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How are they faster? I don’t think any ELO report actually comes from participating at a live coding contest on previously unseen problems.


My background is more on math competitions, but all of those things are essentially speed contests. The skill comes from solving hard problems within a strict time limit. If you gave people twice the time, they'd do better, but time is never going to be an issue for a computer.

Comparing raw Elo ratings isn't very indicative IMHO, but I do find it plausible that in closed, game-like environments models could indeed achieve the superhuman performance the Elo comparison implies, see my other comment in this thread.




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