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World-Changing Codeforcers? Wanted!
By MikeMirzayanov, 4 hours ago, In English

Hi!

Today I was shown a tweet https://x.com/deedydas/status/1818477947277525242

I'll quote the text here:

International Olympiad winners often go on to start world-changing things. OpenAI, Two Sigma, Telegram, Databricks, Perplexity, Devin, Ethereum, Udemy and even Python! You'll recognize some heavy hitters on the list. Nikolai Durov may be the most decorated of then all.

And there's also an interesting table there (I see Codeforcers there!):

click to view the table

Codeforces will soon turn 15 years old. Maybe this is an occasion to try to compile such a list? Suggest candidates in the comments! Please include at least three fields about the person: Handle, Name, and Career.

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scott_wu from Cognition. (It's not a world-changing thing, but at least it's a thing)

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MikeMirzayanov, I think he founded a popular competitive programming site or something like that

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    That moment when you suddenly want to implement reactions to comments.

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    no rating appears on his handle he must be new to cf

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ACRush, Tiancheng Lou, co-founder&CEO at Pony.ai

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speaking of 15th year , will there be a anniversary badge ?

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But where's the GOAT tourist ?

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    Honestly, was wondering that to be the first comment :)

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I dont see codeforces in the image, Is codeforces present there with some other nickname that i dont know of?

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rpeng, Richard Peng, Researcher

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MikeMirzayanov Can you please also address the rampant cheating that's been going on lately? There have been so many blogposts outlining solutions, and there are whole communities of people willing to do moderation work for free.

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Mike orz, cheating not

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s-quark Qinshi Wang, Researcher.

Discovered (Popularized) the usage of Lagrangian Relaxation in CP, now known by the infamous task "Aliens" from IOI 2016.

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meret Jakub Pachocki Co-Founder and Chief Scientist of OpenAI

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dojiboy9 Deon Nicholas Forethought's CEO

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It is quite funny to see that the former CEO of Alameda Research is on that table. I guess committing massive fraud is an achievement as well. Though probably the table was made before.

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