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By Zuckerberg. The selection seems decent. And natural sciences only, which is good. A bit more application oriented than the Nobel Prize it seems, e.g. 2022 separates physics and fundamental physics.
Appears to explain award reasoning even worse than the Nobel Foundation.
royalsociety.org/grants-schemes-awards/awards/copley-medal/ says it is now open to international citizens, but having a quick look at the 2010 awards still suggests that it is very British centric, or at least anglophone centric, much like the society fellowship itself. That's likely the reason why the Nobel prize won, being much more international from the start.
That 15,000 canadian dollar prize though, what a joke! That's what you get when an impoverished scientist, and not a rich industrialist, creates a prize!

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More like a "lifetime achievement" though, rather than the Nobel Prize, which tends to be for more specific achievements.
The most triggering thing possible is when programming competitions don't release their benchmarks as open source software afterwards: at least like that they might help someone to solve their real world problems. Maybe.
Some irrelevant people highlight that knowledge Olympiads can have good effects, because they are "an opportunity to meet university teachers and their research organizations". Ciro's argument is just that there are much more efficient ways to achieve those goals.
Resources to study for knowledge olympiads:
Knowledge olympiads are events that trick young kids into thinking that they are making progress, but only serve to distract them from what really matters, which is to dominate a state of the art as fast as possible, contact researches in the area, and publish truly novel results.
They are financially backed by high schools trying to make ads showing how they will turn your kids into geniuses (but also passionate teachers who fell into this hellish system), or companies who hire machines rather than entrepreneurs.
Hackathons are useless.
If you have a useful project, why would you ever restrict its development to a specific timeframe and with a specific set of contributors?
Just put your project on GitHub and promote it to try and get users and contributors instead!
Instead of announcing organizing hackathons, people should just curate forums where people with similar interests can talk to one another instead, to find new projects that might interest one another.
Restricting intensive development to a few days tends to produce crappy code and not reach real goals.

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A waste of time like the rest of the knowledge olympiads.
Saw this one mentioned on some Project Euler forum threads.
To be fair, this is one of the least worse ones.
Their system is quite good actually. Not as good as a GitHub repo with all the tests made explicit. But still pretty good.
They don't have an actual online judge system, all problems simply have a single small string solution, almost always integer or fixed precision floating point, and they just check that you've found the value.
The only metric that matters is who solved the problem first after publication. This is visible e.g. at: projecteuler.net/fastest=454 but only for logged in users... Lol it is ridiculous. The "language" in which problems were solved is just whatever the user put in their profile, they can't actually confirm that.
Once you solve a problem, you can then access its "private" forum thread: projecteuler.net/thread=950 and people will post a bunch of code solutions in there.
projecteuler.net says it started as a subsection in mathschallenge.net, and in 2006 moved to its own domain. WhoisXMLAPI WHOIS history says it was registered by domainmonster.com but details are anonymous. TODO: sample problem on mathschallenge.net on Wayback Machine? Likely wouldn't reveal much anyways though as there is no attribution to problem authors on that site.
www.hackerrank.com/contests/projecteuler/challenges holds challenges with an actual judge and sometimes multiple test cases so just printing the final solution number is not enough.
Project Euler problems typically involve finding or proving and then using a lemma that makes computation of the solution feasible without brute force. There is often an obvious brute force approach, but the pick problem sizes large enough such that it is just not fast enough, but the non-brute-force is.
As such, they live in the intersection of mathematics and computer science.
news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7057408 which is mega high on Google says:
I love project euler, but I've come to the realization that its purpose is to beat programmers soundly about the head and neck with a big math stick. At work last week, we were working on project euler at lunch, and had the one CS PhD in our midst not jumped up and explained the chinese remainder theorem to us, we wouldn't have had a chance.
In many cases, the efficient solution involves dynamic programming.
There are also a set of problems which are very numerical analysis in nature and require the approximation of some real number to a given precision. These are often very fiddly as I doubt most people can prove that their chosen hyperparameters guarantee the required precision.
Many problems ask for solution modulo some number. In general, this is only so that C/C++ users won't have to resort to using an arbitrary-precision arithmetic library and be able to fit everything into uint64 instead. Maybe it also helps the judge system slightly having smaller strings to compare. The final modulos usually don't add any insight to the problems.
Repositories of code solutions:
Repositories with hints but no solutions:
Basically no one has ever had the patience to create a single source that solves them all, all the above were done by individuals and stopped at some point. What we need is either a collaborative solution, or... LLMs.
Using Lean or other programmable proof assistants to solve Project Euler is the inevitable collision of two autisms. In particular, using Lean to prove that you have the correct solution, just making a Lean program that prints out the correct solution is likely now trivial as of 2025 by asking an LLM to port a Python solution to the new language.
Some efforts:
Mentions:
In other proof assistants, therefore with similar beauty:
The beauty of Project Euler is that it would serve both as a AI code generation benchmark and as an AI Math benchmark!
TODO: real name? Occupation?
Claude says he's from the UK and has a background in mathematics. Oxbridge feels likely. How I Failed, Failed, and Finally Succeeded at Learning How to Code says he started off on the ORIC computer, which is British-made, so he is likely British.
This was a registration CAPTCHA problem as of 2025:
Among the first 510 thousand square numbers, what is the sum of all the odd squares?
Python solution:
s = 0
for i in range(1, 510001, 2):
    s += i*i
print(s)
At: euler/0.py
Solution:
233168
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