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buybuydandavis comments on [link] Baidu cheats in an AI contest in order to gain a 0.24% advantage - Less Wrong Discussion

10 Post author: Wei_Dai 06 June 2015 06:39AM

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Comment author: Gunnar_Zarncke 06 June 2015 09:44:35PM 2 points [-]

Summary of the cheat: They tried 200 times (in one year; instead of at most once a week) and got lucky because of minor randomization artefacts.

Comment author: buybuydandavis 06 June 2015 10:19:37PM 2 points [-]

Are the 200 results out there? I'd like to see how the distribution compared to Google's value.