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Re:Numerai – A hedge fund built by a global community of ano... by nradov on Sunday October 16, 2016 @02:25PM (#12720074)
You don't even need to push one or two stocks higher. With thousands of fake accounts you could just pick a different stock for each account at random. Certainly a few of those stocks will turn in huge returns. Collect your Bitcoin reward from Numerai. Repeat.

Maybe they have some way of preventing people from gaming the system that way?

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Re:Numerai – A hedge fund built by a global community of ano... by mikbob on Sunday October 16, 2016 @03:43PM (#12720537)
The thing is, with the data no one knows what each row represents, or even what the features are or what they're predicting is. Each submission has 30,000 predictions, so you would need to have an unreasonably good random guess to get anywhere near the top of the leaderboard.
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Re:Numerai – A hedge fund built by a global community of ano... by gravypod on Sunday October 16, 2016 @02:32PM (#12720133)
I didn't think of that, great idea!
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