cousin_it comments on Leveling IRL - Less Wrong

33 Post author: cousin_it 05 August 2011 09:35PM

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Comment author: cousin_it 06 August 2011 12:01:19AM 3 points [-]

The problems have rising difficulty level. You need much more understanding to solve a problem like this than to solve this one.

Comment author: Osmium_Penguin 06 August 2011 05:10:57PM 0 points [-]

(Ooh, I like that first problem. It reframes in all sorts of interesting directions.)

Comment author: JGWeissman 06 August 2011 12:37:28AM 0 points [-]

Ah, the increasing difficulty level makes a difference. Though for purpose of proving skills, it seems you could just skip to the harder ones, even though that may not work well for training.

Comment author: [deleted] 06 August 2011 11:52:10PM 2 points [-]

They are not monotonically harder, and they are not all the same exact skill being tested. So someone who has completed Project Euler problems 1-30 has done more to demonstrate her ability than someone who has only done Project Euler problem 30.

If your level is such that 30 represents your current challenge, then doing 1-29 won't take toooooo much time anyway. And you can still have fun trying to improve on the best solution offered so far for the problem -- there are multiple ways to solve a given Project Euler problem.