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  "title": "Effort",
  "url": "/competitions/SemiSupervisedFeatureLearning/discussion/887",
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  "post_date": "2011-09-27T16:54:18.223Z",
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  "content": "<p>Sorry to be critical, but this task requires quite a lot of effort. You need to manipulate the massive data file, find the best reduction, execute perl, then train SVM using another language you might never have used and then document everything, in less\r\n than a month.</p>\r\n<p>It would be really nice if the whole process could be run in one system.</p>",
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      "postDate": "09/27/2011 16:54:18",
      "content": "<p>Sorry to be critical, but this task requires quite a lot of effort. You need to manipulate the massive data file, find the best reduction, execute perl, then train SVM using another language you might never have used and then document everything, in less\r\n than a month.</p>\r\n<p>It would be really nice if the whole process could be run in one system.</p>",
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      "postDate": "09/27/2011 17:47:24",
      "content": "<p>The contest has also a very Unix Software Engineering like smell around it. It can be my problem, but it's all hard to get into compared to other competitions.</p>",
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      "postDate": "09/27/2011 17:48:11",
      "content": "<p>Hi Dirk,</p>\r\n<p>Thanks for your thoughts. It would have been great to run a longer competition, but that wasn't possible due to the short window between the time the NIPS workshop was announced and the deadline for the results.</p>\r\n<p>We've tried to put together a useful set of scripts and examples to help folks get started, and have also tried picking the most widely used SVM packages that are available across many platforms.</p>\r\n<p>If there are other scripts that would be helpful to have, let us know and we'll see what we can provide.</p>",
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      "postDate": "09/27/2011 19:39:19",
      "content": "<p>Would it be helpful if the data files were also provided in MATLAB's sparse data format?</p>",
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      "content": "<p>yes that would be helpful if possible. </p>",
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      "postDate": "09/28/2011 17:41:07",
      "content": "<p>Okay, we've posted a set of files specifically for MATLAB users, matlab<em>format</em>data.tgz. This contains versions of the data files listed above, but does not include the scripts. The large, sparse data files are in MATLAB's sparse data format.</p>",
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      "author_name": "wkapenga",
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      "post_date": "09/27/2011 17:47:24",
      "content": "<p>The contest has also a very Unix Software Engineering like smell around it. It can be my problem, but it's all hard to get into compared to other competitions.</p>",
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      "author_name": "argv",
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      "post_date": "09/27/2011 17:48:11",
      "content": "<p>Hi Dirk,</p>\r\n<p>Thanks for your thoughts. It would have been great to run a longer competition, but that wasn't possible due to the short window between the time the NIPS workshop was announced and the deadline for the results.</p>\r\n<p>We've tried to put together a useful set of scripts and examples to help folks get started, and have also tried picking the most widely used SVM packages that are available across many platforms.</p>\r\n<p>If there are other scripts that would be helpful to have, let us know and we'll see what we can provide.</p>",
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      "author_name": "argv",
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      "post_date": "09/27/2011 19:39:19",
      "content": "<p>Would it be helpful if the data files were also provided in MATLAB's sparse data format?</p>",
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      "post_date": "09/28/2011 05:32:47",
      "content": "<p>yes that would be helpful if possible. </p>",
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      "content": "<p>Okay, we've posted a set of files specifically for MATLAB users, matlab<em>format</em>data.tgz. This contains versions of the data files listed above, but does not include the scripts. The large, sparse data files are in MATLAB's sparse data format.</p>",
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