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  "id": 113703,
  "title": "Practice on the rehosted prior competition from 1993",
  "url": "/competitions/ashrae-energy-prediction/discussion/113703",
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  "post_date": "2019-10-21T15:37:14.785901300Z",
  "votes": 8,
  "comment_count": 2,
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  "content": "<p>As <a href=\"https://www.kaggle.com/c/ashrae-energy-prediction/overview/prior-competitions\">discussed here</a>, this competition is the third in a series. We've rehosted <a href=\"https://www.kaggle.com/c/great-energy-predictor-shootout-i/data\">the first one here</a> just for fun. It was a sizeable dataset for the time, but that was also back in 1993! We've also hosted copies of the papers that were published based on that competition.</p>",
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      "id": "654210",
      "postDate": "10/21/2019 15:37:14",
      "content": "<p>As <a href=\"https://www.kaggle.com/c/ashrae-energy-prediction/overview/prior-competitions\">discussed here</a>, this competition is the third in a series. We've rehosted <a href=\"https://www.kaggle.com/c/great-energy-predictor-shootout-i/data\">the first one here</a> just for fun. It was a sizeable dataset for the time, but that was also back in 1993! We've also hosted copies of the papers that were published based on that competition.</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "As [discussed here](https://www.kaggle.com/c/ashrae-energy-prediction/overview/prior-competitions), this competition is the third in a series. We've rehosted [the first one here](https://www.kaggle.com/c/great-energy-predictor-shootout-i/data) just for fun. It was a sizeable dataset for the time, but that was also back in 1993! We've also hosted copies of the papers that were published based on that competition.",
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      "postDate": "11/01/2019 20:05:28",
      "content": "<p>Interesting! What was the dominant technique used in the 1993 competition? SVMs or were people already experimenting with ensembling of decision tree models? Or was it something else completely?</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "Interesting! What was the dominant technique used in the 1993 competition? SVMs or were people already experimenting with ensembling of decision tree models? Or was it something else completely?",
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      "id": "663331",
      "postDate": "11/01/2019 20:14:48",
      "content": "<p>I'm not familiar with the details of the outcome, but I would expect that the resulting papers (posted to <a href=\"https://www.kaggle.com/c/great-energy-predictor-shootout-i/data\">https://www.kaggle.com/c/great-energy-predictor-shootout-i/data</a>) have more information.</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "I'm not familiar with the details of the outcome, but I would expect that the resulting papers (posted to https://www.kaggle.com/c/great-energy-predictor-shootout-i/data) have more information.",
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    {
      "id": 663324,
      "author_name": "carlolepelaars",
      "author_url": "",
      "post_date": "11/01/2019 20:05:28",
      "content": "<p>Interesting! What was the dominant technique used in the 1993 competition? SVMs or were people already experimenting with ensembling of decision tree models? Or was it something else completely?</p>",
      "votes": null,
      "replies": [
        {
          "id": 663331,
          "author_name": "sohier",
          "author_url": "",
          "post_date": "11/01/2019 20:14:48",
          "content": "<p>I'm not familiar with the details of the outcome, but I would expect that the resulting papers (posted to <a href=\"https://www.kaggle.com/c/great-energy-predictor-shootout-i/data\">https://www.kaggle.com/c/great-energy-predictor-shootout-i/data</a>) have more information.</p>",
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        }
      ]
    }
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    "654210": "As [discussed here](https://www.kaggle.com/c/ashrae-energy-prediction/overview/prior-competitions), this competition is the third in a series. We've rehosted [the first one here](https://www.kaggle.com/c/great-energy-predictor-shootout-i/data) just for fun. It was a sizeable dataset for the time, but that was also back in 1993! We've also hosted copies of the papers that were published based on that competition.",
    "663324": "Interesting! What was the dominant technique used in the 1993 competition? SVMs or were people already experimenting with ensembling of decision tree models? Or was it something else completely?",
    "663331": "I'm not familiar with the details of the outcome, but I would expect that the resulting papers (posted to https://www.kaggle.com/c/great-energy-predictor-shootout-i/data) have more information."
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