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Dinner Invitation

Hi. We spent $12k of our investor's capital on dinners for Tuesday and Thursday. Answer the challenges below without AI and you'll get an invite.

What's your name?

What's your phone number?

Reflect on your progression at some craft that you've invested serious time in (programming, sports, debating, etc). How did you change the way you did it overtime as you improved? What are the feedback mechanisms for learning in this domain and what are their caveats? Tell us what percentile of skill you place in for this activity against other serious practitioners. Why not higher or lower? What's preventing you from climbing higher?

There are 100 prisoners and a room with 100 boxes, each box contains a slip of paper with a unique number from 1 to 100. Each prisoner is assigned a unique number from 1 to 100. The prisoners enter the room one at a time. Each prisoner can open up to 50 boxes. They cannot communicate with other prisoners in any way during this process. If every prisoner finds their number, all prisoners go free. If any prisoner fails, none of them can go free. Before the process begins, the prisoners are allowed to confer and agree on a strategy. What is the optimal strategy? As a bonus, what are the optimal odds of success? Show your work and thought process