Competitive Programming
topic on 2 shows · 2 statements across 2 episodes
2 statements about Competitive Programming, every show
Tworek: OpenAI's competitive programming performance was a research byproduct
“I think we used like specifically programming puzzles for a while as a, Very nice research test bed of our ideas. Those are nice problems to experiment on them, and they weren't ever, like, considered part of the product, but it's, those are pretty, like, comp…”
Albrecht: Optimizing for competitive coding benchmarks does not create useful programmers
“Like, we do a lot of code generation, but we don't really do a lot on, like, code competition problems for the very, very hard ones, so that you can go very far down that route and make something like really good at those problems, but not actually that useful…”