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Polish teenager world's best computer scientist
Radio Polonia ^ | 21.08.2006 | Iwona Lejman

Posted on 08/21/2006 2:53:46 PM PDT by lizol

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Filip Wolski

1 posted on 08/21/2006 2:53:47 PM PDT by lizol
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2 posted on 08/21/2006 2:54:47 PM PDT by lizol (Liberal - a man with his mind open ... at both ends)
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Filip Wolski

...already bought and paid for by Intel, I see.

3 posted on 08/21/2006 2:55:13 PM PDT by TChris (Banning DDT wasn't about birds. It was about power.)
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To: A. Pole

ping


4 posted on 08/21/2006 2:55:52 PM PDT by palmer (Money problems do not come from a lack of money, but from living an excessive, unrealistic lifestyle)
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To: lizol
What can he do in 50 microseconds? (Do computer scientists even know what a microsecond is?)

ML/NJ

5 posted on 08/21/2006 2:58:24 PM PDT by ml/nj
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To: lizol

How's that submarine screen door coming? Haven't heard anything on that for a while Mr. Smartypants.

God Bless the Poles.


6 posted on 08/21/2006 2:58:41 PM PDT by kinghorse (I calls them like I sees them)
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To: lizol
coding math is something for contract programmers ... not exactly what I would call the world's most difficult computer tasks ....

Want to impress the world? Take out the Internet, take out hardened government systems, take out CapitalOne's, BofA's or Citibanks computer systems.

7 posted on 08/21/2006 2:59:10 PM PDT by Centurion2000 (Islam is a subsingularity memetic perversion : (http://www.orionsarm.com/topics/perversities.html))
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To: lizol

I bet he knows Reverse Polish Notation.


8 posted on 08/21/2006 2:59:59 PM PDT by dfwgator
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A microsecond is a time unit on a microwave. Duh. /acting stupid


9 posted on 08/21/2006 3:01:43 PM PDT by hollywood (Stay on topic, please.)
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To: lizol
...people Polish the of fun make you dare How!
10 posted on 08/21/2006 3:03:23 PM PDT by mosquewatch.com (No Islam, Know Peace. www.mosquewatch.blogspot.com)
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I had an uncle who died smuggling vowels into Poland.

I feel a deep kinship with the Polish people.

11 posted on 08/21/2006 3:03:39 PM PDT by keithtoo (Israeli defense strategy "Cogito Ergo Boom!")
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To: hollywood

And a microwave is how one greets Algork.


12 posted on 08/21/2006 3:03:40 PM PDT by SAJ
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What can he do in 50 microseconds?

I went to the kitchen and got a beer and returned to my keyboard in that time...but of course today is the end of the world so I had to hurry!

13 posted on 08/21/2006 3:04:24 PM PDT by Dark Skies
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To: lizol

Bravo young man! Bravo!


14 posted on 08/21/2006 3:05:52 PM PDT by AmericaUnited
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To: TChris
Poles typically finish near the top in these contests.

Polish universities are among the top ten computer science schools with CalTech, MIT, Carnegie Mellon, etc.

Last years Top Coder was from Warsaw U.

15 posted on 08/21/2006 3:08:37 PM PDT by billorites (freepo ergo sum)
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To: Dark Skies

No, that's tomorrow, the twenty-second, according to that Iranian dude that See-BS was sucking up to the other week.


16 posted on 08/21/2006 3:10:17 PM PDT by Calvin Locke
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Apparently, the dumb white guys from Poland aren't as dumb as the bigoted PC crowd have led us to believe. Ever notice how it is still ok with hollywood and the PCers to make fun of white guys and blondes. Bigotry tied up with a PC bow is socially acceptable to the sniveling liberal crowd. Sheesh!!

This kid must be a genius. Poland has become the computer programming training ground for the world. Read an article not long ago about international companies seeking Polish educated students out for top jobs in the field.


17 posted on 08/21/2006 3:15:31 PM PDT by Neoliberalnot
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To: Calvin Locke

It turned August 22 in Iran around 4:30p EST today.


18 posted on 08/21/2006 3:17:56 PM PDT by Dark Skies
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To: Dark Skies

What! The center of the universe isn't set to EDT, no matter how hard Bill Gates tries?


19 posted on 08/21/2006 3:22:07 PM PDT by Calvin Locke
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To: Dark Skies
I went to the kitchen and got a beer and returned to my keyboard in that time

Cute. But ...

Many years ago I went for an interview. The guy asked me the usual stupid questions for a while, and then out of nowhere he asked me, "How long would it take to move 50 words from one location in memory to another?"

I replied that it sort of depended upon the machine, whereupon he asked me to pick a machine. This was back in the days of the HP-2100 so I picked that. Hmmm. Two microcseconds per instruction, four instructions in the loop, about 400 microseconds. The guy went on to his next question without even commenting.

"Wait," I stopped him. "Why did you ask me that?"

"You'd be surprised how many people come in here who have no idea about how long a computer takes to do something. They might think that a tenth of a second is fast, or they might think that processors can do anything in a half a microsecond."

Of course, I knew he was right. (I met the guy again about ten years later, and I reminded him about this.)

ML/NJ

20 posted on 08/21/2006 3:30:13 PM PDT by ml/nj
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