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by 75dvtwin 2351 days ago
Main cheater identified as Pavel Pleskov.

According to this presentation

https://www.slideshare.net/DataFestTbilisi/how-to-win-a-mach...

He worked at H2O.ai (but I think he was now fired). Prior to that (again according to the above).

    - Master of Science from Moscow State university
    - New economics school (Moscow)
    - Financial Consultant
    - Quantitative Researcher
    - HFT Fund partner
Overall seems to be impressive track, this is the type of track that often mentioned on HN, the top firms would hire from...

Completely not clear why he needed to cheat, are there other sophisticated cheaters out there for these types of competitions?

May be there needs to be prises for 'checking' other peoples work..?