What is the probability of a person with both the attributes "looks like they belong to berghain" and "can solve an obscure live optimisation challenge" ?
As someone who goes there often, I can say it's surprisingly high
I wonder if this exact solve tried setting "more rejections than X" as failure, so that you can get better best case for the cost of dropped worst cases
chriskw•1d ago
A quick sanity check is in Scenario 2, you needed 300 creative people each with a ~6.2% chance of showing up. The odds of getting a sequence of people where that's even possible for the first place score (2906 rejections + 1000 accepts = 3906 total people) is on the order of 1 in 10000, and that's without even factoring in the other constraints.
mpeg•14m ago
That way people can test offline with random sequences, but the leaderboard runs have the same seed for everyone. Maybe I'm missing something obvious, but I think this would have lessened the impact of luck.