{
  "id": 668882,
  "title": "Question on Notebook's Submission Score",
  "url": "/competitions/csiro-biomass/discussion/668882",
  "author_name": "",
  "post_date": "2026-01-19T15:43:07.490799500Z",
  "votes": null,
  "comment_count": 1,
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  "content": "<p>I just submitted a notebook for this competition, and my score came back as -0.39. This negative score confuses me because I didn't have any negative numbers in my final output/submission csv, and I made several changes to my model that were supposed to improve my score. </p>\n<p>Does this have something to do with the scoring metric or does it suggest a problem with my own code decisions? My latest (and best) score that is normal 0.25.</p>\n<p>Any help would be much appreciated.</p>",
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      "id": "3393684",
      "postDate": "01/19/2026 15:43:07",
      "content": "<p>I just submitted a notebook for this competition, and my score came back as -0.39. This negative score confuses me because I didn't have any negative numbers in my final output/submission csv, and I made several changes to my model that were supposed to improve my score. </p>\n<p>Does this have something to do with the scoring metric or does it suggest a problem with my own code decisions? My latest (and best) score that is normal 0.25.</p>\n<p>Any help would be much appreciated.</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "I just submitted a notebook for this competition, and my score came back as -0.39. This negative score confuses me because I didn't have any negative numbers in my final output/submission csv, and I made several changes to my model that were supposed to improve my score. \n\nDoes this have something to do with the scoring metric or does it suggest a problem with my own code decisions? My latest (and best) score that is normal 0.25.\n\nAny help would be much appreciated.",
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    {
      "id": "3393703",
      "postDate": "01/19/2026 16:17:57",
      "content": "<p>The negative value indicates your model does suck :)  I believe a score of -1.48 occurs if you submit a file that just predicts the means.</p>\n<p>The changes you made were bad. </p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "The negative value indicates your model does suck :)  I believe a score of -1.48 occurs if you submit a file that just predicts the means.\n\nThe changes you made were bad.",
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  "comments": [
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      "id": 3393703,
      "author_name": "pcjimmmy",
      "author_url": "",
      "post_date": "01/19/2026 16:17:57",
      "content": "<p>The negative value indicates your model does suck :)  I believe a score of -1.48 occurs if you submit a file that just predicts the means.</p>\n<p>The changes you made were bad. </p>",
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    "3393684": "I just submitted a notebook for this competition, and my score came back as -0.39. This negative score confuses me because I didn't have any negative numbers in my final output/submission csv, and I made several changes to my model that were supposed to improve my score. \n\nDoes this have something to do with the scoring metric or does it suggest a problem with my own code decisions? My latest (and best) score that is normal 0.25.\n\nAny help would be much appreciated.",
    "3393703": "The negative value indicates your model does suck :)  I believe a score of -1.48 occurs if you submit a file that just predicts the means.\n\nThe changes you made were bad."
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