SnitchSeeker.com - View Single Post - North American wizarding school Ilvermorny's 4 Sorting Houses reportedly revealed

TigerC10 · 05-09-2016, 05:11 AM

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Originally Posted by Steelsheen

lolz they are soooo gonna start securing the pages man

anything more you can tease out of it before they lock that thing down into Fort Knox?

This all started out as an attempt to write an AI with a machine learning algorithm that can reverse engineer the sorting quiz and the wand quiz so that people can "preview" their answers to see what house they get assigned. I saw the unused code while I doing research on how I might make a browser extension to slurp up the answers.

Anyway, I was able to hit the API to get all of the questions/possible answers from the existing quizes. I got an empty response from the API for the Ilvermorny. Empty response sounds like it might be a dead end, but not to a web programmer like me. Ordinarily, I'd expect a "not found" response. So, this means they're probably ready to launch the quiz - just need to add a few things to the database powering the site to open it up to everyone.

As soon as they add the questions to the database, then I can hit the API and get all of the questions and possible answers. Unfortunately, without a few hundred people filling out the quizes and giving me their answers - I can't train the AI to guess the house correctly.

But at least we could get the questions.

EDIT:
Also, who wants to bet some butthurt programmer decides to swing a ban hammer at my account on Pottermore? lol

05-09-2016, 05:11 AM	#16 (permalink)
TigerC10 Flobberworm Join Date: May 2016 Posts: 12	Quote: Originally Posted by Steelsheen lolz they are soooo gonna start securing the pages man anything more you can tease out of it before they lock that thing down into Fort Knox? This all started out as an attempt to write an AI with a machine learning algorithm that can reverse engineer the sorting quiz and the wand quiz so that people can "preview" their answers to see what house they get assigned. I saw the unused code while I doing research on how I might make a browser extension to slurp up the answers. Anyway, I was able to hit the API to get all of the questions/possible answers from the existing quizes. I got an empty response from the API for the Ilvermorny. Empty response sounds like it might be a dead end, but not to a web programmer like me. Ordinarily, I'd expect a "not found" response. So, this means they're probably ready to launch the quiz - just need to add a few things to the database powering the site to open it up to everyone. As soon as they add the questions to the database, then I can hit the API and get all of the questions and possible answers. Unfortunately, without a few hundred people filling out the quizes and giving me their answers - I can't train the AI to guess the house correctly. But at least we could get the questions. EDIT: Also, who wants to bet some butthurt programmer decides to swing a ban hammer at my account on Pottermore? lol Last edited by TigerC10; 05-09-2016 at 05:31 AM.