[Rallen89]

>Shortly after that, another contestant, Youssef Nader, independently discovered the same word in the same area, with even clearer results — winning the second place prize of $10,000.

That's what u get for optimising your code

[zeteo]

Not really:

>Youssef used a model from the Kaggle competition and was inspired by Luke’s results to look in the same area.

[hansoolo]

I thought the same. He had the better results, but too late.

[QuercusMax]

Or maybe the winner optimized his code, resulting in faster time to get results. Either one is equally plausible!

[countrymile]

computed on his laptop whilst he was at a party apparently. Legend!

[lukeboi]

luke here, thanks!

[esafak]

If quality is a factor, they should have withheld the prize for a reasonable time (a day?) in case someone posts a better result.