My friends from Harbour.Space and Remy Robotics asked to publish the news. I am excited and glad to do it, because for our community this is a true exclusive offer. In short, they offer to study robotics in Barcelona, paying for your studies and even with a scholarship! It's so cool!

Here is a direct speech from Harbour.Space.

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Hi Codeforces!

We are excited to announce our new Master’s in Robotics programme scholarship, which will be paired alongside an internship with our partner Remy Robotics! The programme will begin on January 7th, 2019, at our university in Barcelona, Spain.

Harbour.Space’s Robotics programme is the bridge between a personal interest in the world of Robotics, Artificial Intelligence, and a top-level professional future in one of the most exciting and fastest growing fields of technology. Students who enter the programme will either graduate as Control Engineers (theoretical specialists who ensure that robots interact with the environment in safe and effective manner), or CV Engineers (industrial manufacturers of robots, based more on practical experience).

Students will learn the Design and Control for Dexterous Manipulation; Kinematics, Dynamics and Control; Advanced Manipulation Algorithms robots use to physically interact with their world; Dynamic Optimisation for behavioral control; Integrated Intelligence in Robotics: Vision, Language, and Planning which builds upon the cognitive development; Mechanics of Manipulation focusing on using intelligent development of kinematic constraint, gravity, and friction; Manipulation, Estimation, and Control allowing for robots to locomote and navigate the world; Reinforcement learning in Robotics.

SCHOLARSHIP VALUE: €34,900

The scholarship includes:

• Complete coverage of the University tuition fee (€22,900)

• Living allowance (€1,000 per month during 1 year)

• Internship at Remy Robotics (20h per week during 1 year)

REQUIRED EDUCATION:

Bachelor's or Master's Degree in Robotics or Computer, Electrical, Mechanical Engineering or related disciplines.

QUALIFICATIONS AND SKILLS:

• Hands-on robotic programming
• Ideally experience within the automotive manufacturing sector
• Knowledge understanding of robot control interface with ancillary equipment
• Use of robot simulation packages
• Deep experience with all things robotic, from infrastructure-free autonomy to ROS, computer vision, and machine learning
• Experience working with robot parts and components, developing robotics devices
• Ability to concurrently manage multiple diverse and often complex issues and / or projects at the nexus of software, sensors, and hardware

To be selected for this programme, you will need to go through the following steps:

1. Fill out the given form by the link: https://codeforces.me/userForm/89f420923cb55373
2. Attend a series of online tests and interviews with our admissions office and partners
3. Pack your bags for Barcelona!

Hungry for yet another contest? On Sunday, October 7, 2018 at 17:05 UTC the Lyft Level 5 Challenge will start with the Round 1! This is a combined round having 7 problems and lasting 2 hours, and it will be rated.

The top 100 participants of this round will win a Lyft Level 5 Challenge t-shirt. The top 30 contestants located in the San Francisco Bay area will be invited to the Final Round.

In the Final Round the top three onsite contestants will fight for the cash prizes:

• First place: $2000
• Second place: $1000
• Third place: $500

Many thanks to:

• arsijo for the round coordination,
• fhlasek, KAN, Nazikk, Sonechko, stanislav.bezkorovainyi, MaxZubec for testing the round
• MikeMirzayanov for Codeforces and Polygon platforms
• Lyft for sponsoring the round
• Alice and Bob for playing a crucial role in some of the statements

I'll be on the community Discord server shortly after the contest to discuss the problems.

UPDATE 1: The scoring distribution will be 500-1000-1500-2250-2750-3250-4000.

UPDATE 2: The contest is over and there is an editorial.

UPDATE 3: Congratulations to the winners:

1. tourist
2. V--o_o--V
3. DearMargaret
4. Errichto
5. 300iq

We are thrilled to announce the Lyft Level 5 Challenge hosted by Codeforces and sponsored by Lyft. This international competition consists of two, timed rounds, where competitors will solve multiple algorithmic puzzles much like the ones we’re solving at Level 5, Lyft’s self-driving division.

Round 1: Elimination

On Sunday, October 7, 2018 at 10:00 PDT, the competition kicks off with a standard two-hour round of seven problems. The top 100 participants will win a Lyft Level 5 Challenge t-shirt. The top 30 contestants located in the San Francisco Bay area will be invited to Round 2.

Round 2: Final at Level 5

On Sunday, November 4, 2018 at 10:00 PST, round 2 kicks off with a standard two-hour round of five problems. Up to 30 contestants will compete for prizes at the Level 5 Engineering Center in Palo Alto, California, and Codeforces will host a parallel round for offsite participants. After the challenge, stick around for a Level 5 team social.

Round 2 Prizes

• First place: $2000
• Second place: $1000
• Third place: $500

Terms and conditions apply.

About Level 5

Level 5 is Lyft’s self-driving division based in Palo Alto, California, and Munich, Germany, where we’re building a full self-driving system. Engineers at Level 5 are equipping vehicles with the latest advancements in sensors and applying deep learning to predict and perceive the world around us. We’re leveraging route by route data from the 10 million Lyft rides completed weekly to both rapidly advance our technology and train our vehicles.

Every member of our fast-moving, collaborative team has the opportunity to have an outsized influence on our self-driving development. And we’re passionate problem solvers, too. Meet Vladimir Iglovikov [kaggle], Viktor Barinov [cf, tc], and Alex Lapin [kaggle, cf, tc].

Help define the future of self-driving technology with us at Level 5. See our open roles at lyft.com/level5, and follow us on Twitter @LyftLevel5.

What is Lyft?

Lyft is the fastest growing ridesharing company in the United States with coverage for over 95% of Americans in all 50 states. We’re working toward our mission of improving people’s lives with the world’s best transportation.

Всем привет!

Завтра (5 октября, 17:35 (UTC+3)) состоится Codeforces Round #514 (Div. 2). Раунд будет рейтинговым для второго дивизиона (рейтинг ниже 2100). Участники из первого дивизиона могут написать контест вне конкурса.

Выражаю благодарность KAN за его помощь с задачами и координацию раунда, Aleks5d и Um_nik за тестирование раунда и, конечно, MikeMirzayanov за замечательные платформы Codeforces и Polygon.

Вам будет предложено 5 задач и 2 часа на их решение.

UPD: разбалловка 500-1000-1500-2000-2500

UPD2: Поздравляем победителей!
Div. 2:
1. qingczha
2. PaidySung
3. Hyperbolic
4. memopaper
5. reku

Оба дивизиона:
1. Radewoosh
2. qingczha
3. natsugiri
4. nuip
5. PaidySung

UPD3: разбор

Удачи!

On Oct/04/2018 10:05 (Moscow time), the Codeforces Round 513 by Barcelona Bootcamp (rated, Div. 1 + Div. 2) will start. This is a special round for the Hello Barcelona Programming Bootcamp, in collaboration with Moscow Workshops ICPC. It is rated for all participants, everybody can register on it regardless of a rating.

Hello Barcelona Programming Bootcamp is sponsored by VTB and Indeed Tokyo, with the addition of team sponsors Phaze Ventures, Spark Labs and REMY Robotics.

VTB, the largest international bank based in Eastern Europe, continues to be an official partner of the Hello Programming Bootcamp series, adding further quality to the 3rd edition of the Hello Barcelona Programming Bootcamp by bringing their own participants, as well as by supporting top teams from around the world.

Indeed Tokyo is Japan's branch of the #1 employment website in the world, giving job seekers free access to millions of jobs from thousands of company websites and job boards. As they sponsor for the second year in a row, Indeed continues to offer the best job opportunities to the boot camp participants.

Wish good luck to all the participants!

There will be 8 problems, common for both division. Score distribution: 500 750 1250 1500 1750 2250 2750 3000.

The problems are prepared by me, Arterm and GlebsHP, with assistance from 300iq, ifsmirnov and vintage_Vlad_Makeev. Have fun!

Hey Codeforces!

I made a thing and I want to share it with the community.

We wanted to keep track of achievements and submissions in our team and using Codeforces status page is not really handy. Therefore, I introduce to you Team dashboard.

Here you can find some kind of a timeline for each member of your team, showing last submissions, contests and even blog posts on Codeforces.

Using this script is pretty easy, just specify up to 3 handles in the address, separated by semicolons (please check below). Also please keep in mind that this script was made in 3-4 hours, so there is almost certainly a handful of bugs. Also, the script asks a lot of queries to the Codeforces API, so sometimes not all requests are answered. You should wait a couple of seconds and try again.

Visit right now and bookmark your team:

http://weaselcrow.com/pro/cf/team/?h=Radewoosh;Errichto;kostka

You can also compare yourself with your archenemy:

http://weaselcrow.com/pro/cf/team/?h=kostka;olekluka

Upd: fixed some bugs, including incorrect places and no response if no one from the team submitted anything.

Upd2: fixed bug with blocked blogs.

Upd3: you can now request as many days as you want, adding d argument, for instance:

http://weaselcrow.com/pro/cf/team/?h=mnbvmar&d=60

Please use it carefully, as requesting too many days will probably timeout.

Upd4: added team rating, as calculated by Codeforces.

Upd5: added problem ratings.

Hello beloved community, today I am happy to present you codeforce's contest picker which is a public version of our internal community's picker that can be read about here.

This is a continuation of CPC (Competitive Programming Community) project that you can check out in my older blogs.

What does it do?

It's simple, you add a list of handles and it will pick you all the contests that none of the handles had tried (submitted, not necessarily accepted) before.

Gym is now included:

Since ICPC is near, I decided to include gym contests since you guys probably want to do them with your teams? I hope I was right.

Normal rounds are also included:

Right at the top of the website you see Virtual Contest Picker.

Searching works.

Both Virtual Contests / Gym Pickers have a search bar that filters the list using some string. If you want to do past ACM regionals with your mates you can just type ACM in the search-bar and it will show you ... contests whose name contains ACM.. obviously.

Usage:

1- Visit our website (below).

2- Choose your picker.

3- Add a list of handles.

4- Choose the contest.

5- Solve the contest.

6- Go to ICPC.

7- Beat Um_nik and his team.

Step 6 and 7 are optional. Jk, 1 to 5 are the optional.

Credits: Laggy Bassel

I want to try streaming competitive programming. The goal is to make it educational so I will be talking a lot, also answering (at least some) questions.

I'm planning three completely different streams to see what format to use:

1. Solving random easy-medium problems.
2. Solving old problems from Polish olympiad.
3. Post-contest stream, assuming I'm a setter or tester of a contest. Similar to what scott_wu, ecnerwala and stevenkplus did.

Any thoughts, ideas?

The first stream will most likely be on Sunday, starting around 7-8pm CEST. I will use Twitch and talk in English only. These first streams should show me and you whether it's cool and useful, and whether I like doing it.

Also, I will try to make the video accessible later.

--- UPDATE ---

The first stream will start on Saturday at 10am CEST (check your timezone) here: https://www.twitch.tv/errichto. I will solve some div1 A-C problems, not necessarily from Codeforces.

--- UPDATE 2 ---

The second stream on Sunday evening, with problems from POI 22, round 1. You can try to solve them yourself first — link. I will do problems from POI in a few days.

I will start today at 19:35 CEST (check your timezone) and I will talk about hard problems from this year TCO qualification rounds. If I do well in SRM today, I can start with problems from the round first. So, the main topic is hard DP problems, I guess. I prefer to stream on Youtube today, but I have some difficulties. I will announce here where the stream will happen. If someone has experience with Youtube live, please write to me.

I will stream on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBr_Fu6q9iHYQCh13jmpbrg.

--- UPDATE 3 ---

SRM was moved by one hour, so my stream will start at 20:35 CEST.

16 июля мы запустили некоммерческий краудфандинг на печать «Гарри Поттера и методов рационального мышления». Он собрал больше 8 миллионов рублей, став вторым в топе российских краудфандинг-проектов по объёму сборов. После печати тиража мы подарим трёхтомники ГПиМРМ школьникам и студентам бакалавриата/специалитета, побеждавшим в олимпиадах.

О чём это вообще?

Книга популяризует идеи критического мышления и эффективного альтруизма — и мы решили, что стоит распространить её среди талантливых людей, которые благодаря ГПиМРМ смогут принести наибольшую пользу миру.

Подробности — под катом.

Добрый день!

В воскресенье, 23-го сентября в 16:05 по московскому времени состоится Отборочный Раунд 1 олимпиады для школьников Технокубок 2019. Раунд будет длиться два часа, участникам будут предложены 7 задач. По его результатам лучшие участники (но не более 45% от общего числа участников раунда) будут приглашены на финальный этап в Москву. Для регистрации на раунд и участия перейдите по ссылке. Не забудьте заранее зарегистрироваться на раунд! Для опоздавших будет открыта дополнительная регистрация (с 16:15 до 18:05).

Зарегистрироваться на Отборочный Раунд 1 →
Соревнование открыто для всех в виде отдельных раундов для первого и второго дивизионов.
Для всех участников всех трех редакций этого соревнования будет пересчитан рейтинг.

Параллельно с Отборочным Раундом будут проведены открытые рейтинговые раунды для обоих дивизионов, в них могут принять участие все желающие.

Напомним, что согласно правилам раундов Codeforces во время соревнования ваши решения будут тестироваться только на претестах (предварительном и неполном наборе тестов), а системное тестирование состоится после окончания раунда. Обратите внимание, что претесты не покрывают все возможные случаи входных данных, поэтому тщательно тестируйте свои программы! После прохождения претестов у вас будет возможность заблокировать решение, тем самым получив привилегию искать ошибки и взламывать чужие решения, но отказавшись от возможности перепослать ваше решение при каких-либо обстоятельствах (например, даже если вы найдете ошибку или вас взломают). Со временем задачи падают в стоимости. После системного тестирования учитываются только полные решения. Подробнее про правила соревнований можно прочитать по ссылкам:

• короткое описание формата
• полное описание формата

Регистрация на олимпиаду Технокубок еще открыта. Победителей и призеров олимпиады ждут значительные квоты при поступлении в престижные технические вузы России и ценные призы! Если вы — школьник 8-11 классов и пока не зарегистрировались на Технокубок, то самое время сделать это:

Зарегистрироваться на олимпиаду →
После регистрации на олимпиаду не забудьте зарегистрироваться на Отборочный Раунд!

В финал соревнования будут приглашены лучшие участники каждого из отборочных раундов (но не более 45% от общего числа участников раунда).

Авторы отборочного раунда — Roms, BledDest и adedalic. Дополнить раунд до полноценного div. 1 помог Anadi как автор задачи, спасибо ему и arsijo за помощь в координировании. Кроме того, хочу выразить благодарность тестерам, без помощи которых этот раунд не состоялся бы: winger, Um_nik, AlexFetisov, Denisson!