c****x
发帖数: 6601 | 1 Why do people from Eastern Europe and China now dominate coding competitions?
As Robert mentioned, I think the main thing is that the level of competition
has increased to an amount of commitment beyond what most people are
willing to put in. I was a coach at the ACM ICPC in 2005 and heard a similar
story about the Shanghai Jiao Tong University team practicing all day for
the entire previous summer. When I was on the Caltech team, the team members
weren't decided until a few months before the contest, and we only
practiced a few hours a month, mainly because everyone on the team had other
competing demands on their time.
In the US, the best students have opportunities to do research with
professors that will lead to them basically being guaranteed admission into
a top graduate school, they have easy access to internships at the top
companies, and they don't have as much to gain by winning. In other
countries, especially with worse economies, there aren't as many good
alternative ways to spend time, and doing well can significantly increase
everyone's opportunities. The cultures in those particular countries also
reinforce math and science and increase the pool of potential contestants.
I think this is mainly true of ICPC - if you look at the IOI (a high school
contest) there are a much wider variety of countries represented among the
top finishers, though Russia, China, and Poland are still strong there too.
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In the US, the best students have opportunities to do research with
professors that will lead to them basically being guaranteed admission into
a top graduate school, they have easy access to internships at the top
companies, and they don't have as much to gain by winning.
中国和老毛子之所以ACM刷得好，还不是因为不发达和优质资源稀缺。
洋大人定性了：没啥可得瑟的。 | s*****r
发帖数: 11545 | 2 What about Africa or some ethnic groups in US? Are they rich? Are white the
poorest in US? | s*****r
发帖数: 43070 | 3 说明数学好有卵用
俄罗斯确实很奇怪，要土地有土地，要资源有资源，GDP总量还不如中国一个省 | c****x
发帖数: 6601 | 4 黑客还是很裂害的。
【在 s*****r 的大作中提到】
: 说明数学好有卵用
: 俄罗斯确实很奇怪，要土地有土地，要资源有资源，GDP总量还不如中国一个省
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