Other obligations are preventing me from commenting it quite to the extent I’ve done in the past, but I think this should still be quite helpful. If you make changes, please don’t remove the comments. Let’s keep this contest ‘in the daylight’ as much as possible instead of obscufating everything.

score = k1*result + k2*e(k3*runtime) + k4*max(complexity-10,0)

Where:

k1 = 0.1
k2 = 2
k3 = 0.05
k4 = 1

The current leading entry has a time of 91s, result of 59747, and cyc of 24. Here’s a breakdown of the current tradoffs:

-cyc and score are a 1:1 ratio (i.e. each point shaved off cyc is a point shaved off the score)

-time and score are a 0.1:0.95 ratio
-result and score are a 1:0.1 ratio

We are a little past the ‘knee’ of the time exponential curve, which is rather flat until about ~80s). Therefore more is to be gained right now by shaving off time than anything else. Hope this helps everyone!