Expert for the first time since 2011, AMA

Considering all the color revolutions my last blue point was after Codeforces Beta Round 62

• 11 hours ago, # ^ | yes both online and offline. And online even more: during contest hard to skip task and concentrate on others if I haven't passed it but if I have then it's really inspires definitely no, I am too dumb in math I only started to do this. Even my template is still outdated. Mostly it is cppreference.

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    • 5 hours ago, # ^ | ← Rev. 2 →   0 during current -8 rating of your comment I must say that enjoyed this picture and I protest against that it must be downvoted

  • 24 minutes ago, # ^ | smax orz

• 10 hours ago, # ^ | I think expert in 2014 was at a lower rating than now

• 10 hours ago, # ^ | no, read blog, color situation for 2014: blog/entry/3064

• 10 hours ago, # ^ | Well biggest difference is if you get fst nowadays then author of the problem is **** but in past it is you **** There is more content about algorithms and this is cool, there are no feeling of stagnation, that all algorithms were already invented by Tarjan in the 80s, mindblowing ideas or algorithms still appear periodically. And I love and highly rate Educational Rounds — it is great contests. I remember first rounds their vibe doesn't changed at all.

• 8 hours ago, # ^ | its mental mostly. day before contest I had traumatic discussion there in cf.

• 8 hours ago, # ^ | Also: If you used a time machine, went to 2012 or something, and made all the GMs from that era give all of the recent contests, what would their average performance be? Same for vice versa, i.e how would a today's GM do in the 2012-2015 meta?

  • 8 hours ago, # ^ | what are question... well I think pasties would have difficulties at first, but eventually they are settled in high-orange .. red complexity changed during decade. past div1 is currently div2 at most

    • 7 hours ago, # ^ | So today's GM absolutely wrecks a 2014 div1?

      • 7 hours ago, # ^ | ← Rev. 2 →   0 judging by my tasks from div1 contest I had prepared almost 10 years ago, yes

• 5 hours ago, # ^ | Firstly, I have no reasons to break this. In my age people usually have such reasons, but I don’t. Secondly I doing trainings, lectures, problems, organising for local contests and people from my city. Often I get paid for it xD. And to keep self in good form for these activities I need to practice. I never had feeling of wasting time. On the contrary, I had many periods of inactivity and eventually regret about it.