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Merry Christmas and new year's resolutions
Mon, 12/24/2007 - 17:48 | by Mgccl
Christmas is coming. Finally the kawaii1 onion smile got an update after dormant for 2 months. Last few days is just before the Christmas break, tests springs like fungus... also I have to do stand up comedy in front of 1000 people, so I don't have chance to post and finish one of my GHOP task.
Hope everyone have a merry Christmas. I will be doing an amazing amount of SAT test prep during my break.
Taking about new year's resolutions...
looking back to my list I made back in summer. I have dropped some of those because I over estimated how much stuff I can do in certain amount of time... The new list will be:
My Top 10 resolutions:
1. Spend More Time with Family & Friends Create a database of math problems (Include all high school and above math problems, and lower level problems with significance will be featured in the database, like 1+1). People can leave comments, so there would be a strong problem solution community. Will be built with Drupal 6 and features an API for both input and output. Require the integration of LaTeX(DruTeX), Asymptote and Drupal 62.
2. Do my best in contests I'm participating(GHOP, Suffolk County Math Tournament, USAMTS, M3Challenge)
3. Use spare time to program a LF2 like game. (I have assembled a small team... start working at June 2008). My C++ skill is enough to do basics. Integrate other people's library into my program in C++ is 1000 times harder than in PHP. Ahhh, compile errors of those libraries forces me to abandon the SDL solution and chose directx solution until I can finally get my own computer (oh yeah... Linux will make my life a LOT easier...).
4. Do amazing on the SAT(I hate learning vocabularies), APs(I have 6 AP test this year 
) and study for the GRE Mathematics Subject test if I fail at getting into USAMO and IOI.[Requires completion of 6]
5. Get accepted in a great college(MIT, Princeton) [Requires completion of 4]
6. Stay away from relationships [Requires math, coding, a blog and start playing warhammer]
7. On a average week, the arithmetic mean, mode and median of sleeping hours for each day should be 8±0.5. (currently, it's 8,6,6 respectively)[Requires completion of 4]
8. A(dozen) math problem a day
9. Working toward getting into USAMO then IMO after finish the SATs [Requires 4 and 8]
10. Working toward getting into IOI, and hopefully doing good on it [Requires completion of 4]
My parents puts no.4 as the most important task in my life. Really, I stop having discourse with my parents because no dialog can last longer than 5 clause without diffuse the theme to the SATs.(I can feel the osmotic pressure...)
"How is your stand up act?"
"Pretty nice, I guess people liked it, I could do better though, but there are..."
"Great, now you have done your 'important stuff', how about doing some SATs. You only got 58 for the critical reading part in your PSATs, and MIT's middle 25%-75% have a 660 for the SAT reading. You are so far away from our expectations and that's such a disgrace to our ancestors. You know how important SAT is right? then why don't you..."
"Ok, this is the (n+1)th time you are telling me the same thing, amazingly, it's has (n+1) different combination of words and sentence structures, how about I just record your sound and write a program that automatically use your voice read essays with the exact same idea and tecno mix them into songs so it can be played where ever I go. You can even upgrade it so it talk in Chinese."
I'm so glad my family never learned the discipline technique called "you are grounded". well actually, I won't care. I don't go to anywhere after I come back from school. Nothing can hurt me, nothing! 
After May(which is after the SAT and APs), I can use all my time on all tasks :), Now, I can only do them in my spare time.
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- 2. It's extremely simple...if I have root account for a Linux server.
Memory Usage 9.34854888916MB. Time Usage 0.430541038513s
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IMO - IOI
What are you chances of actually making them? Have you made AIME/AMC before? Seriously though, part one will be an awesome project! Btw, the CAPTCHA question just given was 1+0!!!
not high... that's why I'm
not high... that's why I'm doing the SAT first... after that... I would then "screw my school work" so I can have around 6 hours of free time each day... 6 hours working on anything means amazing result...
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especially during this summer, I'm likely to go back to China, then I can take some kind of math Olympic class(in China, everything is much cheaper
I might not make into the IMO, but I can wish at least I can get into USAMO. This is my last chance T.T sometimes I wish I knew there are contests like this a long time ago. if I like math at the age of 4...
life comes at me fast...
MathLinks
Well, I'd just spend slightly more time on MathLinks to assess what you think your chances are like. There are some fantastic mathematicians on there, who've been training for years who don't make it. Why would you be different?
I don't know... I trust
I don't know... I trust myself.. I have never failed on anything I say I can do...
I either knows I'm not able of doing something and stop
or I just do it until I success.
Yes, I doubt I can make into IMO, but I believe I can get into USAMO, because 500 people will be selected in the USA.
There are only 22000 people entered the AIME test 2006. The median never exceeded 3 out of possible 15 from 2003 to 2005. I'm going to do some AIME test today and see how good I can be. I believe if I work hard enough, I can be one of the top 500 in USA. I need to be like top 100 in the world to get into IMO. So basically, if I can get into USAMO, I will be thinking about should.
It's great I'm only a Junior now... I still have one more year to prepare...
IOI, in contrast are a lot easier than the IMO
First, it's not as well known as IMO
Second, only college teaches complicated computer science. Because it's opening to high schools, less people have the potential to join IOI than the IMO.
Third, sure, there are amazing hackers and programmers in high school, but how many of them are computer scientist and really took their time and learned about discreet math, algorithm, data structure and computational geometry? Some questions' solution can be found quite easily if you have previous experience, like this Twofives can be solved with help of Project Euler's problem 24. It seems there are less than 20000 people doing Project Euler. There are other programming challenge sites. Like 70371 users in UVa and don't know how much in TopCoder. But how much of them are actually doing really good? My rank in Project Euler show I'm in the top 10% of the coders, then around all of the coders in other sites, I suppose to be in the top 10%. Of those top 10%, how many people are in high school? I guess the difficulty of getting into IOI is around the difficulty of getting into USAMO.
Hackers
You think hackers don't know about control structures etc? I know people who have reverse engineered code you wouldn't dream of. They can code brilliantly and a quickly (and damn efficiently). They have quick minds, and most of their maths is fairly good too. Still, it is easier than the IMO, but project euler isn't everything, very few programmers I know go in there. The only one who I know who's been to an IOI completed the whole thing in two days and came top of the list (lucky when the newest one was released!)
I'm saying not all hackers
I'm saying not all hackers know computer science. Like a electrician might not understand the electromagnetism behind everything.
The tests is all about applying the computer science to the real world problem, I don't think there is so much computer scientist out there that make this competition more difficult than USAMO.
Electricians are nothing
Electricians are nothing like hackers. Hackers are people who break stuff down to see how it works. By definition they'll know most of the computer science.
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show me a hacker with computer science degree
http://www.paulgraham.com/college.html
hackers doesn't need advanced math.
btw I just did the AIME 2007 day one, cost me 2 hours, I got 1 out of 15 right. 3 silly mistakes cost me 3 points. I have to really work on preventing mistakes. So I'm below the average in all the people who took AIME. I'm quite happy as I at least know how to do 5 of the questions. Practice will make me perfect, I have a year of time. (12th grade USAMO April 2009)
AIME have a little inequality and combinatorics, that makes me really happy ;)
Ah... I take back what I
Ah... I take back what I said. I thought you only had 1 year. Aren't you older than me?
yes, I'm older than you...
yes, I'm older than you... but for many reasons... I'm only in 11th grade right now.
I travel between countries when I was young. I started school one year earlier than everyone else. But the traveling made me fall behind. In China, school year start at September, in Australia, it start at February. So, say I'm in the middle of 3rd grade in China(January), and I moved to Australia, I have to study from the beginning again, wasting 5 months. When I'm still studying 5th grade in September, I moved back to China, and I enroll in Chinese 5th grade, that's like study 5th grade all over again, and I would waste 8 more months of my life.
Also, because of moving around, I can't fulfill many requirements, I have to relearn Chinese and other classes I never took in Australia. once I move back to China, my mum chose to move me to a even lower grade than I am suppose to be.
After I come to US, I said I want to go to 10th grade. But my parents are the ones deciding. My mum puts me in 9th grade so I have more time to prepare for the SATs.
So now I'm the oldest person in my grade, it's embarrassing to tell people my age. and getting owned by people younger than me at AP chem...
Ah.. that makes more sense.
Ah.. that makes more sense. In that case I fully take back most of what I've said. I thought you had to go for it this year. In that case we're both working towards the same target at about the same rate :). I did that AMC (and beat you :P). Unfortunately, that is nothing like the British Olympiad equivalent, so I need to train for those style questions, longer. harder. fewer. Still...
Good luck on your training.
Good luck on your training. It's great there are so many resources out there for us to practice.
Yeah... good luck with
Yeah... good luck with yours. If you find any nice problems, send them my way. I chat to alot of people on MSN about Olympiad questions, I'm sure one more can only be a good thing
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