{
  "id": 664106,
  "title": "Could you please disclose the second or third decimal place?",
  "url": "/competitions/deep-past-initiative-machine-translation/discussion/664106",
  "author_name": "",
  "post_date": "2025-12-22T13:42:45.368887300Z",
  "votes": null,
  "comment_count": 3,
  "views": 0,
  "content": "<p>The scores of all participants in this competition are currently very close to each other. And many optimizations I made have not affected my score (but it has changed the ranking). Could the organizers please allow the display of the second decimal place (or even the third decimal place would be better)?</p>",
  "messages": [
    {
      "id": "3380502",
      "postDate": "12/22/2025 13:42:45",
      "content": "<p>The scores of all participants in this competition are currently very close to each other. And many optimizations I made have not affected my score (but it has changed the ranking). Could the organizers please allow the display of the second decimal place (or even the third decimal place would be better)?</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "The scores of all participants in this competition are currently very close to each other. And many optimizations I made have not affected my score (but it has changed the ranking). Could the organizers please allow the display of the second decimal place (or even the third decimal place would be better)?",
      "votes": null
    },
    {
      "id": "3380520",
      "postDate": "12/22/2025 14:43:19",
      "content": "<p>Hi <a href=\"https://www.kaggle.com/ruichardliu\" target=\"_blank\">@ruichardliu</a>,</p>\n<p>For now, let's keep the current one-decimal truncation. Since the scores are scaled to a maximum of 100, this is already 3 digits revealed. You can use the improvement in ranking as a weaker signal of improvement, however -- possibly not a bad thing to prevent overfitting on the relatively smaller public test set.</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "Hi @ruichardliu,\n\nFor now, let's keep the current one-decimal truncation. Since the scores are scaled to a maximum of 100, this is already 3 digits revealed. You can use the improvement in ranking as a weaker signal of improvement, however -- possibly not a bad thing to prevent overfitting on the relatively smaller public test set.",
      "votes": null
    },
    {
      "id": "3380525",
      "postDate": "12/22/2025 14:57:46",
      "content": "<p>OK. Thank you for your answer.</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "OK. Thank you for your answer.",
      "votes": null
    },
    {
      "id": "3402453",
      "postDate": "02/06/2026 05:10:12",
      "content": "<p>Don't forget you can sort your submissions by public score which can give you another decimal or two.</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "Don't forget you can sort your submissions by public score which can give you another decimal or two.",
      "votes": null
    }
  ],
  "comments": [
    {
      "id": 3380520,
      "author_name": "ryanholbrook",
      "author_url": "",
      "post_date": "12/22/2025 14:43:19",
      "content": "<p>Hi <a href=\"https://www.kaggle.com/ruichardliu\" target=\"_blank\">@ruichardliu</a>,</p>\n<p>For now, let's keep the current one-decimal truncation. Since the scores are scaled to a maximum of 100, this is already 3 digits revealed. You can use the improvement in ranking as a weaker signal of improvement, however -- possibly not a bad thing to prevent overfitting on the relatively smaller public test set.</p>",
      "votes": null,
      "replies": [
        {
          "id": 3380525,
          "author_name": "ruichardliu",
          "author_url": "",
          "post_date": "12/22/2025 14:57:46",
          "content": "<p>OK. Thank you for your answer.</p>",
          "votes": null,
          "replies": [
            {
              "id": 3402453,
              "author_name": "pcjimmmy",
              "author_url": "",
              "post_date": "02/06/2026 05:10:12",
              "content": "<p>Don't forget you can sort your submissions by public score which can give you another decimal or two.</p>",
              "votes": null,
              "replies": []
            }
          ]
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
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    "3380502": "The scores of all participants in this competition are currently very close to each other. And many optimizations I made have not affected my score (but it has changed the ranking). Could the organizers please allow the display of the second decimal place (or even the third decimal place would be better)?",
    "3380520": "Hi @ruichardliu,\n\nFor now, let's keep the current one-decimal truncation. Since the scores are scaled to a maximum of 100, this is already 3 digits revealed. You can use the improvement in ranking as a weaker signal of improvement, however -- possibly not a bad thing to prevent overfitting on the relatively smaller public test set.",
    "3380525": "OK. Thank you for your answer.",
    "3402453": "Don't forget you can sort your submissions by public score which can give you another decimal or two."
  },
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}