Mgccl's Ivory Towerso tired

Today I stumble upon iTest website again, they have posted the results. Nice.
It's a major shock that 83 made my team into No. 16 overall and No.2 in NY.(If there is no more changes to the result due to some teams failed to submit their stuff correctly)
Wat...We are that good?
Sadly. Only top 10 in US get recognized and the first in each state get to be noticed.
If only I didn't just give up in the last hour and stop checking the answers. Since I had enough with 18 hour per day for 4 days and sleep deprived.
Yep. Since I wasn't in school I was working on it NON-STOP(except sleep)
I'm such a beast.

It gave me some hope and now I know where to place myself in the math community. I'm actually pretty good.

My video has won the iTest video contest in two categories in total of $450 cash prize!
My video can be seen here.
First time get such a huge amount of money from contests.

An instant message + email checking + social network status checking program Digsby was running on my computer and generated an shocking statistic.

Congratulations Digsby, you are the first program I know of that's not math/science/studio/benchmark related software to surpass the CPU/Memory usage of Firefox 3.0.1 running Gmail, Google reader and Google calendar.
How is your code constructed?

 main() {
        while(get_system_load()<1){
               generate_garbage();
               //code start
        }
 }

Non of my computers at home can handle it, so the developer must be running a 64 core 1024 bit 3.6 THz CPU with 32TB 1033GHz DDRe^π RAM.

iTest video contest has ended.
People's solutions are amazingly similar. Maybe because these are the standard way to answer?
For problem 21, I didn't even remember there was a British flag theorem and end up proving it myself. Those iTest people are really educated.
This fast talking guy is the only person posted an answer for problem #82.
Certainly. Use the number of possible edges minus edges contained in largest possible triangle-free graph. But proving the size of the largest triangle-free graphs is not easy to be done in 60 seconds.

Second math contest of this school year complete.

Totino's Pizza Taste Great.
I know what's my college food now.
I also heard Shin Ramyun is also food of choice for lazy college people who like Korean food.

Can't wait till college.
Currently I am restricted to consume product like that. Not because of financial issue, but family issue. I can't stand days of unrest arguments about "eat healthy, live healthy" for every 10.2 oz of pizza I consume.

I'm a simple person with simple desires. A job of $30K is enough. No med school, no law school and no actuarial science. I want to eat pizza everyday.
Yet, such a simple desire requires so much work, it's shocking how complex the human society has become.

I have made a solution video for iTest problem #88. Hopefully I get the $200. Maybe I can even win the 3 overall prize in total of $950. Extra point are offered for videos with reference for southern company.

There was no competition, I was the only one submitted the video and the only one who can win.
Now another team have posted a video.

It was by maree900...
Looks like have a bit more creative than mine
But I guess I'm better in solving the problem and presentation.
I hope I still have a chance. The contest ends in 11 hours the time this is posted.
I liked this one they made for problem #21... LOLed at random act of violence.

This is the best one so far in my opinion

well there is nothing to graph the 6th dimension, you can't steal my prize! Muhahahahaha
Check out the playlist I made for iTest for all videos.
Reality: I don't care about the prize at all, participation is the key.

Meh, we got 83. Most team on MathLinks has 90 or above.
Not a good start for the first decent size math contest this year.

The cumulative plot of number of wrong against problem number.

The parabola of best fit: y = 0.621651- 0.0902025 x + 0.00240685 x^2

At least we beat Syosset.
I should have joined team SWR with Syosset to form another team, then we might get something in the 90s.
My brain don't functions currently.

OMG $200 is gone.
Well at least I won an calculator (TI-Nspire) for doing Monday Math Madness.
Joining the iTest video contest. Thinking of ideas.
I'm glad, I have learned a lot and #88 was a great breakthrough for me. At first I thought there is no way to solve it with my current knowledge, I must have study higher dimension geometry first. Then I think about why did they provide a coordinate and realize it become a combinatorics problem(which I also suck at.)

#100 is impossible. That shows I have a lot more to learn.
Must do more problems!