irwin VS kaggle-environments

For Lichess, you can get some sort of idea from reading the code. If I remember correctly, there's some threshold for the site suspecting you of cheating based on a variety of simple metrics (accuracy, blurring, etc) and then it gets sent to machine learning tools to analyze (here is one of them, and here's another).

Lichess is open source. Here is their anti-cheating code on github: https://github.com/clarkerubber/irwin

Yeah Irwin is the old lichess model - here (https://github.com/clarkerubber/irwin) as well as the more maintained fork (https://github.com/lakinwecker/irwin/commits/master)

This is nonsense. They’re a free and open source nonprofit with no interest in commercial buyers. I’ve played on lichess for 3 years, over which time I’ve never encountered more than 1 cheater within 10 games (and normally much less than that). Because the website is open source, you can see the cheat detection they use. It’s not perfect — there is no perfect system — but it’s transparent and in my experience very good.

Isnt't lichess' cheat detection an ML based system?

What's this? It was given as an answer on a question about this on lichess https://github.com/clarkerubber/irwin

If you are interested in Data Science, you may want to look at Kaggle competitions. https://www.kaggle.com/competitions

Secondly, if you feel like you do not have enough skills or a lack of practice answering problem statements, there are a lot of good websites where you can find interesting projects. I would recommend starting participating in some Kaggle competitions or download some free Google datasets and start playing with them.

For reference: Kaggle is a Google product. You can see the list of current competitions here.

You could try Kaggle competitions, or participating in forecasting markets (as you stated) is another option. You don't need any specific skill set to be a forecaster, the rules of the bet are stipulated and from there it's just based on your ability to predict the outcome. You could also try your hand at investing in the stock market, or try and make money betting on sports games. If you're very good at this stuff I'm sure you can make a lot of money doing it. The thing to keep in mind is that generally video games are much much easier than real life

As to the specifics of your projects, that's up to you. Try browsing Kaggle; check out some of the work we have on The Pudding; check out some journalism examples to see what you can try to build on or improve.

You might want to look at kaggle competitions.