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      "content": "\r\n\t<!-- Begin Base Rules -->\r\n    <h3>One account per participant</h3>\r\n    <p>You cannot sign up to Kaggle from multiple accounts and therefore you cannot submit from multiple accounts.</p>\r\n    <h3>No private sharing outside teams</h3>\r\n    <p>\r\n        Privately sharing code or data outside of teams is not permitted.\r\n        It's okay to share code if made available to all participants on the forums.\r\n    </p>\r\n    <h3>Public dissemination of entries</h3>\r\n    <p>Kaggle and the competition host have the right to publicly disseminate any entries or models.</p>\r\n    <h3>Open licensing of winners</h3>\r\n    <p>\r\n        Winning solutions need to be made available under\r\n        <a href=\"http://opensource.org/licenses\">a popular OSI-approved license</a>\r\n        in order to be eligible for recognition and prize money.\r\n    </p>\r\n    <h3>Winning solutions must be posted or linked to in the forums.</h3>\r\n    <p>\r\n        Prizes will be awarded after the winners have posted their solutions to the competition forum.\r\n        Winners must post or link to their solutions within seven (7) days of being notified of their winning status.\r\n    </p>\r\n    <h3>Team Mergers</h3>\r\n    <p>\r\n        Team mergers are allowed and can be performed by the team leader. In order to merge, the combined team must have a total submission count less than or equal to the maximum allowed as of the merge date. The maximum allowed is the number of submissions per day multiplied by the number of days the competition has been running.<br/>\r\n    </p>\r\n\r\n    <h3>Team Limits</h3>\r\n    <p>There is no maximum team size.</p>\r\n    <h3>Submission Limits</h3>\r\n    <p>You may submit a maximum of 2 entries per day.</p>\r\n    <p>You may select up to 5 final submissions for judging.</p>\r\n    <h3>Competition Timeline</h3>\r\n    <p>Start Date: <strong>4/12/2013 11:11 PM UTC</strong></p>\r\n    <p>Merger Deadline: <strong>None</strong></p>\r\n    <p>Entry Deadline: <strong>None</strong></p>\r\n    <p>End Date: <strong>5/24/2013 11:59 PM UTC</strong></p>\r\n\t<!-- End Base Rules -->\r\n<p>You must release your code under a&nbsp;<a href=\"http://opensource.org/licenses\">popular OSI-approved license</a>&nbsp;in order to be eligible for prize money.</p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.4em;\">The organization will not claim any intellectual property from the winning team.&nbsp;</span></p>\r\n<p><span>People affiliated with Google and with Universit&eacute; de Montr&eacute;al may enter the contest, but no one who participated in the creation of the dataset may do so. People affiliated with Google are not eligible for prize money. People involved in the creation of the dataset are forbidden to give any advice regarding the contest to any of the competitors. In particular, no one who knows what the original data source was may enter the contest.</span></p>\r\n<p>Do not attempt to reverse-engineer the file format in order to determine the source of the data. Solutions that can't be described without reference to knowledge of the original data format will be disqualified.&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p><span>You do not need to use a representation learning algorithm. If you think you can hand-design features for an unknown data domain fast enough to win the contest, you are encouraged to try. However, your final system must be able to autonomously classify the test data without a human in the loop.</span></p>\r\n<p>We will unveil the nature of the dataset after the competition ends.</p>",
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      "content": "<p><span>This is a black-box learning challenge: Competitors train a classifier on a dataset that is not human readable, without knowledge of what the data consists of. They are scored based on classification accuracy on a private test set. This challenge is designed to reduce the usefulness of having a human researcher working in the loop with the training algorithm.</span></p>\r\n<p>We are also providing a dataset of approx. 130,000 unsupervised examples that contestants can use to improve their models. The unsupervised data is a CSV file in the same format as the private test set (i.e. without the labels). The extra data comes from a distribution that is very similar to the training/test set distribution.</p>\r\n<p>We provide example code for this contest as part of the pylearn2 package at <a href=\"https://github.com/lisa-lab/pylearn2\"> https://github.com/lisa-lab/pylearn2</a></p>\r\n<p>For this contest, look at the pylearn2/scripts/icml_2013_wrepl/black_box directory.</p>",
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      "content": "<p>Multi-class classification accuracy will be used to judge the submissions. &nbsp;<span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">Note that to be scored correctly your submission file should refer to the classes as \"1.0\" through \"9.0\". If you enter a different string such as \"0.0\" or \"2\", you will not receive credit for that example.</span></p>\r\n<p></p>\r\n<p>We have migrated the competition to the new parser. We now expect a csv file instead of a single column txt file with columns Id and Class. Id is a sequence of numbers from 1 to 10000. And we now expect classes without the decimal part \"1\" through \"9\".</p>",
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      "content": "<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p>The data consists of 1,875 input features for each example. Each example is assigned to one of 9 classes. The training set consists of 1,000 labeled examples. The test set consists of 10,000 examples, split into 5,000 public test and 5,000 private test. The extra data download (available as a .csv file compressed into a .tgz archive) provides an additional 135,735 unlabeled examples that your training algorithm may exploit.</p>\r\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">Note that to be scored correctly your submission file should refer to the classes as \"1.0\" through \"9.0\". If you enter a different string such as \"0.0\" or \"2\", you will receive zero points for that example.</span></p>\r\n<p>We have migrated the competition to the new parser. We now expect a csv file instead of a single column txt file with columns Id and Class. Id is a sequence of numbers from 1 to 10000. And we now expect classes without the decimal part \"1\" through \"9\".</p>",
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      "content": "<div><strong>Competition Timeframe</strong></div>\r\n<ul>\r\n<li><strong>Friday, April 12, 2013</strong><strong>:&nbsp;</strong>Competition launched</li>\r\n<li><strong>Friday, May 24, 2013 (11:59PM UTC)</strong><span>: Deadline to make your final submission</span></li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<p>&nbsp;<strong>Post-Competition Wrapup</strong></p>\r\n<ul>\r\n<li><strong>Friday,&nbsp;May 31, 2013</strong>: Deadline for preliminary winners to release code and methods.&nbsp;As specified in the competition rules, you must release your code under a&nbsp;<a href=\"http://opensource.org/licenses\">popular OSI-approved license</a>&nbsp;in order to be eligible for prize money.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<p>&nbsp;<strong>Challenges in&nbsp;Representation Learning ICML 2013 Workshop</strong></p>\r\n<ul>\r\n<li><strong>Friday, May 31, 2013</strong>: Deadline to submit workshop papers with competition results</li>\r\n<li><strong>Thursday, June 20 or Friday, June 21, 2013</strong>: Workshop and winnner presentation</li>\r\n</ul>",
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      "content": "<p>This contest is associated with the ICML 2013 Workshop on Representation Learning.</p>\r\n<p>First prize: $350 and an invitation to speak at the workshop.</p>\r\n<p>Second prize: $150</p>\r\n<p>We encourage submission of papers to the <a href=\"http://deeplearning.net/icml2013-workshop-competition/\"> workshop</a>. Scientifically interesting papers will be accepted regardless of performance in the contest.</p>\r\n<p>The funding for the prizes was generously provided by Google, Inc.</p>",
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