Ah, the mythical man-month. Or student-month, as the case may be.
You can't measure productivity in klocs, and you're also not taking into account the distribution of effort across those 350 contestants. Plenty of people sign up, poke around with the API for a bit, and submit a half-assed bot (or none at all)... but those who do well? They're spending quite a bit of time on this. I think it's safe to call them "hardcore."
You can't measure productivity in klocs, and you're also not taking into account the distribution of effort across those 350 contestants. Plenty of people sign up, poke around with the API for a bit, and submit a half-assed bot (or none at all)... but those who do well? They're spending quite a bit of time on this. I think it's safe to call them "hardcore."