Re:A Kaggle Grandmaster cheated in $25k AI contest with hidd...
by iudqnolq on Thursday January 23, 2020 @10:08AM
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> There is no such thing as "training code".
I'm by no means an expert in ML, but my understanding is there's some code that is run to train the modal. I meant that by "training code". My regrets if my terminology was unclear.
> They took the official training set. Said, we need more. And scraped websites to get a bigger, illegal training set. This is against the rules and is cheating. They got caught.
No, this is wrong
I suggest you look at one of the other comment where people have explained why this is wrong. They did a better job than me.
Re:A Kaggle Grandmaster cheated in $25k AI contest with hidd...
by harry8 on Thursday January 23, 2020 @07:46PM
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No it isn't. See above. Overfittiing to a holdout set is so easy and common you usually need to take steps to avoid it. See my comment directly above. Best.
I'm by no means an expert in ML, but my understanding is there's some code that is run to train the modal. I meant that by "training code". My regrets if my terminology was unclear.
> They took the official training set. Said, we need more. And scraped websites to get a bigger, illegal training set. This is against the rules and is cheating. They got caught.
No, this is wrong
I suggest you look at one of the other comment where people have explained why this is wrong. They did a better job than me.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22124760
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22126489
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22124193