(Like I'm not going to make you learn how to write M scripts or code tools in ocaml (/python/R), but I want you to have an idea of what's happening and how to extract useful information from collected data.)

Like, *job security* and all, but I don't like being the only one on my team who can understand basic parsing and data processing pipelines.

Takes me back to my math tutoring days where you struggle with convincing people that math isn't scary — it's not something for only a select few.

Yeah, I get it — I'm trying to force myself to read more too.

Let me tell you, when you start guessing meanings and readings correctly for kanji you've never seen before with radicals, that definitely hits.

(Some people did 4D transforms apparently but I couldn't wrap my head around that.)

I was too slow! I got 4608th place in 2019 and 4609th place in 2018! Yesterday I would have gotten 4607th!
(My record is 3012 in 2024, so it's fine.)

Named tuples and the new Pqueue libraries were nice.

Had to get idea help on 23b because I was having trouble subdividing an octahedron... but someone pointed out online that you don't have to break it into exact pieces, just smaller pieces that completely overlap the original and that was key to the solution.