1) Scrape the auction page.
2) Locate the current price.
3) Calculate an adjustment factor, using $WORKED_WAY_TOO_HARD_ON_THIS.
4) Because of a coding bug, don't actually use the calculated adjustment factor, but rather set an adjustment of zero.
5) Guess the current price plus 0
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I destroyed ~30 other very smart students and my prof was pretty impressed until I said, halfway through reviewing results, "Actually hang on this is only outperforming everyone because of a bug which lobotomizes it."
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Also: <old man voice> In my day we didn't have your Nokogiri HTML-parsing newfangled nonsense. We walked to school uphill both ways while parsing strings with regular expressions and yes it sucked exactly as much as you think it probably did. </old man voice>
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Reminds me of a plot from Person of Interest. AI got its memory wiped every day, so it hired a bunch of data entry people, printed out the day's data, and had them key it back in the next day.
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