{
  "id": 24999,
  "title": "Worth Entering Competition With Leak",
  "url": "/competitions/bosch-production-line-performance/discussion/24999",
  "author_name": "",
  "post_date": "2016-11-02T00:35:24Z",
  "votes": null,
  "comment_count": 2,
  "views": 523,
  "content": "<p>Is this competition still worth trying or does the leak make it not worth entering?</p>",
  "messages": [
    {
      "id": "142397",
      "postDate": "11/02/2016 00:35:24",
      "content": "<p>Is this competition still worth trying or does the leak make it not worth entering?</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "Is this competition still worth trying or does the leak make it not worth entering?",
      "votes": null
    },
    {
      "id": "142398",
      "postDate": "11/02/2016 00:45:14",
      "content": "<p>for this competition i learned the most stuff from my team mates instead of the competition itself. i don't want to argue it is a leak or not. Processing this large dataset is very challenging for me if you put a constrain on the RAM.  so i think the most take away from this competition is \n1.processing dataset with many columns with efficient memory management in R or python\n2.some experience with this new metrics </p>\n\n<p>P.S thank you for sharing your code in telstra competition :)</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "for this competition i learned the most stuff from my team mates instead of the competition itself. i don't want to argue it is a leak or not. Processing this large dataset is very challenging for me if you put a constrain on the RAM.  so i think the most take away from this competition is \r\n1.processing dataset with many columns with efficient memory management in R or python\r\n2.some experience with this new metrics \r\n\r\nP.S thank you for sharing your code in telstra competition :)",
      "votes": null
    },
    {
      "id": "142410",
      "postDate": "11/02/2016 05:07:42",
      "content": "<p>It depends on what you're trying to get out of it... if you're after a gold medal you probably need to join one of the top 20 teams - there's only two soloists in the top 12 right now.  </p>\n\n<p>The leak/'data property' changes it, but it's not a breaker IMO if you utilize it.  There's a .4 script out there now for starters...</p>\n\n<p>The next competition ending is going to be at least two weeks after this one (Melborne is listed as 10 days behind this right now, but a reset with a new test set is coming next week...) so the opportunity cost is relatively low.</p>\n\n<p>I dunno if I'll reach a silver myself, but I'll try :)</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "It depends on what you're trying to get out of it... if you're after a gold medal you probably need to join one of the top 20 teams - there's only two soloists in the top 12 right now.  \r\n\r\nThe leak/'data property' changes it, but it's not a breaker IMO if you utilize it.  There's a .4 script out there now for starters...\r\n\r\nThe next competition ending is going to be at least two weeks after this one (Melborne is listed as 10 days behind this right now, but a reset with a new test set is coming next week...) so the opportunity cost is relatively low.\r\n\r\nI dunno if I'll reach a silver myself, but I'll try :)",
      "votes": null
    }
  ],
  "comments": [
    {
      "id": 142398,
      "author_name": "lishubin",
      "author_url": "",
      "post_date": "11/02/2016 00:45:14",
      "content": "<p>for this competition i learned the most stuff from my team mates instead of the competition itself. i don't want to argue it is a leak or not. Processing this large dataset is very challenging for me if you put a constrain on the RAM.  so i think the most take away from this competition is \n1.processing dataset with many columns with efficient memory management in R or python\n2.some experience with this new metrics </p>\n\n<p>P.S thank you for sharing your code in telstra competition :)</p>",
      "votes": null,
      "replies": []
    },
    {
      "id": 142410,
      "author_name": "happycube",
      "author_url": "",
      "post_date": "11/02/2016 05:07:42",
      "content": "<p>It depends on what you're trying to get out of it... if you're after a gold medal you probably need to join one of the top 20 teams - there's only two soloists in the top 12 right now.  </p>\n\n<p>The leak/'data property' changes it, but it's not a breaker IMO if you utilize it.  There's a .4 script out there now for starters...</p>\n\n<p>The next competition ending is going to be at least two weeks after this one (Melborne is listed as 10 days behind this right now, but a reset with a new test set is coming next week...) so the opportunity cost is relatively low.</p>\n\n<p>I dunno if I'll reach a silver myself, but I'll try :)</p>",
      "votes": null,
      "replies": []
    }
  ],
  "raw_markdown_by_id": {
    "142397": "Is this competition still worth trying or does the leak make it not worth entering?",
    "142398": "for this competition i learned the most stuff from my team mates instead of the competition itself. i don't want to argue it is a leak or not. Processing this large dataset is very challenging for me if you put a constrain on the RAM.  so i think the most take away from this competition is \r\n1.processing dataset with many columns with efficient memory management in R or python\r\n2.some experience with this new metrics \r\n\r\nP.S thank you for sharing your code in telstra competition :)",
    "142410": "It depends on what you're trying to get out of it... if you're after a gold medal you probably need to join one of the top 20 teams - there's only two soloists in the top 12 right now.  \r\n\r\nThe leak/'data property' changes it, but it's not a breaker IMO if you utilize it.  There's a .4 script out there now for starters...\r\n\r\nThe next competition ending is going to be at least two weeks after this one (Melborne is listed as 10 days behind this right now, but a reset with a new test set is coming next week...) so the opportunity cost is relatively low.\r\n\r\nI dunno if I'll reach a silver myself, but I'll try :)"
  },
  "source": "meta"
}