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Re:My First Kaggle ConvNet: Getting to 3rd Percentile in 3 M... by fixxer on Tuesday July 28, 2015 @07:44AM (#9960754)
Still active: https://www.kaggle.com/c/diabetic-retinopathy-detection

Looks like a fun problem. I've never had much luck with NN for anything other that feature extraction.

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Re:My First Kaggle ConvNet: Getting to 3rd Percentile in 3 M... by dhammack on Tuesday July 28, 2015 @10:25AM (#9961673)
It just finished, I got 4th. I used convnets. With the correct initialization and data preprocessing they actually are quite easy to train.
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Re:My First Kaggle ConvNet: Getting to 3rd Percentile in 3 M... by fixxer on Tuesday July 28, 2015 @11:28AM (#9962221)
Neat. Congrats! I'm going to have to learn me some ConvNets.
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