@COTO I've tried for the past couple of hours to beat your answer on the judge the book by its cover

@NathanMerrill This is a blast-from-the-past, but did you ever re-run Traders to the Death?

...I believe so

let me look

Of all of my challenges, I think that that was the best, game-theory wise

I wish it had more participation

so, it looks like I didn't have the last code from you

I'm rerunning it now

On game 25 :P

woah, your changes made a huge difference

Well, it would be nice to win. On the other hand, if I recall correctly, there were 50,000 bugs in my code.

scores updated

Thanks.

Traders to the Death 2 might be something you want to try.

Possibly. Doing Multi-language KoTHs are tough, though, due to the IO

Every time there's a language I haven't done a KoTH in before, and it throws my program for a loop

That's why I've never hosted a KOTH.

Now that I've gotten Java, I might be able to run a Java-only KOTH.

(I don't really like Java, though)

As far as strongly typed languages go, it's my favorite

There are probably better ones, but I haven't tried them yet

also, are any of you on the dev release channel of chrome?

no

I'm thinking about running a Core War KOTH, since it wouldn't require different languages.

@NathanMerrill Unfortunately, my answer there is no longer the score to beat. Ofri Raviv's Python entry comes in at 0.221. He's using a clever strategy wherein he generates a sparse hashtable with only the bins for titles where 11 is a terrible guess. If the hashtable misses, he returns 11.

The result is slightly better than my hashtable approach where the load factor is well over 5.

I'm trying to create another book-judging contest (sandbox link) and I am trying to figure out what to do to avoid the hard-coding.

@COTO About what percent of all PPCG questions are being special-cased in your answer?

@PhiNotPi There really isn't any predictable correlation between problem titles and their scores. I looked briefly at length and keywords, and there's really nothing there to exploit. If you want to make a good book-judging contest, find some "cover" that has all kinds of rich, exploitable patterns in the data.

My contest idea is between titles and the code-golf tag.

@PhiNotPi Very few. 2%, if that.

So I was hoping that the titles would have a stronger relationship between titles and whether or not it is code golf.

@PhiNotPi Anything with "titles" in it (as in: English) is probably going to wind up being a hard coding contest. Maybe something like "correlations between tags and vote counts" or something.

How about view counts and vote counts? Those would correlate very highly.