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Re:The One Billion Row Challenge by paxys on Thursday January 04, 2024 @09:49AM (#38867648)
Yeah if you are releasing the competition dataset then it can and will 100% be gamed. What is to stop me from just hardcoding and printing the result without any computation?
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Re:The One Billion Row Challenge by refulgentis on Thursday January 04, 2024 @10:57AM (#38868516)
Your code is submitted (per parent comment)
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Re:The One Billion Row Challenge by paxys on Thursday January 04, 2024 @11:45AM (#38869177)
Sure, but who is manually checking every entry?
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Re:The One Billion Row Challenge by 946789987649 on Thursday January 04, 2024 @12:13PM (#38869550)
You don't need to check every entry, just the top few.
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