tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4725006152290977601.post7414543272295098826..comments2024-03-21T06:13:52.539-04:00Comments on Luis von Blog: America's Next Top NerdLuis von Ahnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03028143830490915261noreply@blogger.comBlogger44125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4725006152290977601.post-62829192542100418712010-07-20T03:03:27.686-04:002010-07-20T03:03:27.686-04:00Great! It is cool to see this. I learned something...Great! It is cool to see this. I learned something newformolinehttp://www.formoline.netnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4725006152290977601.post-89708058388211888782010-07-20T03:02:07.917-04:002010-07-20T03:02:07.917-04:00The post which you have did that is amazing and al...The post which you have did that is amazing and also the knowledge you have shared here it helps me to increasing mine.Thanks for the informative blog.boilxhttp://www.boilxboilsrelief.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4725006152290977601.post-36885533764237973402010-07-12T20:08:07.589-04:002010-07-12T20:08:07.589-04:00Advertising giant GoGoo wishes to deliver premium ...Advertising giant GoGoo wishes to deliver premium web content to the people of Inecha! But the Inecha government takes exception to this and wishes to shut them down. <br /><br />Each turn: GoGoo employees select from a number of underground servers, with set carrying capacities proportional to their cost. Inecha officials get to chose which server to shut down, with a cost proportional to the carrying capacity of the pipes.<br /><br />Somehow then, the concept of maximum flow = minimum cut is aptly demonstrated.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4725006152290977601.post-10160422545933086372010-07-04T06:20:26.739-04:002010-07-04T06:20:26.739-04:00Great! Do it! I like several of the ideas mentione...Great! Do it! I like several of the ideas mentioned here (e.g. visualizations, ...). What about taking also some inspirations from shows that have use 'algorithms' as an ingredient, like numb3rs? Build up a fake scenario, deliver new information over the progress of some days (hours?), have several possible 'solutions' at the core of the scenario. Additionally, force the participants to work sometimes on problems in groups of 3 or 4, or build teams after the initial one-person qualifying rounds.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4725006152290977601.post-73200023439714114972010-06-29T09:57:02.583-04:002010-06-29T09:57:02.583-04:00this is the kind of TV "programming" I w...this is the kind of TV "programming" I would watch! great ideas, discussion.CMU School of Designhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12760591753035184589noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4725006152290977601.post-26604435453216275782010-06-15T22:44:52.359-04:002010-06-15T22:44:52.359-04:00Luis - I got you beat by a long shot here!
http:...Luis - I got you beat by a long shot here! <br /><br />http://matt-welsh.blogspot.com/2009/03/top-prof.htmlMatt Welshhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04255792550910131960noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4725006152290977601.post-924807102633190602010-06-13T03:53:17.135-04:002010-06-13T03:53:17.135-04:00The problem here is how will you explain any of th...The problem here is how will you explain any of the solutions to the general public who may not have a mathematics/engineering background(unless the solution is trivial).<br />Such a show will only work when there is sufficient awareness of the act being performed in the general population and when they can themselves attempt/try the act even if they fail. The act should be well known and understood. Only thing that the participants should bring in this format is the delivery/execution which an average guy at home can not achieve.<br />In that sense maybe UI design is an option, or any of the known solved problems with only execution as a criteria in stipulated time.<br />Hacking a known real organization could be an option, but that would be a different format for the show.chinmaynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4725006152290977601.post-9301609480725877952010-06-12T22:02:02.192-04:002010-06-12T22:02:02.192-04:00Luis, can you write some scandalous new post? i...Luis, can you write some scandalous new post? i'm bored, so are most people here..Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4725006152290977601.post-31459920747980556682010-06-11T14:28:45.564-04:002010-06-11T14:28:45.564-04:00^
| it is funnier than a japanese game show to ...^ <br />| it is funnier than a japanese game show to call yourself "dandelion" :DAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4725006152290977601.post-23300181032967280272010-06-10T19:48:16.698-04:002010-06-10T19:48:16.698-04:00someone should do a hybrid show between the americ...someone should do a hybrid show between the american reality competitions and those funny japanese game shows, but with nerds and dorks who try to win some type of game or award in various kinds of embarrassing/humorous situations (à la "revenge of the nerds").Dandelionnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4725006152290977601.post-24837631348440093572010-06-10T13:23:10.251-04:002010-06-10T13:23:10.251-04:00"maybe it can be something like becoming Face..."maybe it can be something like becoming Facebook friends with a girl"<br />A girl?? really? Damn, I wish we had some of those in CS - it's a shame no one participating in your show could possibly be one. -_-<br /><br />wrt Show ideas:<br />A puzzle hunt could be a good arc for a show: it has the time-press element, and lots of physical running around that's good for cinematography. It could involve a set of smaller problems so we could optimize for the best show-producing ones without upsetting the main 'plot' and have a diverse set of highly-visual and code-intense. I agree with the acting out 'interview questions' and I think a good coding montage could be great. Also writing some sort of graphics / UI code could be good for incorporating visual elements.<br /><br />The real problem you're going to run into is the vernacular. Any problem that's going to be interesting is going to cause a lot of screaming "it's DP!" "Floyd-Warshall/ Convex Hull / etc!" and the audience will have no idea what that means.<br />I guess we involve a non-technical person in some active role on each team which might cause explaining but just as likely "okay, now go right. now left." <br /><br />On the other hand a lot of algorithms have great stories to go along (bunny rabbits, marriages, pancakes...) that could be visually interesting. If that were incorporated there would be a good excuse for the host to explain the algorithm to the audience.imayerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03585466738178683845noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4725006152290977601.post-995588021895218062010-06-10T12:42:14.510-04:002010-06-10T12:42:14.510-04:00Ideally it would be good to find challenges that a...Ideally it would be good to find challenges that are socially relevant--we have to fight a lot of stereotypes that computer science is just writing code, when computer science is really about using computational thinking to make the world a better place.<br /><br />What I would love to see would be a really diverse set of contestants -- get out to the Grace Hopper and Richard Tapia conferences and recruit people from there. <br /><br />Then you're starting to show your audience not only why computer science matters but also how anyone can become a computer scientist.K. Stubbshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11557813200558179488noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4725006152290977601.post-15356905330284186392010-06-10T11:14:42.701-04:002010-06-10T11:14:42.701-04:00Please don't go beauty and the geek on this! I...Please don't go beauty and the geek on this! I vote against dating / romance as the prize...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4725006152290977601.post-34607726863612448232010-06-10T10:51:35.591-04:002010-06-10T10:51:35.591-04:00A couple of ideas...
1. Build a cool visualizatio...A couple of ideas...<br /><br />1. Build a cool visualization of social graphs (obvious opportunity Facebook sponsorship, something regular people might care about, and something obviously visual).<br /><br />2. Take something slow and make it fast. The sorting example could be a foundation here. But I'd put it in an application context, so that it's more relevant to a general audience. E.g., maybe a photo viewer dealing with a large number of images... The original version uses bubblesort, and the contestants make it better. Or maybe it does something simplistic w.r.t disk access. My goal with this wouldn't be to have the audience grok computational complexity. It would just be to get them to see that there are deep things in CS _that actually affect them_.<br /><br />Not sure that either of these fit within the timescale of a 30 minute TV show, though.mukeshhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01839422252855694448noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4725006152290977601.post-82394649853013814972010-06-10T10:45:39.141-04:002010-06-10T10:45:39.141-04:00Speed solving towers of hanoi. It could be just l...Speed solving towers of hanoi. It could be just like competitive cup stacking.Brendannoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4725006152290977601.post-74128659813740311662010-06-10T09:18:55.350-04:002010-06-10T09:18:55.350-04:00@jyby: the ACM programming contest has bad problem...@jyby: the ACM programming contest has bad problems for this -- they're not made with TV in mind.Luis von Ahnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03028143830490915261noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4725006152290977601.post-18919792227918521312010-06-10T09:18:03.673-04:002010-06-10T09:18:03.673-04:00You're awesome Jason :)You're awesome Jason :)Luis von Ahnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03028143830490915261noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4725006152290977601.post-78805011255031026252010-06-10T09:11:17.582-04:002010-06-10T09:11:17.582-04:00Luis: would it be very different from the ACM prog...Luis: would it be very different from the ACM programming contests?dothttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14825435867493579983noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4725006152290977601.post-18036006124552343172010-06-10T09:03:34.590-04:002010-06-10T09:03:34.590-04:00Being that I was your NOVA producer, I want in on ...Being that I was your NOVA producer, I want in on this!Jasonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06455738592625269356noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4725006152290977601.post-18855869077323547442010-06-10T08:54:11.378-04:002010-06-10T08:54:11.378-04:00lol it should just be like...True Life: I'm m...lol it should just be like...True Life: I'm majoring in cs at CMU. The prize is employment upon graduation, lol. You can show entertaining visuals of all nighters and bug fixing and drinking soda and arguing about video games. It'll be awesome. And by awesome I mean....haha idk. :/ I guess what I'm saying is you could have a legit show with real and challenging problems, but not make the problems the appeal of the show. It can be traditional reality tv!! Woohoo! :DCristinahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01789534202837617537noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4725006152290977601.post-88872166826402252142010-06-10T07:42:11.735-04:002010-06-10T07:42:11.735-04:00There is this show: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T...There is this show: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Code_Room But it seems pretty bad...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4725006152290977601.post-85167059342127630722010-06-10T07:35:08.709-04:002010-06-10T07:35:08.709-04:00as for public audience (not on pbs), nerds-got-tal...as for public audience (not on pbs), nerds-got-talent might be a bit more entertaining...Dandelionnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4725006152290977601.post-85444096382289577292010-06-10T07:33:27.748-04:002010-06-10T07:33:27.748-04:00Many of these are great!
Btw, if the reward is e...Many of these are great! <br /><br />Btw, if the reward is employment at a certain company (e.g., Google or Facebook), that company can sponsor the show.Luis von Ahnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03028143830490915261noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4725006152290977601.post-28756782723669157502010-06-10T03:47:56.383-04:002010-06-10T03:47:56.383-04:00bar a certain masochist... :)bar a certain masochist... :)Harshithttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12403404877354245416noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4725006152290977601.post-47987943859274504962010-06-10T03:45:25.673-04:002010-06-10T03:45:25.673-04:00This comment has been removed by the author.Harshithttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12403404877354245416noreply@blogger.com