to go to Joker's Asylum ER in San Jose (California) on the 7th of August, two days before GCJ finals. It's a difficult escape room and a team should consist of 5-10 people. So far, there's me and my friend — not really pros. I'm looking for more people to go there and maybe grab a beer later. If the date is fine for you and you are good at ER and/or algo, write a DM to me.

This room has very good reviews and the escape room veteran Swistakk recommends it a lot. Sounds promising, right?

I recorded a 30-minute lecture about binary search. It should allow you to really understand it and stop guessing about +1 in random places. Enjoy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GU7DpgHINWQ

Consider watching with captions on and with x1.25 speed.

Which one should we use?

Competitive Programming is used more often but it has stupid abbreviation (Cerebral Palsy and Child Pornography). Some Youtube accounts about Pokemon Go were actually banned for using that because of Combat Points. Here you can read things like "My Club Penguin video had been flagged for sexual content". This also means it isn't cool to write "I'm addicted to CP" in any social media. Urban Dictionary says that SP means Sex Party, but I don't think it's common and at least it isn't something shameful/harmful.

I think the Polish term is "programowanie sportowe" (sports programming) but sometimes we just say English words "competitive programming". The Russian say "Спортивное программирование" (sports programming), in Portuguese it is "Maratona de Programação" (programming marathon). What do you say in your language? In particular, I would like to hear native speakers to state their opinion.

And Sports Programming is arguably cooler.

I'm asking because I want to make videos like "What is Competitive Programming?" and "How to start with ...", "TOP FIVE BEST COMPETITIVE PROGRAMMING PLATFORMS OF 2019, YOU WON'T BELIEVE NUMBER 4" etc. If we prefer Sports Programming, I will use it instead.

EDIT: A huge argument for CP is ofc. that we use it like 99% of time. There are some single occurrences of SP, e.g. "The ICPC is the world’s premiere university sports programming competition" on the ICPC 2019 website, but it's a minority.

Hi.

Even more streams are coming. For notifications, subscribe to my secondary channel for streams Errichto 2, or you can watch me on Twitch.

Stream 1 — Monday at 12:00 CEST, I want to check out coding interview platforms like Leetcode. Here's Youtube link.

Stream 2 — Tuesday at 9:00 CEST. Algo research and writing old editorials. Links to part 1 and part 2 (the stream stopped for a few seconds and the new one started).

Stream 3 — Friday at 12:00 CEST. Solving Codeforces problems, mainly around div1D div2D (sorry, a typo). In particular, I will solve rounds #560, #561 and Edu #65. Links to part 1 and part 2. Again, the stream stopped for a moment and YT splitted it into two.

See ya.

Same plan next week:

Stream 4 — Monday, 27th of May, at 12:00 CEST. Boring stream with planning my future blogs and Youtube videos. Link.

Stream 5 — Tuesday at 9:00 CEST. Coding interview platforms again. Link

Stream 6 — Friday at 12:00 CEST. Some old POI problems. I will choose something and update the post so you could read problems and think about them in advance. Data structures for coding interviews like linked lists. (After an update, Linux stopped working on my PC, so no coding stream.) Link

Hi.

I will make two streams this week. Both will be on my YT channel Errichto 2 and on Twitch. My streams will usually be on that second YT channel, while my main channel is for short educational videos, also outside of competitive programming.

Stream 1 — Thursday at 9am, virtual participation of PSUT Coding Marathon 2019 with commentary, just like Atcoder DP stream. The contest is in GYM (link). The original announcement by Hasan0540 is here.

Stream 2 — Friday at 2pm, boring programming stream: maintaining and planning my YT channel, checking out blogs, checking out new game on Codingame (it will start too late), finishing problems from PSUT stream.

See ya.

Google Code Jam round 1A starts in less than 3 hours. https://codingcompetitions.withgoogle.com/codejam

In each of rounds 1A, 1B, 1C, top 1500 participants will advance to round 2 (4500 in total).

I'm not going to participate (because it's the middle of a night for me), but a reminder might help other people.

Hi.

On Wednesday at 9:05 CET / 8:05 UCT you can participate in the GYM version of the finals of 2017-2018 Russian Olympiad in Informatics (ROI), Day 1. And on Thursday there will be day 2, same time.

Links to GYM contets: day1 and day2.

5 hours, 4 problems, IOI-style scoring with subtasks. Statements will be available in three languages: English, Russian, Polish.

We wanted to use those problems in a camp in Warsaw so we had to import the problems to some system anyway. Then why not Polygon+Codeforces and thus allowing everybody to participate? Huge thanks to MikeMirzayanov for helping me with using GYM.

And credits to problem authors: Andreikkaa for Radium, Endagorion for Viruses, pashka for Innophone, Георгий Корнеев and GlebsHP for Quantum Teleportation.

Second day authors: cdkrot for Decryption, "jury" for Quick Sort, GlebsHP for Robomarathon, Endagorion for Addition without carry.

I will post a very short editorial in English here, after the contest.

Second day tomorrow, same time.

Thank you for participation.

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There was a blog that chemthan got hacked, and indeed I got strange messages from his account, asking for help with problems from the next Google Kickstart. The blog is now deleted. It would be nice to hear from some friends of his whether everything is ok now. chemthan1 is allegedly his temporary alt account. Also, ikatanic was mentioned.

I can remove this blog a few days after everything is resolved, if chemthan wishes so.