Useful reminder to sort out my AoC++ donation for this year. Done.
Being in the UK I've never bothered attempting to target the global leader-board as 5am is just too early.
According to my research I probably could scrape in here or there (looking at the time between the timestamp on my input file - which I download by running a script manually - and my solution times) but then I assume I'd be one of thousands who could also do the same but are hampered by timezones.
I think the "Please don't" wording of the policy is pretty much all that Eric can do.
People will always try and game the system, but I doubt they can consistently game it for the number of days required to appear on the final leaderboard. I think the problems will just be too big/varied for LLMs to consistently solve.
Being in the UK I've never bothered attempting to target the global leader-board as 5am is just too early.
According to my research I probably could scrape in here or there (looking at the time between the timestamp on my input file - which I download by running a script manually - and my solution times) but then I assume I'd be one of thousands who could also do the same but are hampered by timezones.
I think the "Please don't" wording of the policy is pretty much all that Eric can do.
People will always try and game the system, but I doubt they can consistently game it for the number of days required to appear on the final leaderboard. I think the problems will just be too big/varied for LLMs to consistently solve.