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That is quite an achievement. Can you comment on your background ? type of education, work.

• NabiNaga 9y ago
  I was finishing up the second year of a computer engineering degree when I discovered Project Euler, and after a few months of solving the problems I realized I wanted to study math instead, so I switched my major to applied math. Honestly I learned more from solving PE problems than school. Now I'm working in industry on AI.
  • telchar 9y ago
    That's encouraging to hear. I'm 30 problems in so far since starting ~1.5 months ago. I starting working through the PE problems to develop my python and general programming skills since I have been primarily using R as a data scientist. I'm glad someone else has found it useful for this field.
    • NabiNaga 9y ago
      My routine was to solve the problem, then spend time reading through the solutions in the forum to see how I could optimize my code. Many times this meant completely rewriting my solution. For a lot of problems I spent more time making my code run as fast as possible than I did solving the problem in the first place. Doing this was critical for learning algorithms and techniques that I needed to solve future problems.