As I was watching the Global Round 27 ranklist today, I can't stop but notice that 17th place sammyuri was only an IM before contest and pulled off a LGM performance! Not only that, he will become IGM after this contest!
After some research, I realized that Sam also made one of my favorite videos, Minecraft in Minecraft. And he just got an IOI gold medal in the most recent IOI 2024. Although I do not know Sam personally, I would still like to give him my felicitations and I wish him the best future!
sammyuri orz
Wow I remember my friend showing this to me a year or two ago. I wonder if minecraft in minecraft in minecraft is possible.
Red Isn't Impossible. ~Bakry
yes it is.
It is definitely impossible for most people. Tbh, I think that it is an extreme uphill battle even with IQ $$$2$$$ sd above average. I think you might need to be like $$$2.\bar{6}-3$$$ sd above average to become red. This range is somewhat backed by the research on the issue. That is okay, though. It is all about killing time (in a good way) and solving interesting problems at the end of the day.
Definitely more than 3sd. I'm failing at staying above expert...
Do not worry man; everyone has bad contests. It can be inferred from Ecclesiastes 3 that there is a time to gain rating and a time to lose rating, just like how there is a time to be born and a time to die. That is just how God made it. Since you have lost some rating, you will surely gain some soon. Also, it is not so bad if getting to red is impossible. We just gotta make the most with what God gave us.
Where is the research?
Tagging Jasonwei08
Well hopefully it is not so disappointing, but most of the research on this subject is not finished. There are a few reddit threads out there that have some discussion about it, and of course there is the one study with the OpenPsych test (not a great test, but some stuff can be inferred), but unfortunately I might be the only person actively making inferences wrt this subject. I do actually have a bit of in-progress stuff (which looks like it will be pretty conclusive), and I will post it when I am finished, but that might not be for a few weeks or a month or two.
For now, there is the study I linked, this one implying that there isn't too much of an IQ difference between a $$$2100$$$ and an $$$1800$$$ and this one showing what is called "wisdom of the crowd." I think, for the last one, people voting $$$<110$$$ are trolls, so just ignore them. So, actually, the average of a master is probably around 130.
Groundbreaking stuff. Looking forward to the results.
Interesting, thanks!
Just curious, where can I find said research?
sammyuri orz
I was quite alarmed in the last 30 seconds of the contest to realise that my solution 288318171 to D was actually hackable! I had neglected to keep prefix sums of the answer in the monotonic stack, so it runs in $$$O(n^2)$$$ in the worst case. Fortunately no such tests existed in the system tests.
Feels good to finally be red!!
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plot twist: he was downvoting
i too :))