That has been the only hit so far after dropping out of everything else. The $12/wk budget is the best part... not winning anything is not so interesting. Not wasting my time on dreaming up some system that might help solve the puzzle is super dull... but when you finally see the truth you can't unsee it. My app now is basically a heavily over engineered QP generator.

Finally got to use a Markov chain in bioinformatics to calculate transition probabilities for Mendellian inheritance, in that domain it is a wonderful tool to have that gets genuine results. I have 39 problems to go in the bio algorithm challenges, they should be introducing hidden Markov models soon. I never quite got past Markov chains with lottery data, so this will be an interesting learning opportunity.

Also, bioinformatics will lead to biostatistics, where I will be getting some good foundational practice using the R language.

Sort of hoping to be inspired to bring something back to this domain, but so far I have seen nothing applicable.

I do stand by my decision to cut back from $14/wk to $12/wk... instantly shaves $104/year off the budget and it is somehow less discouraging to have the chance and miss millions vs missing $500 repeatedly... and it only needs to work once.

Still here, still playing, still playing responsibly.