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Winning the Battle for Riddler Nation; an Agent-Based Modelling Approach

• mcphage 9y ago
  I wish I read The Riddler more regularly—this is a really interesting problem, and I'm sorry I missed the contest!
  • cgmil 9y ago
    The contest might be still on. The guy running it took a week off.
• mattdodge 9y ago
  This was a fun problem. I wish I spent a little more time on it. My solution and approach was pretty similar to the OP, code and write up here: https://github.com/mattdodge/538-riddler-nation https://github.com/mattdodge/538-riddler-nation The biggest takeaway I think is that you don't even need to beat the "winning solution", you need to beat more of the general population than that solution does.
  • cgmil 9y ago
    Damn, yours beats mine. :(
    • mattdodge 9y ago
      Haha, but that doesn't matter! You just have to beat more other people than I do.
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• refrigerator 9y ago
  PSA: FiveThirtyEight are running the problem again [1], and this time have released the data from the previous battle so you can see the soldier distributions that everyone took last time [2]. Submissions are due this Friday. [1]: http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/the-battle-for-riddler-nation-round-2/ http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/the-battle-for-riddler-n... [2]: https://github.com/fivethirtyeight/data/tree/master/riddler-castles https://github.com/fivethirtyeight/data/tree/master/riddler-...
  • kevinwang 9y ago
    aw, the submission form says "Use this form to submit your strategy for the May 19, 2017, Riddler by 11:59 p.m. EST on May 28, 2017." :(
• deleted 9y ago
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