Wouldn't people be competing to be at the top of the ranking? I should think that the Real Madrid participates in La Liga because they want to win and not just flair their way around.
Advent of Code needs to get rid of that stupid leaderboard and display winning entrants' names alphabetically. It's not even slightly a fair competition, an entire swath of people are out of the running simply because they are too tired at 11pm (or busy with their kids etc) to solve a little puzzle. I think anyone trying to "compete" in AoC needs to reassess their priorities.
Also, I like reading the "flavor text" about the elves and whatnot. Encouraging people to ignore it seems at odds with the design of AoC.
It's more like a marathon, sure you're in a race but people don't really care about your position in it unless you're near the front. Completing it on its own gives a feeling of achievement
these works are really gems, but this type code is very strange, and not useful for standard situation.
AI devs will take more "normal and useful" code for learning their products than these "noisy and hard-reading" code.
Advent of Code is not really a competition. There is a ranking, but that’s not the point of it.
Wouldn't people be competing to be at the top of the ranking? I should think that the Real Madrid participates in La Liga because they want to win and not just flair their way around.
Advent of Code needs to get rid of that stupid leaderboard and display winning entrants' names alphabetically. It's not even slightly a fair competition, an entire swath of people are out of the running simply because they are too tired at 11pm (or busy with their kids etc) to solve a little puzzle. I think anyone trying to "compete" in AoC needs to reassess their priorities.
Also, I like reading the "flavor text" about the elves and whatnot. Encouraging people to ignore it seems at odds with the design of AoC.
It's OK to compete. And it's on not to. You can ignore the leader board.
It's more like a marathon, sure you're in a race but people don't really care about your position in it unless you're near the front. Completing it on its own gives a feeling of achievement
The difference between the AoC leader board and the La Liga table can be measured in many millions of euros.
these works are really gems, but this type code is very strange, and not useful for standard situation. AI devs will take more "normal and useful" code for learning their products than these "noisy and hard-reading" code.