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  "id": 181321,
  "title": "Clarification question on rules",
  "url": "/competitions/conways-reverse-game-of-life-2020/discussion/181321",
  "author_name": "John Lucas",
  "post_date": "2020-09-08T12:32:07.275000",
  "votes": 5,
  "comment_count": 2,
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  "content": "<p>I wonder if I could ask for clarification on the rules? The last Kaggle contest I entered was nine years ago (before deep learning took over the world!) so I'm not that up to speed with current site etiquette.</p>\n<p>The code requirements for this contest say that freely &amp; publicly available external data is allowed, including pre-trained models. So suppose I trained a model using more CPU time than the 9 hours permitted for a notebook, and uploaded the result here (with an explanation of what it is). Would it then become publicly available data that I (and everyone else) could use in our notebooks? Or would that be against the spirit of a Code Competition?</p>",
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    {
      "id": 1002790,
      "postDate": "2020-09-08T12:32:07.277Z",
      "content": "<p>I wonder if I could ask for clarification on the rules? The last Kaggle contest I entered was nine years ago (before deep learning took over the world!) so I'm not that up to speed with current site etiquette.</p>\n<p>The code requirements for this contest say that freely &amp; publicly available external data is allowed, including pre-trained models. So suppose I trained a model using more CPU time than the 9 hours permitted for a notebook, and uploaded the result here (with an explanation of what it is). Would it then become publicly available data that I (and everyone else) could use in our notebooks? Or would that be against the spirit of a Code Competition?</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "I wonder if I could ask for clarification on the rules? The last Kaggle contest I entered was nine years ago (before deep learning took over the world!) so I'm not that up to speed with current site etiquette.\n\nThe code requirements for this contest say that freely & publicly available external data is allowed, including pre-trained models. So suppose I trained a model using more CPU time than the 9 hours permitted for a notebook, and uploaded the result here (with an explanation of what it is). Would it then become publicly available data that I (and everyone else) could use in our notebooks? Or would that be against the spirit of a Code Competition?",
      "votes": 5
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    {
      "id": 1011260,
      "postDate": "2020-09-15T10:47:26.557Z",
      "content": "<p>As long as everyone in the competition can use the data, i don't see why that should be a problem. The 9 hours limit applies only to submission notebooks.</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "As long as everyone in the competition can use the data, i don't see why that should be a problem. The 9 hours limit applies only to submission notebooks."
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      "id": 1007825,
      "postDate": "2020-09-12T14:46:25.077Z",
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    {
      "id": 1011260,
      "author_name": "Leonhard",
      "author_url": "",
      "post_date": "2020-09-15T10:47:26.557000",
      "content": "<p>As long as everyone in the competition can use the data, i don't see why that should be a problem. The 9 hours limit applies only to submission notebooks.</p>",
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      "post_date": "2020-09-12T14:46:25.077000",
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    "1002790": "I wonder if I could ask for clarification on the rules? The last Kaggle contest I entered was nine years ago (before deep learning took over the world!) so I'm not that up to speed with current site etiquette.\n\nThe code requirements for this contest say that freely & publicly available external data is allowed, including pre-trained models. So suppose I trained a model using more CPU time than the 9 hours permitted for a notebook, and uploaded the result here (with an explanation of what it is). Would it then become publicly available data that I (and everyone else) could use in our notebooks? Or would that be against the spirit of a Code Competition?",
    "1011260": "As long as everyone in the competition can use the data, i don't see why that should be a problem. The 9 hours limit applies only to submission notebooks.",
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