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  "id": 9479,
  "title": "Running this using KXEN",
  "url": "/competitions/acquire-valued-shoppers-challenge/discussion/9479",
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  "post_date": "2014-06-16T13:06:39.117Z",
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  "content": "<p>hello all, a newbie here. Is anyone running this model off KXEN? Was hoping to generate a discussion here on it.</p>",
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      "id": "49197",
      "postDate": "06/16/2014 13:06:39",
      "content": "<p>hello all, a newbie here. Is anyone running this model off KXEN? Was hoping to generate a discussion here on it.</p>",
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      "postDate": "06/16/2014 14:48:34",
      "content": "<p>I played a little with it, but more for getting a feeling of the data. I do not really see a point in creating a good model with KXen (which I think will always be way better than the ones I write from scratch once a model using the whole power of KXen has been made). The reason I think it is pointless is in the rules, if you happen to be in the top 3 this applies (taken from https://www.kaggle.com/c/acquire-valued-shoppers-challenge/rules):<br><br><em>As a condition of receipt of the Prize, the Prize winner must deliver the final model&#8217;s software code as used to generate the winning Submission and associated documentation (consistent with the winning model documentation template available on the kaggle wiki at https://www.kaggle.com/wiki/WinningModelDocumentationTemplate) to the Competition Sponsor. The delivered software code must be capable of generating the winning Submission and contain a description of resources required to build and/or run the executable code successfully.</em></p>\n\n<p>But if you wanna try it with KXen anyway, I guess I can give some input to a discussion</p>",
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      "author_name": "sandros",
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      "post_date": "06/16/2014 14:48:34",
      "content": "<p>I played a little with it, but more for getting a feeling of the data. I do not really see a point in creating a good model with KXen (which I think will always be way better than the ones I write from scratch once a model using the whole power of KXen has been made). The reason I think it is pointless is in the rules, if you happen to be in the top 3 this applies (taken from https://www.kaggle.com/c/acquire-valued-shoppers-challenge/rules):<br><br><em>As a condition of receipt of the Prize, the Prize winner must deliver the final model&#8217;s software code as used to generate the winning Submission and associated documentation (consistent with the winning model documentation template available on the kaggle wiki at https://www.kaggle.com/wiki/WinningModelDocumentationTemplate) to the Competition Sponsor. The delivered software code must be capable of generating the winning Submission and contain a description of resources required to build and/or run the executable code successfully.</em></p>\n\n<p>But if you wanna try it with KXen anyway, I guess I can give some input to a discussion</p>",
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