Did lots of interesting data analysis and implement the strategy based on those, feel like I learn a lot in the process, and I put those knowledge I learnt in different courses into the real situation, it is a nice experience.

Some fun things, I use some algo to detect some accs from other teams, and find some of those teams are using the loopholes, by their account activity, so I ask the official discord, is it legit to use those? We get a yes, and therefore I consider it as a rule, so we use it, and counter the team that, use the loopholes before, and our score comes to the 1st place.

But turns out we can’t use it, at the end… So they reduce all the scores from the loopholes… I remember I ask them before, right… But they do the same to the team I found before as well, so it is fair? Maybe.

But anyway we end up in top 3 out of 168 teams, in Australia. Well it is not bad, since we get 1500 dollar at least XD

It is actually a good way to learn, learn the knowledge by building the project, and it is kinda addictive.

After using hella of AI, I found that, nowadays, it is probably not that necessary to, know the very details about some knowledge? Like the syntax of the programming language, since AI usually can handle it well, but we still need to understand what’s going in the code, like, theoritically, cuz otherwise AI will end it up with a massive spaghetti. Not sure they will be smarter in the future though.

Also find that, I’m quite interested to this kind of games? Something involves, strategy and quantifiable result, cuz for those 2 weeks I’ve been, addictive to the competition, basically just coding from day to night, with like 4 hr sleeping everyday XD.

BTW it is my 1st time to appear in ABC news XD

1. knowledge, easy to understand, the knowledge itself, and the way of using different kind of knowledge.
2. socialization, something provided by uni but probably not that obivious, it is something like networking
3. a reference of the position in the people in similar ages, or, a proof of personal abilities, in general, people set up a aim for student to achieve, and if students achieve it, they are considered as capable, some common aims includes, good grades, good university, or, some goals that, is efficient to distinguish between different kinds of students. obiviously it is efficient, but I don’t think it is correct, because some special cases happen, since those goal are effect by lots of factor, for eg, the family income, learning environment and etc, that is, unrelated to abilities.
4. a pass for the job, using those reference, from 3rd point, filter out those student that, can’t achieve those goals, so it is much more efficient to pick up the right students.

But is the uni the only source of those values?

In terms of knowledge, I personally, feels like, those open source courses in MIT are much better than most of uni, in terms of both teaching and problem qualities.

in terms of socialization, it is easy to get replaced by learning groups online as well, and since it is online, it will probably be much easier to find someone to study together with?

in terms of, a reference of the position, or proof of personal abilities, shouldn’t it be more efficient to use something that is open to do it? For eg, codeforces / kaggle, obivious not the uni exam because no one know how hard it is, if the goal is to filter the people, why not make the rules public? In terms of feedback stuff, I think AI can actually play a good roles.

It won’t change in few years, but it is probably just a matter of time, like for now I can’t really find something that is special and important values from uni only, then why am i bothering, paying the huge amount of money for it…