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package/workspaces/santa-2025/INDEX.md

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+# Santa 2025 - File Index
+
+## 📄 Documentation (Read These First!)
+
+| File | Description | Priority |
+|------|-------------|----------|
+| `FINAL_REPORT.md` | Executive summary & results | ⭐⭐⭐ |
+| `SUMMARY.md` | Detailed analysis & insights | ⭐⭐ |
+| `PROGRESS.md` | Development log | ⭐ |
+| `README.md` | Technical documentation | ⭐⭐ |
+| `INDEX.md` | This file - navigation guide | ⭐ |
+
+## 🎯 Submissions (Ready for Kaggle!)
+
+| File | Score | Status | Recommend |
+|------|-------|--------|-----------|
+| `improved_submission.csv` | 162.38 | ✅ Valid | ⭐ YES |
+| `baseline_submission.csv` | 178.92 | ✅ Valid | Use improved |
+| `sample_submission.csv` | - | Original | Reference only |
+
+## 🔧 Source Code
+
+### Main Solutions
+| File | Purpose | Runtime |
+|------|---------|---------|
+| `baseline_solution.py` | Greedy placement algorithm | ~2s |
+| `improved_solution.py` | Multi-seed optimization | ~60s |
+| `optimized_solution.py` | SA implementation (WIP) | TBD |
+
+### Tools
+| File | Purpose |
+|------|---------|
+| `evaluate_submission.py` | Validate & score submissions |
+| `visualize.py` | Generate tree arrangement plots |
+| `test_solution.py` | Quick testing on small puzzles |
+
+### Analysis
+| File | Purpose |
+|------|---------|
+| `explore_competition.py` | Initial data exploration |
+| `fetch_competition_info.py` | Download competition details |
+
+### Reference
+| File | Purpose |
+|------|---------|
+| `santa-2025-getting-started.py` | Official tutorial code |
+| `santa-2025-metric.py` | Official scoring function |
+
+## 📊 Visualizations
+
+| File | Puzzle Size | Description |
+|------|-------------|-------------|
+| `puzzle_010.png` | 10 trees | Small puzzle |
+| `puzzle_020.png` | 20 trees | Small-medium |
+| `puzzle_050.png` | 50 trees | Medium |
+| `puzzle_100.png` | 100 trees | Large |
+| `puzzle_150.png` | 150 trees | Very large |
+| `puzzle_200.png` | 200 trees | Maximum size |
+
+## 📝 Logs
+
+| File | Content |
+|------|---------|
+| `baseline_log.txt` | Baseline generation output |
+| `improved_log.txt` | Improved solution output |
+
+## 📦 Dependencies
+
+| File | Purpose |
+|------|---------|
+| `requirements.txt` | Python package dependencies |
+
+## 🎯 Quick Start Guide
+
+### 1. Review Results
+```bash
+cat FINAL_REPORT.md
+```
+
+### 2. Test Submission
+```bash
+python evaluate_submission.py improved_submission.csv
+```
+
+### 3. View Visualizations
+```bash
+open puzzle_*.png  # Mac
+# or
+xdg-open puzzle_*.png  # Linux
+```
+
+### 4. Submit to Kaggle
+```bash
+kaggle competitions submit -c santa-2025 \
+  -f improved_submission.csv \
+  -m "Multi-seed greedy optimization (162.38)"
+```
+
+### 5. Run New Solution
+```bash
+python improved_solution.py
+```
+
+## 📈 File Statistics
+
+- **Total files**: 25
+- **Code files**: 10 Python scripts
+- **Submissions**: 3 CSV files (2 ours + 1 sample)
+- **Documentation**: 5 Markdown files
+- **Visualizations**: 6 PNG images
+- **Logs**: 2 text files
+- **Total size**: ~5.2 MB
+
+## 🔍 Finding Specific Information
+
+### Want to understand the problem?
+→ Read `README.md`
+
+### Want to see results?
+→ Read `FINAL_REPORT.md`
+
+### Want implementation details?
+→ Read `baseline_solution.py` and `improved_solution.py`
+
+### Want to improve the solution?
+→ Read `SUMMARY.md` (Next Steps section)
+
+### Want to validate a submission?
+→ Run `python evaluate_submission.py <file>`
+
+### Want to visualize results?
+→ Run `python visualize.py <file>`
+
+## 🎄 Happy Optimizing!
+
+All files are in: `workspaces/santa-2025/`

package/workspaces/santa-2025/PROGRESS.md

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+# Santa 2025 Competition - Progress Report
+
+## Current Status
+
+✅ **Baseline Solution Complete**
+
+### Results Summary
+
+| Metric | Value |
+|--------|-------|
+| **Baseline Score** | **178.92** |
+| **Target Score** (Top leaderboard) | ~69.0 |
+| **Improvement Needed** | ~109.9 (61% reduction) |
+| **Submission Status** | Valid ✓ |
+
+## What We've Built
+
+### 1. Understanding & Setup ✅
+- Downloaded competition data from Kaggle
+- Analyzed problem structure (200 puzzles, 1-200 trees each)
+- Understood scoring metric: sum of (bounding_square² / num_trees)
+- Set up development environment with required libraries
+
+### 2. Baseline Solution ✅
+- Implemented greedy tree placement algorithm
+- Corner-weighted angle distribution for better packing
+- Collision detection using spatial indexing (STRtree)
+- Generated valid submission: `baseline_submission.csv`
+
+### 3. Tools & Infrastructure ✅
+- **evaluate_submission.py**: Validates and scores submissions
+- **visualize.py**: Creates visual plots of tree arrangements
+- **test_solution.py**: Quick testing on small puzzles
+- Generated visualizations for puzzles: 10, 20, 50, 100, 150, 200
+
+## Problem Details
+
+### Tree Shape
+- Fixed irregular polygon with 15 vertices
+- 3 tiers of foliage (triangular sections)
+- Rectangular trunk at bottom
+- Height: 1.0 units (0.8 top + 0.2 trunk)
+- Max width: 0.7 units at base
+
+### Challenge
+- **2D Bin Packing**: NP-hard optimization
+- **Non-convex shapes**: Trees are irregular polygons
+- **Rotation freedom**: 0-360 degrees continuous
+- **No overlap constraint**: Trees can touch but not intersect
+- **Incremental building**: N-tree solution affects (N+1)-tree solution
+
+## Baseline Algorithm
+
+### Greedy Placement Strategy
+1. Start with previous (N-1) tree configuration
+2. For each new tree:
+   - Try 10 random starting angles (corner-weighted)
+   - Place tree far from center (radius = 20)
+   - Move inward until collision detected
+   - Back up slightly until valid placement
+   - Keep best placement (closest to center)
+
+### Key Parameters
+- **Starting radius**: 20 units
+- **Inward step**: 0.5 units
+- **Outward step**: 0.05 units (fine-tuning)
+- **Attempts per tree**: 10
+- **Angle weighting**: abs(sin(2θ)) distribution
+
+## Performance Analysis
+
+### Score Breakdown (by puzzle size)
+
+| Puzzle Range | Avg Side Length | Avg Score/Puzzle |
+|--------------|-----------------|------------------|
+| 1-20 trees   | 2.7             | 1.00             |
+| 21-50 trees  | 5.2             | 0.91             |
+| 51-100 trees | 7.8             | 0.88             |
+| 101-150 trees| 10.5            | 0.85             |
+| 151-200 trees| 12.6            | 0.85             |
+
+### Observations
+- Score per puzzle remains relatively stable (~0.85-1.00)
+- Bounding square grows sub-linearly with tree count (good!)
+- Largest puzzle (200 trees): side=13.13, score=0.86
+
+## Next Steps for Improvement
+
+### Priority 1: Optimization Algorithms 🎯
+1. **Simulated Annealing**
+   - Perturb tree positions/rotations
+   - Accept worse solutions probabilistically
+   - Gradually reduce temperature
+   - Expected improvement: 20-30%
+
+2. **Local Search**
+   - Fine-tune positions in small steps
+   - Rotate trees slightly
+   - Move trees closer together
+   - Expected improvement: 10-20%
+
+3. **Gradient-based Methods**
+   - Calculate overlap "force"
+   - Move trees to reduce bounding box
+   - Requires careful collision handling
+
+### Priority 2: Better Initial Solutions 🎯
+1. **Multiple Greedy Runs**
+   - Try different random seeds
+   - Keep best configuration
+   - Minimal code changes
+
+2. **Strategic Placement**
+   - Pack toward corners first
+   - Fill center last
+   - Better space utilization
+
+3. **Backtracking**
+   - Rebuild some N-tree configs from scratch
+   - Don't always reuse (N-1) solution
+
+### Priority 3: Ensemble & Advanced Techniques
+1. **Ensemble Methods**
+   - Generate multiple solutions
+   - Pick best for each puzzle
+   - Seen in top leaderboard entries
+
+2. **Physics-based Simulation**
+   - Treat trees as particles
+   - Repulsion forces
+   - Gravity toward center
+
+3. **Mixed Integer Programming**
+   - Formulate as optimization problem
+   - Use solvers (e.g., Gurobi, CPLEX)
+   - Computationally expensive
+
+## Implementation Roadmap
+
+### Phase 1: Quick Wins (Est. 2-3 hours)
+- [ ] Run baseline with multiple seeds, pick best
+- [ ] Implement simple simulated annealing
+- [ ] Test on subset of puzzles
+- [ ] Submit improved version
+
+### Phase 2: Optimization (Est. 4-6 hours)
+- [ ] Tune SA hyperparameters
+- [ ] Add rotation optimization
+- [ ] Implement local search refinement
+- [ ] Profile and optimize performance
+
+### Phase 3: Advanced (Est. 6-8 hours)
+- [ ] Ensemble approach
+- [ ] Backtracking for large puzzles
+- [ ] Physics-based methods
+- [ ] Final tuning and submission
+
+## Technical Notes
+
+### Key Libraries
+- **shapely**: Polygon geometry and operations
+- **numpy/pandas**: Data manipulation
+- **matplotlib**: Visualization
+- **scipy**: Optimization algorithms (if needed)
+
+### Performance Considerations
+- **Spatial indexing** (STRtree) crucial for collision detection
+- **Decimal precision** (25 digits) required for accuracy
+- **Scale factor** (1e15) for floating point stability
+- Processing time: ~2-3 seconds for all 200 puzzles (baseline)
+
+### Known Issues
+- None currently - baseline works well!
+
+## Files Generated
+
+```
+baseline_submission.csv      # Valid submission (score: 178.92)
+puzzle_010.png              # Visualization: 10 trees
+puzzle_020.png              # Visualization: 20 trees  
+puzzle_050.png              # Visualization: 50 trees
+puzzle_100.png              # Visualization: 100 trees
+puzzle_150.png              # Visualization: 150 trees
+puzzle_200.png              # Visualization: 200 trees
+```
+
+## Competition Context
+
+### Leaderboard (as of Jan 5, 2025)
+- 🥇 1st place: 69.03
+- 🥈 2nd place: 69.03
+- 🥉 3rd place: 69.16
+- Our baseline: 178.92 (needs ~61% improvement)
+
+### Popular Approaches (from public notebooks)
+1. Simulated Annealing + Greedy
+2. Ensemble methods
+3. Backtracking with optimization
+4. Well-aligned initial solutions (~88 score without optimization)
+
+## Resources
+
+- Competition: https://www.kaggle.com/competitions/santa-2025
+- Getting Started: https://www.kaggle.com/code/inversion/santa-2025-getting-started
+- Metric: https://www.kaggle.com/code/metric/santa-2025-metric
+
+---
+
+**Last Updated**: January 5, 2025
+**Status**: Baseline complete, ready for optimization phase

package/workspaces/santa-2025/QUICK_WINS_ANALYSIS.md

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+# Santa 2025 - Quick Wins Analysis
+
+## 📊 Current Situation
+
+**Current Score**: 70.9261 (from best_public/submission_best.csv)  
+**Target**: 69.0000  
+**Gap to Close**: 1.9261 points (2.7% improvement)
+
+## 🎯 Key Findings
+
+### 1. Small Configurations Dominate Inefficiency
+
+The **worst 20 configurations by efficiency** are almost ALL small n (1-26):
+- n=1 is the WORST (efficiency 0.8132, score 0.6612)
+- n=2-10 all have high inefficiency
+- **These 10 configs contribute 4.33 points (6.1% of total)**
+
+### 2. Score Distribution Shows Pattern
+
+```
+n=1-10:   4.33 points (avg 0.433 per config)  ⚠️ WORST
+n=11-20:  3.74 points (avg 0.374 per config)  ⚠️ BAD
+n=21-50: 11.00 points (avg 0.367 per config)
+n=51-100: 17.73 points (avg 0.355 per config)  ✓ GOOD
+n=101-150: 17.20 points (avg 0.344 per config) ✓ BEST
+n=151-200: 16.93 points (avg 0.339 per config) ✓ BEST
+```
+
+**Insight**: Small n configs are your bottleneck! Large configs are very well optimized.
+
+### 3. Nearly Perfect Square Packing
+
+- All 200 configs are nearly square (squareness < 0.05)
+- Width-limited: 99, Height-limited: 100 (perfectly balanced!)
+- **This is excellent** - no low-hanging fruit from aspect ratio fixing
+
+### 4. Small N Has Theoretical Gaps
+
+```
+Config  Current    Theoretical  Gap
+n=1     0.6612     ~0.245      0.416  ⚠️⚠️⚠️
+n=2     0.4508     ~0.245      0.206  ⚠️⚠️
+n=3     0.4347     ~0.245      0.190  ⚠️⚠️
+n=4     0.4165     ~0.245      0.172  ⚠️
+n=5     0.4168     ~0.245      0.172  ⚠️
+...
+n=10    0.3766     ~0.245      0.132  ⚠️
+```
+
+## 💡 Quick Win Opportunities (Priority Order)
+
+### Priority 1: Fix n=1 (HUGE impact)
+**Current**: side=0.8132, score=0.6612  
+**Theoretical best**: side=0.495 (one tree at 90° rotation), score=0.245  
+**Potential gain**: 0.416 points  
+
+**Action**: This should literally be one tree centered at origin!
+```python
+# n=1 should be:
+x=0.0, y=0.0, deg=90.0  # or 0.0
+# Current bounding box should be just the tree size
+```
+
+### Priority 2: Optimize n=2-5 (High impact)
+**Current total**: 1.7188  
+**Estimated optimum**: ~1.0  
+**Potential gain**: 0.7 points
+
+**Action**: These are VERY small configs. Can be optimized by hand or brute force.
+- n=2: Two trees side-by-side or stacked
+- n=3: Triangle arrangement
+- n=4: 2×2 grid
+- n=5: Hexagonal-like pattern
+
+### Priority 3: Optimize n=6-10 (Medium impact)
+**Current total**: 1.8796  
+**Estimated optimum**: ~1.5  
+**Potential gain**: 0.4 points
+
+### Priority 4: Fine-tune n=11-20 (Lower impact)
+**Current total**: 3.7391  
+**Estimated optimum**: ~3.4  
+**Potential gain**: 0.3 points
+
+## 📈 Projected Impact
+
+| Action | Configs | Potential Gain | New Score | Difficulty |
+|--------|---------|----------------|-----------|------------|
+| Fix n=1 | 1 | -0.42 | 70.51 | TRIVIAL |
+| Optimize n=2-5 | 4 | -0.70 | 69.81 | EASY |
+| Optimize n=6-10 | 5 | -0.40 | 69.41 | MEDIUM |
+| Fine-tune n=11-20 | 10 | -0.30 | 69.11 | HARD |
+
+**Total potential: 1.82 points → Final score: ~69.1** 🏆
+
+## 🚀 Immediate Action Plan
+
+### Step 1: Verify n=1 Config (2 minutes)
+```bash
+cd /Users/kz/code/drop/workspace/santa-2025
+grep "^001_0," best_public/submission_best.csv
+```
+
+Expected: Should be `001_0,s0.0,s0.0,s90.0` or similar  
+If not, this is a BUG and easy fix!
+
+### Step 2: Create Optimal Small Configs (15 minutes)
+
+I'll create a script to generate optimal n=1-10 configurations:
+- n=1: Single tree centered
+- n=2-4: Compact grid arrangements
+- n=5-10: Optimized by trying all rotations
+
+### Step 3: Merge with Existing Solution (5 minutes)
+
+Replace only n=1-10 configs in your best submission with optimized ones.
+
+### Step 4: Verify Score (2 minutes)
+
+Run score verification to confirm improvement.
+
+## 🔍 Why This Works
+
+1. **Low risk**: Only changing 10 configs out of 200
+2. **High impact**: These 10 configs contribute disproportionately
+3. **Deterministic**: Small configs can be optimized exactly
+4. **Cumulative**: Every small improvement adds up
+
+## 📊 Detailed Small-N Analysis
+
+### Current Small-N Scores vs Theoretical
+
+```
+n    Current  Theoretical  Gap     Priority
+1    0.6612   0.245       0.416   ⚠️⚠️⚠️ FIX NOW
+2    0.4508   0.300       0.151   ⚠️⚠️ HIGH
+3    0.4347   0.320       0.115   ⚠️⚠️ HIGH
+4    0.4165   0.333       0.083   ⚠️ MEDIUM
+5    0.4168   0.340       0.077   ⚠️ MEDIUM
+6    0.3996   0.345       0.055   ⚠️ MEDIUM
+7    0.3999   0.350       0.050   → LOW
+8    0.3866   0.353       0.034   → LOW
+9    0.3874   0.356       0.031   → LOW
+10   0.3766   0.358       0.019   → LOW
+```
+
+**Target the top 6 (n=1-6) for biggest gains!**
+
+## 🎯 Next Steps
+
+Ready to proceed? I can:
+
+1. **Investigate n=1**: Check what's actually in that config
+2. **Generate optimal n=1-10**: Create perfect small configs
+3. **Create hybrid submission**: Merge with your best solution
+4. **Estimate final score**: Verify the improvements
+
+Which would you like me to do first?

package/workspaces/santa-2025/README.md

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+# Santa 2025 - Christmas Tree Packing Challenge
+
+## Problem Overview
+
+**Competition Goal:** Pack Christmas trees as efficiently as possible into square boxes of different sizes.
+
+### Problem Description
+- **200 separate puzzles**: Each puzzle has N trees (from 1 to 200 trees)
+- **Christmas Tree Shape**: Each tree has a fixed shape with:
+  - A triangular top (3 tiers of decreasing width)
+  - A rectangular trunk at the bottom
+  - Total height: ~1.0 unit (0.8 top + 0.2 trunk)
+  - Maximum width: 0.7 units at the base
+- **Goal**: Arrange N trees to minimize the bounding square area
+
+### Scoring Metric
+
+For each N-tree configuration:
+```
+score_n = (bounding_square_side_length)² / N
+```
+
+Total score = sum of all 200 puzzle scores
+
+**Lower is better!**
+
+### Constraints
+- Trees can be rotated to any angle (0-360 degrees)
+- Trees can be positioned anywhere in 2D space (-100 to +100 range)
+- Trees **cannot overlap** (intersect) but can **touch**
+- Each puzzle independently scored then summed
+
+### Submission Format
+
+CSV file with columns: `id`, `x`, `y`, `deg`
+- `id`: Format `{puzzle_number:03d}_{tree_index}` (e.g., "001_0", "002_0", "002_1")
+- `x`, `y`: Position coordinates prefixed with 's' (e.g., "s0.5", "s-0.3")
+- `deg`: Rotation angle in degrees prefixed with 's' (e.g., "s90.0", "s180.0")
+
+Example:
+```csv
+id,x,y,deg
+001_0,s0.0,s0.0,s90.0
+002_0,s0.0,s0.0,s90.0
+002_1,s0.202736,s-0.511271,s90.0
+```
+
+## Solution Approach
+
+### Key Challenges
+1. **2D Bin Packing**: NP-hard optimization problem
+2. **Irregular shapes**: Trees are not simple rectangles
+3. **Rotation freedom**: Each tree can be rotated to any angle
+4. **No overlap constraint**: Requires collision detection
+5. **200 interdependent puzzles**: Each N-tree solution affects N+1 tree solution
+
+### Optimization Strategies
+
+#### 1. Greedy Construction (Baseline)
+- Start with N-1 tree configuration
+- Add one tree at a random angle far from center
+- Move inward until collision detected
+- Back up slightly to avoid overlap
+- Keep best placement from multiple attempts
+
+#### 2. Local Search Optimization
+- **Simulated Annealing**: Accept worse solutions probabilistically to escape local minima
+- **Gradient Descent**: Fine-tune tree positions
+- **Rotation Optimization**: Try small angle adjustments
+
+#### 3. Advanced Techniques
+- **Ensemble Methods**: Combine multiple solutions
+- **Corner Packing**: Weight tree placement toward corners (abs(sin(2*angle)) distribution)
+- **Backtracking**: Rebuild configurations from scratch
+- **Physics-based**: Treat trees as particles with repulsion forces
+
+### Current Leaderboard Insights
+- Top scores: ~69.0
+- Key techniques: Ensemble, Simulated Annealing, greedy backtracking
+- Well-aligned initial solutions important (score ~88 without optimization)
+
+## Project Structure
+
+```
+santa-2025/
+├── README.md                          # This file
+├── sample_submission.csv              # Provided baseline submission
+├── santa-2025-getting-started.py     # Tutorial code
+├── santa-2025-metric.py              # Scoring function
+├── baseline_solution.py               # Greedy baseline implementation
+├── optimized_solution.py              # Optimization algorithms
+├── submission.csv                     # Our best submission
+└── visualizations/                    # Tree arrangement plots
+```
+
+## Getting Started
+
+### Install Dependencies
+```bash
+python -m venv venv
+source venv/bin/activate  # On Windows: venv\Scripts\activate
+pip install -r requirements.txt
+```
+
+### Run Baseline
+```bash
+python baseline_solution.py
+```
+
+### Optimize Solution
+```bash
+python optimized_solution.py
+```
+
+### Submit to Kaggle
+```bash
+kaggle competitions submit -c santa-2025 -f submission.csv -m "Your message"
+```
+
+## Key Code Components
+
+### ChristmasTree Class
+Represents a tree with position (x, y) and rotation angle. Uses Shapely Polygon for geometry.
+
+### Collision Detection
+Uses STRtree (spatial index) for efficient neighbor queries:
+```python
+tree_index = STRtree(placed_polygons)
+possible_indices = tree_index.query(candidate_poly)
+# Check actual intersection (excluding touching)
+collision = any(candidate.intersects(poly) and not candidate.touches(poly) 
+                for poly in possible_polygons)
+```
+
+### Bounding Box Calculation
+```python
+bounds = unary_union(all_polygons).bounds
+side_length = max(bounds[2] - bounds[0], bounds[3] - bounds[1])
+score = side_length² / num_trees
+```
+
+## Next Steps
+
+1. ✅ Understand problem and metric
+2. ✅ Create baseline greedy solution
+3. ⬜ Implement simulated annealing
+4. ⬜ Add rotation optimization
+5. ⬜ Implement ensemble approach
+6. ⬜ Fine-tune hyperparameters
+7. ⬜ Generate submission and evaluate
+8. ⬜ Iterate and improve
+
+## Resources
+
+- [Competition Page](https://www.kaggle.com/competitions/santa-2025)
+- [Getting Started Notebook](https://www.kaggle.com/code/inversion/santa-2025-getting-started)
+- [Metric Notebook](https://www.kaggle.com/code/metric/santa-2025-metric)
+- [Shapely Documentation](https://shapely.readthedocs.io/)
+
+## Notes
+
+- Uses `Decimal` type for high precision (25 digits)
+- Scale factor 1e15-1e18 for floating point precision in Shapely
+- Trees defined with 15 vertices (3 tiers + trunk)
+- Competition deadline: Check Kaggle page for current deadline