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By DecayingSylow, history, 4 months ago, In English

Today I opened Luogu for the first time.

  • On Luogu, if you practice with *3000 rated Codeforces problems, you are not an International Grandmaster, you are "NOI-" ("National Olympiad in Informatics minus"?). So the average Chinese IGM knows he is not so competitive at the national level (skill issue) and he must tryhard to reach "NOI", "NOI+" and "CTSC" level.
  • There are a lot of editorials written by contestants (about $$$10$$$ for each problem), which can be better than the official editorial. This holds for both easy and hard problems. Learning from Luogu editorials seems fun!
  • The community is not toxic at all! If the tests in a problem are weak, according to Luogu users the reason is not "the author is retarded", but "the author is still too young" (i.e., $$$11$$$ years old).

If you wish to become LGM, of course the first step is creating an account on Luogu.

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By DecayingSylow, history, 6 months ago, In English
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By DecayingSylow, history, 10 months ago, In English

AtCoder be like:

  • AtNewton's Law: $$$\text{sgn}(F) = mv$$$
  • AtCoulomb's Law: $$$\vec{F} = Kq_1q_2\hat{r}$$$

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