[seqfan] Re: suggestion for a competition?

[Moshe Levin]

I for one, strongly prefer "improving the old" over "submitting the new" -
and not only to students ;)

ML

28 октября 2011, 01:21 от Charles Greathouse <charles.greathouse at case.edu>:
> > Most of the suggestions, other than "best new sequence", could be lumped
> > together under the heading "best modification of an existing sequence".
> 
> I think the advantage of splitting the others out is (1) to suggest
> concrete ways in which sequences can be improved and (2) to encourage
> improving sequences over submitting new ones.  New sequences are
> great, but making their addition one point of 10 rather than one point
> of 2 seems more apt, especially if we're dealing with high-school
> students.
> 
> The first point is especially important, I think -- most people, I
> suspect, would not think to contribute an illustration without it
> being suggested, and yet illustrations are extremely useful in many
> cases (and perhaps easier for high-school students than some other
> tasks that might be asked of them!).
> 
> > Would we have the new/modified sequences submitted in the usual way, or
> > would we want some special mechanism?
> 
> I think that modifications and submissions should be sent in normally
> but only those modifications that are specifically submitted would be
> judged.  Perhaps the mechanism for submitting entries could be as
> simple as a wiki page. (Of course I expect there would be a limit on
> the number of submissions a person could send -- we wouldn't want
> someone to send us all 50 sequences they edited during the period.)
> 
> Charles Greathouse
> Analyst/Programmer
> Case Western Reserve University
> 
> On Thu, Oct 27, 2011 at 5:09 PM,  <franktaw at netscape.net> wrote:
> > I would also be willing to judge.
> >
> > Most of the suggestions, other than "best new sequence", could be lumped
> > together under the heading "best modification of an existing sequence".
> >
> > Would we have the new/modified sequences submitted in the usual way, or
> > would we want some special mechanism? In the former case, it  may entail a
> > lot of work for the editors - hard to say how much, since it depends on how
> > wide an audience the article reaches. That doesn't necessarily mean we
> > shouldn't do it that way, but we need to be prepared.
> >
> > Franklin T. Adams-Watters
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Andrew Weimholt <andrew.weimholt at gmail.com>
> >
> > I wouldn't mind being on the panel of judges.
> >
> > Some other possible catagories...
> >
> > * Best proof of an open conjecture related to an OEIS seqeunce(s).
> >
> > * Best alternate definition of a sequence (with proof that the new
> > definition produces the same
> > sequence).
> >
> > * Best extension of a "more" + "hard" sequence.
> >
> > Andrew
> >
> >
> > On 10/27/11, N. J. A. Sloane <njas at research.att.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> Dear SeqFans,
> >> A science writer that I know is thinking of
> >> writing an article about the OEIS.
> >>
> >> She asked me if I could think of a competition
> >> for students. For example, there might be a prize for the
> >> best new sequence submitted by a student.
> >> (Student could mean high school student, or perhaps undergraduate)
> >>
> >> Or, the best formula for a sequence that did not already have
> >> a formula.
> >>
> >> Or, the best "illustration of initial terms" (the kind of picture
> >> we have in A000029) for a sequence that at present does not have
> >> any illustrations
> >>
> >> Can anyone suggest other competitions?
> >>
> >> And, if the article appears, we will need a panel
> >> of judges - any volunteers?
> >>
> >> Neil
> 
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