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Can't you just setup one sacrificial account to grab the question pool, pass it out for distribution to solve, gather it back up, then step through the question

Can't you just setup one sacrificial account to grab the question pool, pass it out for distribution to solve, gather it back up, then step through the question pool with the solution set? Essentially they just collect the questions and answer something knowing the run won't be a success. Unless these questions are sampled from a larger question pool, a single registration sacrifice for Intel gathering seems worth the cost. You can even distribute the loses to your pool after. Worst case scenario your group loses the admission fee + adminision fee/group size.

shmatt 5y ago
This is the answer. * Sacrificial account crawls all the questions and puts them in queue * Team members pull questions one by one - and push answers back * Leader fills out answers as soon as the current one comes in (assuming you can't jump backwards/forwards) As long as the people are good enough at these kinds of tests, you'll win. It'll probably end up being a battle of 10+ teams that work like this
- fallingknife 5y ago
  You will need some error checking though. There is no trade off between accuracy and time here. Someone will get a 1600 and then if your team misses one you lose. Maybe each queued question goes to 3 people and unless all agree it goes to everyone's queue for vote.
- zucker42 5y ago
  How do you build such a system when there's no example of how the website will be formatted?
  - lbotos 5y ago
    You have humans do the actual work, where computers are just there for faster organization of human effort: an app with two queues: - those who input questions by copy and pasting them into an app or transcribing them, or speech to text -- apple offers all of these to iOS users in plain ol textboxes as far as I'm aware. - those who solve by reading from the app and submitting answers. Have N inputters getting all of the questions Have M solvers solving This builds your answer bank. Have someone submit from the answer bank with a text based search.
  - electroly 5y ago
    The "system" could be a shared Google Doc. I'm not sure you'd even want anything more complicated than that. The level of automation required here doesn't extend beyond copy-paste. The sacrificial account "crawl" is a human being with Google Docs open.
- mysterydip 5y ago
  * leader runs away with the pot
- jandrese 5y ago
  Maybe pulls a question and distributes it to the group, everyone answers, leader chooses the most popular answer. If you have to enter answers one at a time anyway there isn't as much opportunity to parallelize the task. You might get some win from the reading comprehension questions, but even then being 100% right is priority #1, as you can assume there will be multiple teams that get perfect scores.
- recursive 5y ago
  How do you know all accounts will receive the same questions in the same order?

shmatt 5y ago

This is the answer. * Sacrificial account crawls all the questions and puts them in queue * Team members pull questions one by one - and push answers back * Leader fills out answers as soon as the current one comes in (assuming you can't jump backwards/forwards) As long as the people are good enough at these kinds of tests, you'll win. It'll probably end up being a battle of 10+ teams that work like this

fallingknife 5y ago
You will need some error checking though. There is no trade off between accuracy and time here. Someone will get a 1600 and then if your team misses one you lose. Maybe each queued question goes to 3 people and unless all agree it goes to everyone's queue for vote.
zucker42 5y ago
How do you build such a system when there's no example of how the website will be formatted?
- lbotos 5y ago
  You have humans do the actual work, where computers are just there for faster organization of human effort: an app with two queues: - those who input questions by copy and pasting them into an app or transcribing them, or speech to text -- apple offers all of these to iOS users in plain ol textboxes as far as I'm aware. - those who solve by reading from the app and submitting answers. Have N inputters getting all of the questions Have M solvers solving This builds your answer bank. Have someone submit from the answer bank with a text based search.
- electroly 5y ago
  The "system" could be a shared Google Doc. I'm not sure you'd even want anything more complicated than that. The level of automation required here doesn't extend beyond copy-paste. The sacrificial account "crawl" is a human being with Google Docs open.
mysterydip 5y ago
* leader runs away with the pot
jandrese 5y ago
Maybe pulls a question and distributes it to the group, everyone answers, leader chooses the most popular answer. If you have to enter answers one at a time anyway there isn't as much opportunity to parallelize the task. You might get some win from the reading comprehension questions, but even then being 100% right is priority #1, as you can assume there will be multiple teams that get perfect scores.
recursive 5y ago
How do you know all accounts will receive the same questions in the same order?