{
  "id": 28175,
  "title": "* in the money ?",
  "url": "/competitions/dogs-vs-cats-redux-kernels-edition/discussion/28175",
  "author_name": "",
  "post_date": "2017-01-27T11:57:29.680Z",
  "votes": null,
  "comment_count": 2,
  "views": 73,
  "content": "<p>We may all agree that this is a great competition for learning new things.\nIt's greatly useful to invest some time on it.\nBut is it worth investing most of ones time ?\nI still can see the green sentence \"* in the money\" on leaderboard. Will there be any prizes for the winner(s) ?</p>",
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    {
      "id": "158424",
      "postDate": "01/27/2017 11:57:29",
      "content": "<p>We may all agree that this is a great competition for learning new things.\nIt's greatly useful to invest some time on it.\nBut is it worth investing most of ones time ?\nI still can see the green sentence \"* in the money\" on leaderboard. Will there be any prizes for the winner(s) ?</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "We may all agree that this is a great competition for learning new things.\r\nIt's greatly useful to invest some time on it.\r\nBut is it worth investing most of ones time ?\r\nI still can see the green sentence \"* in the money\" on leaderboard. Will there be any prizes for the winner(s) ?",
      "votes": null
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    {
      "id": "158432",
      "postDate": "01/27/2017 13:16:32",
      "content": "<p>As far as I know there is no prize in \"Knowledge\" competitions. I think that the objetive of this competitions, as you said, is to learn new things. In adittion it would make little sense to deliver prizes with only one \"test stage\" because people can overfit the test set easily.</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "As far as I know there is no prize in \"Knowledge\" competitions. I think that the objetive of this competitions, as you said, is to learn new things. In adittion it would make little sense to deliver prizes with only one \"test stage\" because people can overfit the test set easily.",
      "votes": null
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    {
      "id": "158487",
      "postDate": "01/27/2017 16:48:17",
      "content": "<p>I couldn't find the reference right now, but I think that the only \"prize\" for the Playground competitions is that you get to publish a writup about your solution for the official Kaggle blog. Some competitions have had up to top three finishing teams write about their solutions. My guess is that the \"in the money\" asterisk is there as a default for the LB template, and they don't want to bother writing a special new template for the Playground competitions.</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "I couldn't find the reference right now, but I think that the only \"prize\" for the Playground competitions is that you get to publish a writup about your solution for the official Kaggle blog. Some competitions have had up to top three finishing teams write about their solutions. My guess is that the \"in the money\" asterisk is there as a default for the LB template, and they don't want to bother writing a special new template for the Playground competitions.",
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    {
      "id": 158432,
      "author_name": "daavoo",
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      "post_date": "01/27/2017 13:16:32",
      "content": "<p>As far as I know there is no prize in \"Knowledge\" competitions. I think that the objetive of this competitions, as you said, is to learn new things. In adittion it would make little sense to deliver prizes with only one \"test stage\" because people can overfit the test set easily.</p>",
      "votes": null,
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    },
    {
      "id": 158487,
      "author_name": "tunguz",
      "author_url": "",
      "post_date": "01/27/2017 16:48:17",
      "content": "<p>I couldn't find the reference right now, but I think that the only \"prize\" for the Playground competitions is that you get to publish a writup about your solution for the official Kaggle blog. Some competitions have had up to top three finishing teams write about their solutions. My guess is that the \"in the money\" asterisk is there as a default for the LB template, and they don't want to bother writing a special new template for the Playground competitions.</p>",
      "votes": null,
      "replies": []
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    "158424": "We may all agree that this is a great competition for learning new things.\r\nIt's greatly useful to invest some time on it.\r\nBut is it worth investing most of ones time ?\r\nI still can see the green sentence \"* in the money\" on leaderboard. Will there be any prizes for the winner(s) ?",
    "158432": "As far as I know there is no prize in \"Knowledge\" competitions. I think that the objetive of this competitions, as you said, is to learn new things. In adittion it would make little sense to deliver prizes with only one \"test stage\" because people can overfit the test set easily.",
    "158487": "I couldn't find the reference right now, but I think that the only \"prize\" for the Playground competitions is that you get to publish a writup about your solution for the official Kaggle blog. Some competitions have had up to top three finishing teams write about their solutions. My guess is that the \"in the money\" asterisk is there as a default for the LB template, and they don't want to bother writing a special new template for the Playground competitions."
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