[HN Gopher] 2024 MIT Integration Bee - Finals [video]
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       2024 MIT Integration Bee - Finals [video]
        
       Author : bschne
       Score  : 42 points
       Date   : 2024-02-28 17:56 UTC (5 hours ago)
        
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       | obiefernandez wrote:
       | What am I watching here?
        
         | melling wrote:
         | I assume this:
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         | https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integration_Bee
        
         | seanhunter wrote:
         | A competition where people try to solve annoyingly tricky
         | calculus problems.
        
         | karmakaze wrote:
         | Like a spelling bee, but for indefinite _(and definite?)_
         | integrals.
        
           | mlyle wrote:
           | There's definitely some definite integrals in the problem
           | set.
        
             | pfdietz wrote:
             | Time to differentiate under the integral sign!
        
         | atlex2 wrote:
         | Brian is named the grand integrator of 2024, probably one of
         | the fastest on the planet.
        
       | Jun8 wrote:
       | Watching this was awesome! I'd love to watch similar competitions
       | where students (undergrad/grad) attempt to solve hard problems
       | under insane time pressure, e.g. for Physics some more
       | straightforward ones from Landau's Theoretical Minimum:
       | https://www.physicsforums.com/threads/problems-from-lev-land....
       | Seeing the thought process, the red herring paths taken, etc.
       | would be a good learning experience (and a lot of fun).
       | 
       | Rather than blackboards they should have had electronic boards so
       | we can see better their scribbles.
        
       | jamestimmins wrote:
       | Before clicking, assumed "integration" referred to integrating
       | software with third party tools.
       | 
       | Which sounds hellish to compete in, but I'd be fascinated to
       | watch.
        
         | bschne wrote:
         | Oh god, for some reason my brain just jumped to "International
         | Parsing of Badly Documented and Absolutely Cursed Legacy File
         | Formats Olympiad"
        
           | dekhn wrote:
           | that's also held every year at MIT, shortly after the Ignobel
           | Prizes. Sometimes people are awarded prizes for the same work
           | in both competitions.
        
         | dheera wrote:
         | Or even just an "installation bee".
         | 
         | Both players are given a vanilla Ubuntu system with a GPU and
         | asked to get a certain outdated software package with multiple
         | non-apt-gettable dependencies working on the system.
         | 
         | Forbidden to use docker or conda.
         | 
         | The final round will be similar except it will be a Jetson
         | device running an outdated ARM version of Ubuntu.
        
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