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One important aspect of leetcode/coding contest problems is that they have a input size constraint and a time limit constraint. You can use the two to figure out what is the time c…

A lot of people reading the paper miss this. I guess it's not emphasized enough. In the first paper, the selfplay trained policy is about 1500 in elo rating, while darkforest2 a su…

Attention is used in machine translation since 2014 as far as i know (Dzmitry Bahdanau, Kyunghyun Cho, Yoshua Bengio: Neural Machine Translation by Jointly Learning to Align and Tr…

He is referring to this paper https://research.googleblog.com/2017/06/multimodel-multi-tas... Where they used one model to do image recognition, speech recognition and translation …

No batch norm for LSTMs

they probably used the meet in the middle technique: http://www.infoarena.ro/blog/meet-in-the-middle

Here's some more background around Petr http://www.quora.com/Petr-Mitrichev/What-it-is-like-to-meet-... And some discussion around Russia and China dominating in coding contests ht…

Any others?

It takes time and practice. You won't get the practice at work. I dealt with a network flow problem a while back and a spell correction for URLs problem before that. In the last ye…

Lost in translation type differences in evaluating projects for people in US, Romania or the startup community.

Picking up algorithm skills on the job is not that easy. You really have to spend some time, think problems though, play with them and internalize the learnings. Your job in any co…

2002 is quite a while back, the problems have steadily increased in difficulty, try and look at a div 1 set now. Also the competition is much tougher as back then I think the site …

Yup, was thinking the same. He didn't do enough contests to escape higher volatility in the low ratings.

That rating is pretty low. Your average guy that gets hired at Google or Facebook is >1500 in rating probably.

Adam D'Angelo's (former FaceBook CTO) TopCoder profile: dangelo Algorithm Rating: 2351 Total Earnings: $3,082.50 School: California Institute of Technology http://www.topcoder.com/…