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0 pointskuboble3y ago0 comments

Because people like competing. Because people like solving problems.

There is often beauty in good competition problems. And you can even learn something along the way.

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Sure but regular kaggle competitions have all those qualities, usually with a $50K+ prize to boot.

Google seems to have skipped out on the prize and substituted branding

I think there is a difference between the pro-like competitions with high emphasis on the top competitors where high prizes make sense to attract and reward the best.

At the same time at least Google Code Jam which I participated in, is an event for the masses where while there are winners in the end the focus is on great experience of thousands students and recreationals who participate.

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