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  "id": 1223,
  "title": "Submission format/feedback help, please?",
  "url": "/competitions/AlgorithmicTradingChallenge/discussion/1223",
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  "post_date": "2012-01-04T20:25:59.727Z",
  "votes": 1,
  "comment_count": 5,
  "views": 5312,
  "content": "<p>I made my first two subs today.</p>\r\n<p>The first one choked because my newlines were '0A' terminations instead of the text file '0D0A' and I'd put spaces behind the commas for readability.&nbsp; Had to open both the sample linear sub and my own file in a hex editor to see the newline problem, so I\r\n changed the output program, and as far as I can tell, the format of my file and the example similar EXCEPT that I use 4 decimals on all prices, and the prices are NOT rounded to the quotation quantum.&nbsp; Both submission files open well under excel, by the way.&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p>It would really help to have an exact description of what works and what does not.&nbsp; Am I allowed to have a high precision answer?&nbsp; Can it be in a continuous range or must I round off my prices to the closest penny or half-penny?&nbsp; Time is running out I can't\r\n afford trial and error.</p>\r\n<p>Neither of my subs see a return screen, I have to reload; the first submission returned the message &quot;use a csv or zip file format&quot;, as I said, I fixed the newlines.&nbsp;&nbsp; The second file returned the following cryptic error message: &quot;<span style=\"font-size:x-small\">We've\r\n run a quick competition, and found </span><span style=\"font-size:x-small\">no meaningful pages in your URL</span><span style=\"font-size:x-small\">&nbsp;dataset.&quot;</span></p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:x-small\">It would really be nice to get credited 2 submissions, or at least, not have submissions counted until AFTER the parsing is successful.</span></p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:x-small\">Thank you!</span></p>",
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      "postDate": "01/04/2012 20:25:59",
      "content": "<p>I made my first two subs today.</p>\r\n<p>The first one choked because my newlines were '0A' terminations instead of the text file '0D0A' and I'd put spaces behind the commas for readability.&nbsp; Had to open both the sample linear sub and my own file in a hex editor to see the newline problem, so I\r\n changed the output program, and as far as I can tell, the format of my file and the example similar EXCEPT that I use 4 decimals on all prices, and the prices are NOT rounded to the quotation quantum.&nbsp; Both submission files open well under excel, by the way.&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p>It would really help to have an exact description of what works and what does not.&nbsp; Am I allowed to have a high precision answer?&nbsp; Can it be in a continuous range or must I round off my prices to the closest penny or half-penny?&nbsp; Time is running out I can't\r\n afford trial and error.</p>\r\n<p>Neither of my subs see a return screen, I have to reload; the first submission returned the message &quot;use a csv or zip file format&quot;, as I said, I fixed the newlines.&nbsp;&nbsp; The second file returned the following cryptic error message: &quot;<span style=\"font-size:x-small\">We've\r\n run a quick competition, and found </span><span style=\"font-size:x-small\">no meaningful pages in your URL</span><span style=\"font-size:x-small\">&nbsp;dataset.&quot;</span></p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:x-small\">It would really be nice to get credited 2 submissions, or at least, not have submissions counted until AFTER the parsing is successful.</span></p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:x-small\">Thank you!</span></p>",
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      "id": "7675",
      "postDate": "01/04/2012 22:57:56",
      "content": "<p>Sorry for the difficulties. &nbsp;For this competition, valid submission values are real-valued numbers in the interval (0,8000). &nbsp;I see two submissions from you, which show a public score of 1.61865 and no error messages. &nbsp;Please let me know whether this is\r\n correct and if you run into any other difficulties.</p>",
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      "id": "7684",
      "postDate": "01/05/2012 08:34:26",
      "content": "<p>I'm good now, TY!&nbsp; I guess the upload is long enough that the feedback screen timed out, hence the weird message</p>",
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    {
      "id": "7686",
      "postDate": "01/05/2012 14:34:53",
      "content": "<p>You can also upload a compressed version of your submission. Kaggle will uncompress it for you :-)</p>",
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      "id": "7697",
      "postDate": "01/05/2012 23:17:26",
      "content": "<p>I'm maybe NOT getting the upload to work properly after all. I submitted another two files today, from an entirely different algorithm as yesterday, and important differences from yesterday's files, infact the RMS difference is 1.80. Yet all my submissions\r\n (yesterday and today) have exactly the same RMSE. Could you check the file names? Yesterday's should be twice &quot;SubmissionA.csv&quot; and today's &quot;SubmissionB.csv&quot; and &quot;SubmissionC.csv&quot;. file B was submitted as csv and file C as ZIP file (compressed by winrar).\r\n<br>\r\nIn ALL my submissions, I can see the time update on the leaderboard, but never a feedback screen. The submission screen stays on when I clisk &quot;submit&quot;, for over 30 mins. Also, the message on the leaderboard is weird, e.g., today: 101 new teaserebotier •teaserebotier\r\n 1.61865 4 Thu, 05 Jan 2012 22:57:50 (-27.8h) seems to indicate the correct GMT date and time of my last submission, but the 27.8h corresponds to what? The time since my last submission? if so, it is wrongly computed from yesterday's instead of from my first\r\n of today. Please advise, TY!</p>",
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      "id": "7770",
      "postDate": "01/08/2012 22:30:32",
      "content": "<p>trying to make my last 2 subs for 90 minutes now. I guess its upload overload time. Where are your servers?</p>",
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      "id": 7675,
      "author_name": "benhamner",
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      "post_date": "01/04/2012 22:57:56",
      "content": "<p>Sorry for the difficulties. &nbsp;For this competition, valid submission values are real-valued numbers in the interval (0,8000). &nbsp;I see two submissions from you, which show a public score of 1.61865 and no error messages. &nbsp;Please let me know whether this is\r\n correct and if you run into any other difficulties.</p>",
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      "id": 7684,
      "author_name": "teaserebotier",
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      "post_date": "01/05/2012 08:34:26",
      "content": "<p>I'm good now, TY!&nbsp; I guess the upload is long enough that the feedback screen timed out, hence the weird message</p>",
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      "id": 7686,
      "author_name": "ahassaine",
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      "post_date": "01/05/2012 14:34:53",
      "content": "<p>You can also upload a compressed version of your submission. Kaggle will uncompress it for you :-)</p>",
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      "id": 7697,
      "author_name": "teaserebotier",
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      "post_date": "01/05/2012 23:17:26",
      "content": "<p>I'm maybe NOT getting the upload to work properly after all. I submitted another two files today, from an entirely different algorithm as yesterday, and important differences from yesterday's files, infact the RMS difference is 1.80. Yet all my submissions\r\n (yesterday and today) have exactly the same RMSE. Could you check the file names? Yesterday's should be twice &quot;SubmissionA.csv&quot; and today's &quot;SubmissionB.csv&quot; and &quot;SubmissionC.csv&quot;. file B was submitted as csv and file C as ZIP file (compressed by winrar).\r\n<br>\r\nIn ALL my submissions, I can see the time update on the leaderboard, but never a feedback screen. The submission screen stays on when I clisk &quot;submit&quot;, for over 30 mins. Also, the message on the leaderboard is weird, e.g., today: 101 new teaserebotier •teaserebotier\r\n 1.61865 4 Thu, 05 Jan 2012 22:57:50 (-27.8h) seems to indicate the correct GMT date and time of my last submission, but the 27.8h corresponds to what? The time since my last submission? if so, it is wrongly computed from yesterday's instead of from my first\r\n of today. Please advise, TY!</p>",
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      "id": 7770,
      "author_name": "teaserebotier",
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      "post_date": "01/08/2012 22:30:32",
      "content": "<p>trying to make my last 2 subs for 90 minutes now. I guess its upload overload time. Where are your servers?</p>",
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