The PuzzlOR

A programming competition, quarterly, with lots of ML-type stuff.

Programming competitions

OK, so there is such a thing as programming competitions, which I knew.  [Stanford course]  TopCoder is, in fact, structured as a set of programming competitions that lead to a complete product, which is kind of a neat idea, although exploitative of third-worlders if you ask me.  (I'm still going to poke around it for a while - I need to learn Java anyway.)

Anyway, so here's the thing.  All these take fairly clear statements of a problem, add domain knowledge that is fairly restricted, and output code.

If you actually read this blog - in which case, who are you? - I don't even need to finish.  You're already ahead of me.

Here's an online judge, at Peking U.