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Contrary to popular belief, programmers have a life, though mostly bound to their computers. One of the many incentives that make it so is programming competitions. Competitive programming is a ...

AlphaCode – a new Artificial Intelligence (AI) system for developing computer code developed by DeepMind – can achieve average human-level performance in solving programming contests, researchers ...

Some people enjoy solving problems, and then there are those who land top tech jobs by doing just that. Competitive programming (CP) is a sport for the mind, where coders have to solve problems with ...

Google’s DeepMind AI division has tackled everything from StarCraft to protein folding. So it’s probably no surprise that its creators have eventually turned to what is undoubtedly a personal interest ...