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Meeting Summary – 4/30/12
by Jack Li on May 1, 2012
In today’s meeting, we had a guest presentation by Steven Hao, who presented various computational geometry techniques useful in computer science, whether it be on USACO problems or elsewhere. As a reminder from last week, officer applications can be found (…)
Meeting Summary – 4/23/12
by MG Chi on April 23, 2012
In today’s meeting, we went over the last PotW and showed some excellent solutions that were submitted. We also reminded everyone to sign up for ProCo (it is temporarily full but they are trying to get more space). We then (…)
Meeting Summary – 4/2/12
by MG Chi on April 3, 2012
The meeting today covered various kinds of esoteric programming languages. An esoteric programming language (a.k.a. esolangs) is a programming language designed to experiment with weird ideas, to be hard to program in, or as a joke, rather than for practical (…)
Meeting Summary – 3/26/12
by MG Chi on March 26, 2012
Today we went over the solution to last week’s PotW, and MG gave a presentation on the perceptron, a linear classification algorithm. Using simple vector properties (esp. dot product), the perceptron is able to map a set of inputs to (…)
Meeting Summary – 3/19/12
by MG Chi on March 20, 2012
Good job everyone who participated in the Harker Programming Invitational! Lynbrook teams claimed first and second place ☺ If you missed HPI or want more programming fun, there is still Stanford ProCo on May 26th (details TBA). Today we talked about (…)
Meeting Summary – 3/12/12
by MG Chi on March 12, 2012
Today we went over solutions to one bronze, one silver, and one gold division problem from the March USACO. Note that there is only one round of USACO left for the season. Since the US Open will be the last (…)
Meeting Summary – 3/5/12
by MG Chi on March 6, 2012
Today’s meeting was pretty random. We randomly went over the solution to last week’s PotW and randomly talked about random things. ☺ Meeting slides can be found here and the new PotW is as follows: Returning from your most recent (…)
Meeting Summary – 2/27/12
by MG Chi on February 27, 2012
A Lynbrook team placed first at the Gunn Programming Contest. Congratulations to Steven Hao, Tony Jiang, and Qingqi Zeng! Today we went over solutions to one bronze, one silver, and one gold division problem from the last USACO. We also (…)
Meeting Summary – 2/13/12
by MG Chi on February 13, 2012
Announcement: Gunn Programming Contest Sign up at bit.ly/gunnproco12 February 25th, 9am – 3pm Harker Invitational Sign up at bit.ly/harkerproco12 March 17th, 8:30am – 3:30pm Our full solution to last week’s PotW can be found at http://ideone.com/iC4F6, and our meeting slides (…)
Meeting Summary – 2/6/12
by MG Chi on February 7, 2012
Announcement: Gunn Programming Contest is coming soon, so sign up now at bit.ly/gunnproco12! When: Feb. 25, 9AM – 3PM Teams of up to 3 2 hour round, 12 problems Will be worth PotW credit The meeting discussion was on data (…)