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Expert for the first time since 2011, AMA
By oversolver, 11 months ago, In English

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

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  • Do you still feel excited after getting "Accepted" on codeforces, compared to when you started? I'm kinda in the same situation, I've been doing cf a while, and I don't feel so much excitement anymore.
  • Do you think you can reach GM again, if you grind hard?
  • Where do you recommend learning c++20 concepts?
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    • 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 Even my template is still outdated.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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top 3 libraries?

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You were expert last time in 2014. xD

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As u are using Codeforces for a very long time, so u must have seen its evolve around the years. How much Codeforces Community, Problems, Blogs and other stuffs has changed over the years? Do u see all this changes happen in positive or negative way?

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    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.

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What is the reason that the last contest was so bad for you? Internet problems? Tired? Real life problems?

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    its mental mostly. day before contest I had traumatic discussion there in cf.

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What's the extent of difference in tasks now, vs like, 3 years ago or 5 years ago or 7 years ago? Can you describe qualitatively what the changes have been over the years?

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    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?

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      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

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        So today's GM absolutely wrecks a 2014 div1?

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          judging by my tasks from div1 contest I had prepared almost 10 years ago, yes

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i don't know if i am formelting the right questions but since you are a long term participate on codeforces what really motivates you to keep going? didn't you feel that you are wasting your time at some point? how did you overcome this feeling?

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    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.

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Did you perform not so well in your last contest on purpose?

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