Hashcode 2022

Our solution for the coding challenge Hashcode 2022.
Team name: Road Blizzards (@cartmenez, @FlopsKa, @holtri, and @englhardt).

Competition results

Place 1108 out of 10177 teams.

A              30
B         412,603
C          24,664
D          75,904
E       1,637,258
F         249,868
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Total:  2,400,327

Approach

Implementation of reader, writer and scoring function.

• Greedy: schedule projects with contributors that have required skill level (no learning, no mentoring)
• Greedy with Reordering: greedy + reordering of projects and contributors at the beginning + learning + mentoring
• Simulation: simulate time and schedule possible projects (NOTE: way too slow to compute)

Post-competition results

Available in the notebook.

A              30
B         469,442
C          24,664
D          63,576
E       1,637,258
F         247,107
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Total:  2,442,077