You'll enjoy this thread. Not quiiiite the same, but I "won" an undergraduate AI in-class competition to predict the closing price of eBay auctions. (Remember eBay? This was when dinosaurs ruled the earth and undergrads didn't have cell phones because why would you.) Algorithm:https://twitter.com/JanelleCShane/status/973637418225090560 …
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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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