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I wrote a script that wins the majority of HQ Trivia games

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Re: I wrote a script that wins the majority of HQ Trivia games

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Post by clay_to_n »

jtokoph wrote: post #29

I've done digging of my own to do the same Google search tricks and found that you can just connect to a websocket and get a live stream of the questions, possible answers as well as every chat message in the feed. OCR not required. I was also considering using the chat messages to get the answer. People are either going to mostly say the right answer to sound smart or mostly send the wrong answers to try to trick pe…

> I was also considering using the chat messages to get the answer. People are either going to mostly say the right answer to sound smart or mostly send the wrong answers to try to trick people. Keep track of which is most common and you have an additional datapoint.

I doubt you'd have much success with this approach because how "correct" the group is, as a whole, changes every question. There's no way to know if the chat group is well-informed or not until the question is over and you see how many people were correct.

Re: I wrote a script that wins the majority of HQ Trivia games

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Post by applecrazy »

cantrip wrote: post #48
stervy wrote: post #47

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Hi applecrazy! I'm the author of the article. I'm really sorry that the work seems like it plagiarizes yours. I started this project as soon as HQ Trivia came out, and I did not see your article until reading this comment. A few other comments on this thread show that others (e.g. https://github.com/nbclark/hqcheat/ ) also implemented very similar techniques, so it seems that this may just be a "great minds think ali…

A level headed classy response to a knee jerk baseless claim. To think that two (or three or a dozen) clever engineers couldn't independently look at one of the most popular mobile apps and think "I can game this" is silly.

After thinking over this, I realized I was in the wrong and I agree with you 100%. This was completely a knee jerk reaction to a coincidence I found, and I apologize for accusing stervy for copying my post on the basis of a mere pattern. I guess I still have more to learn.

I wish I could take back my baseless accusation, but the internet is forever :-/

Re: I wrote a script that wins the majority of HQ Trivia games

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Post by applecrazy »

stervy wrote: post #47
applecrazy wrote: post #19

This article practically rips off my article as well as an article I cited in that post, which I submitted earlier this week. If you put both articles side-by-side, they have the same structure and a fairly similar approach to the problem. While this could be a coincidence (and honestly, I don’t care), I’m still a little miffed that the author didn’t bother to cite his inspiration. The post in question: https://apple…

Hi applecrazy! I'm the author of the article. I'm really sorry that the work seems like it plagiarizes yours. I started this project as soon as HQ Trivia came out, and I did not see your article until reading this comment. A few other comments on this thread show that others (e.g. https://github.com/nbclark/hqcheat/ ) also implemented very similar techniques, so it seems that this may just be a "great minds think ali…

Thanks for the kind words! I feel bad for accusing you of plagerism based on just structure itself. It was a completely impulsive reaction.

Re: I wrote a script that wins the majority of HQ Trivia games

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Post by applecrazy »

ampersandy wrote: post #45
applecrazy wrote: post #19

This article practically rips off my article as well as an article I cited in that post, which I submitted earlier this week. If you put both articles side-by-side, they have the same structure and a fairly similar approach to the problem. While this could be a coincidence (and honestly, I don’t care), I’m still a little miffed that the author didn’t bother to cite his inspiration. The post in question: https://apple…

It seems you do care, since you've commented twice now claiming the author has ripped off your work, without any evidence whatsoever. Perhaps you should contact them privately if you feel that you've been wronged here? Publicly claiming someone has ripped off your work is a pretty strong allegation and I don't see any basis for it. If a problem can be summarized in a few simple steps, then how different do you expect…

I thought about it and I’m clearly in the wrong. See my response to the post author in this thread.
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