In the Olympics of Algorithms, a Russian Keeps Winning Gold

Re:In the Olympics of Algorithms, a Russian Keeps Winning Gold by khmel on Wednesday November 14, 2012 @04:13PM (#4785597)

Topcoder is famous for pure computer science competitions - probably, they just don't care about captcha ))

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Re:In the Olympics of Algorithms, a Russian Keeps Winning Gold by ropz on Wednesday November 14, 2012 @04:32PM (#4785679)

I meant ... that I just tried to join. Filled in the form and had to complete the Captcha. Got it right - I'm certain - 5 or 6 times - but it kept telling me that I failed the Capcha verification test.

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Re:In the Olympics of Algorithms, a Russian Keeps Winning Gold by evoxed on Wednesday November 14, 2012 @06:35PM (#4786206)

Maybe you're supposed to write an algorithm that predicts what the next captcha will be and use that. ;)

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Re:In the Olympics of Algorithms, a Russian Keeps Winning Gold by B-Con on Wednesday November 14, 2012 @05:16PM (#4785899)

Well, they don't want to allow just any human in.

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Re:In the Olympics of Algorithms, a Russian Keeps Winning Gold by khmel on Wednesday November 14, 2012 @04:40PM (#4785730)

you should report a bug to them!

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