I am writing this blog from my alt forking. On 21 September, my main account daemonfork got banned after the Codeforces Round 1122 (Div 3).
Initially, I honestly thought it was a false positive because I didn't know that taking hints would trigger a ban. This was only my 3rd contest and my first time making an account here, so I didn't fully understand the policy. I knew copy-pasting a whole solution was an instant ban, but after reading and understanding the full policy today, I realize now that taking hints is exactly what caused this.
Because of this misunderstanding, I got into a serious conversation with Um_nik in the contest blog earlier link to comment. I want to sincerely apologize to him for getting defensive and replying out of frustration. I was just stressed about the ban and hadn't realized my mistake yet.
I took mini hints on a few problems, but I really tried to write the actual code based on my own understanding. I have definitely learned my lesson about how strict the system is and what happens if you cross that line. I just need one chance to prove I can do this right, and I promise it won't happen again.
Tagging the admins and moderators to please re-evaluate the verdict and consider unbanning my account for a newbie mistake. MikeMirzayanov, KAN, Vladosiya, cry, WorldWarV
I got my account siriexo disabled too but good thing I've got a video of me winning the contest from start to finish
Great idea, will use this approach afterwards just wanted my acc to be acitvated again :(
Curious how you solved G in 5 minutes and why you did 2 different solutions for F1 and F2 when submitting F2 to both would work?
The video is sped up, so the apparent 5 minutes isn't the actual time spent on G, it took me longer and I also happened to already know the underlying idea which made it much quicker to solve
For F1/F2, I treated them as separate problems while solving. My F1 solution was the straightforward approach I came up with first while for F2 I derived a different approach that I thought was more appropriate for the harder constraints
I generally do this with Easy/Hard version problems because I like treating the harder version as a separate challenge rather than simply extending my Easy solution
Except I'm not talking about the video taking 5 minutes. I'm talking about you taking 5 minutes to solve G. Given the time on the timeline of your submissions. Also, your reasoning for F1/F2 makes zero sense. If you actually knew what you were doing, you would just solve the hard problem since it will pass the easy problem as well. The only thing that changed is constraints.
I see. What I meant was that I had already been working on/thinking about G before the F1 submission, so the 5-minute interval isn't the amount of time I spent deriving the idea for G; I think the recording shows me opening all the problems at once and then jumping from one problem to another in the video. Picked up this habit from a blog by tourist about moving between problems to keep thinking about them
For F1/F2, I understand why it sounds odd but I intentionally solved the two versions independently rather than taking my F1 solution and extending it to F2. I do this with Easy/Hard pairs because I like attempting the harder version from scratch. In this case that led me to two different implementations, even though the F2 solution would also work for F1. It's simply a way I like to approach these problems
Honestly, I don't see the point of lying to me for no reason. You state you were "Already working on G before F1" yet you open G for the first time after you submit to F1 at around 13:29 in the video. There would've been no way for you to even see the problem statement as you only had it open in a new tab, not focused on the screen. Also, at 13:38 in the video, the focused tab on the right side of the screen is your Codechef IDE, but we can see the ChatGPT tab named "Fix C++ Segment Tree"
Yeah, I did use ChatGPT here's the link of the chat:
https://chatgpt.com/share/6ab6df9c-5874-83ee-8648-44cd6179c3c5
I agree that the ChatGPT tab is visible. I wasn't trying to hide that I used it; I had understood this limited use to be permitted under the rules. I did not provide it with the problem statement, ask it for an algorithm or solution or use it to diagnose a wrong submission
Besides, I never advocated that the recording for sure shows me switching tabs. As I state this again, the video uploaded is a compressed and sped up version.
Even with the recording sped up by 1.5x as you state in the YouTube video, that's still roughly 30 minutes unaccounted for. If you truly wanted to post a video to serve as proof, you could try uploading the full unedited version of the video you took, but I'm sure that won't happen.
I understand. Unfortunately, I no longer have the unedited recording and the sped-up version I uploaded is the only copy I have remaining as I didn't save the original and directly edited it via web. Thank you for taking the time to look into this
You don't have to keep arguing. It's blatantly obvious to anyone with eyes, that this guy is clearly cheating. They literally posted a video of them coding a solution by typing the code from beginning to end without moving around, as if that's how humans code lmao. Clearly they have never solved a cp problem in their life.
I know, I just have nothing better to do with my time (besides solve more problems)
Idk man, if you’re really solving with that level of accuracy and understanding, I’d expect you to type wayyy faster than that :) The video is sped up and your typing still looks pretty slow, which feels kinda off. Not saying this proves anything tho, I could be wrong.
congrats to cry and worldwarv to their promotions as cf admins
I wonder when cry will get ban perms
actullay was tagging admins and moderators, the one who wrote problem blog XD