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  "id": 2916,
  "title": "Is it possible the sponsor release the testing data after competition?",
  "url": "/competitions/MerckActivity/discussion/2916",
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  "post_date": "2012-10-17T17:32:52.157Z",
  "votes": null,
  "comment_count": 3,
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  "content": "<p>So that we losers can continue working on this and learn new techniques.</p>\r\n<p>I know some other competitions release the final testing data set for ppl that are still interested in using the data for improved algorithm development.</p>",
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    {
      "id": "15843",
      "postDate": "10/17/2012 17:32:52",
      "content": "<p>So that we losers can continue working on this and learn new techniques.</p>\r\n<p>I know some other competitions release the final testing data set for ppl that are still interested in using the data for improved algorithm development.</p>",
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    {
      "id": "16019",
      "postDate": "10/21/2012 02:04:23",
      "content": "<p>exactly, i second this.</p>",
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    {
      "id": "16041",
      "postDate": "10/21/2012 16:51:15",
      "content": "<p>You can always make more submissions after the contest is closed.</p>\r\n<p>Releasing the test data does not suddenly enable new techniques. In fact, it mostly just allows you to overfit even more data.</p>",
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    {
      "id": "16659",
      "postDate": "11/06/2012 20:22:48",
      "content": "<p>That is exactly what I meant. As long as I can continue to submit the results and test against the un-seen data, that would be good. I initially thought once the competition is closed, we no longer able to work on new submissions.</p>",
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    {
      "id": 16019,
      "author_name": "shinedark",
      "author_url": "",
      "post_date": "10/21/2012 02:04:23",
      "content": "<p>exactly, i second this.</p>",
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    {
      "id": 16041,
      "author_name": "biasvariance",
      "author_url": "",
      "post_date": "10/21/2012 16:51:15",
      "content": "<p>You can always make more submissions after the contest is closed.</p>\r\n<p>Releasing the test data does not suddenly enable new techniques. In fact, it mostly just allows you to overfit even more data.</p>",
      "votes": null,
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    },
    {
      "id": 16659,
      "author_name": "oloolo",
      "author_url": "",
      "post_date": "11/06/2012 20:22:48",
      "content": "<p>That is exactly what I meant. As long as I can continue to submit the results and test against the un-seen data, that would be good. I initially thought once the competition is closed, we no longer able to work on new submissions.</p>",
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