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  "id": 4129,
  "title": "Welcome",
  "url": "/competitions/cause-effect-pairs/discussion/4129",
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  "post_date": "2013-03-29T07:30:10.110Z",
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  "content": "<p>We're very excited to launch the Cause-Effect Pairs challenge, our third with <a href=\"https://www.kaggle.com/users/381/isabelle\">\r\nIsabelle Guyon</a> and <a href=\"http://www.chalearn.org/\">ChaLearn</a>!</p>\r\n<p>Sample MATLAB code is available from the download page, and I've created a <a href=\"https://github.com/benhamner/CauseEffectPairsChallenge\">\r\nquick python benchmark</a> to help those without expensive MATLAB licenses get started.</p>\r\n<p>Isabelle will be available on the forums to talk about the data and problem formulation.</p>\r\n<p>Good luck on the contest, and please let us know if you have any questions!</p>",
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      "id": "21800",
      "postDate": "03/29/2013 07:30:10",
      "content": "<p>We're very excited to launch the Cause-Effect Pairs challenge, our third with <a href=\"https://www.kaggle.com/users/381/isabelle\">\r\nIsabelle Guyon</a> and <a href=\"http://www.chalearn.org/\">ChaLearn</a>!</p>\r\n<p>Sample MATLAB code is available from the download page, and I've created a <a href=\"https://github.com/benhamner/CauseEffectPairsChallenge\">\r\nquick python benchmark</a> to help those without expensive MATLAB licenses get started.</p>\r\n<p>Isabelle will be available on the forums to talk about the data and problem formulation.</p>\r\n<p>Good luck on the contest, and please let us know if you have any questions!</p>",
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      "id": "23199",
      "postDate": "04/19/2013 19:43:04",
      "content": "<p>Ben - Thanks so much for the benchmark.</p>\r\n<p>Can I ask you to post the correct score for your &quot;quick python benchmark&quot; submission file? I've never coded an ROC AUC and it would be nice for some of us to confirm that our code works!</p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;***UPDATED***</p>\r\n<p>Wait - Your benchmark is produced using the validation data-&nbsp; I guess you can't share that target vector...&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>",
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      "id": 23199,
      "author_name": "feloniouspunk",
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      "post_date": "04/19/2013 19:43:04",
      "content": "<p>Ben - Thanks so much for the benchmark.</p>\r\n<p>Can I ask you to post the correct score for your &quot;quick python benchmark&quot; submission file? I've never coded an ROC AUC and it would be nice for some of us to confirm that our code works!</p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;***UPDATED***</p>\r\n<p>Wait - Your benchmark is produced using the validation data-&nbsp; I guess you can't share that target vector...&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>",
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