Programming contest report

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ICFP 2023 programming contest optimizes musician placement on a rectangular stage with blocking by other musicians and pillars, attendees (500–3,000) having per-instrument tastes that can be negative, and scoring using 1/d^2 sound decay and expensive floating-point checks. Organizers auto-generate 91 problems; 163 teams enter and 158 score, infrastructure needs a mid-contest server upgrade. Top solutions converge on simulated annealing with moves like swaps and long jumps; many top entries use C++ and Rust; lightning winner is all your son belong to us.

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1. 0:00Introduction
2. 1:02Music optimization problem
3. 4:12Problem extensions
4. 5:37Contest statistics
5. 7:02Scoring challenges
6. 9:10Top solutions and annealing
7. 9:31Fun moments
8. 11:19Lightning round winners
9. 12:22Conclusion
10. 13:28Question and answer session