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  "id": 1200,
  "title": "Win a free Kinect",
  "url": "/competitions/GestureChallenge/discussion/1200",
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  "post_date": "2011-12-29T17:46:06.323Z",
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  "content": "<p>Win a free Kinect if you are among the first 10 people who make an entry that outperforms on validation data the sample code entry:</p>\r\n<table id=\"x_x_leaderboard-table\" class=\"x_x_oddeventable\">\r\n<tbody>\r\n<tr class=\"x_x_benchmark x_x_odd x_x_help\">\r\n<td class=\"x_x_delta\">&nbsp;</td>\r\n<td><strong>sample_predict.csv Benchmark</strong></td>\r\n<td><a name=\"x_x_0.59978\"></a><strong>&nbsp;<a title=\"5d improvement: none\" href=\"http://www.kaggle.com/c/GestureChallenge/Leaderboard#0.59978\">0.59978</a></strong></td>\r\n</tr>\r\n</tbody>\r\n</table>\r\n<p>To clain your prize, send to events@chalearn.org a screenshot of the leaderboard showing your entry and indentify your entry.</p>",
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      "id": "7558",
      "postDate": "12/29/2011 17:46:06",
      "content": "<p>Win a free Kinect if you are among the first 10 people who make an entry that outperforms on validation data the sample code entry:</p>\r\n<table id=\"x_x_leaderboard-table\" class=\"x_x_oddeventable\">\r\n<tbody>\r\n<tr class=\"x_x_benchmark x_x_odd x_x_help\">\r\n<td class=\"x_x_delta\">&nbsp;</td>\r\n<td><strong>sample_predict.csv Benchmark</strong></td>\r\n<td><a name=\"x_x_0.59978\"></a><strong>&nbsp;<a title=\"5d improvement: none\" href=\"http://www.kaggle.com/c/GestureChallenge/Leaderboard#0.59978\">0.59978</a></strong></td>\r\n</tr>\r\n</tbody>\r\n</table>\r\n<p>To clain your prize, send to events@chalearn.org a screenshot of the leaderboard showing your entry and indentify your entry.</p>",
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      "id": "7565",
      "postDate": "12/29/2011 18:32:58",
      "content": "<p>How will you ensure that those entries were not hand-labeled? It's very easy to view the videos and create a submission with a better score than the benchmark.</p>",
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      "id": "7573",
      "postDate": "12/30/2011 07:29:02",
      "content": "<p>You don't even have to label all of the videos. You just need to correct some entries of sample_predict to obtain a better score :-)<br>\r\nThere will be also the problem of same entries (or slightly modified entries) sent from different accounts. We have seen that in a recent competition.</p>\r\n<p>Edit: Will we have to pay the delivery? :-)</p>",
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      "id": "7575",
      "postDate": "12/30/2011 15:23:05",
      "content": "<p>[quote=Ali Hassaïne;7573]</p>\r\n<p>You don't even have to label all of the videos. You just need to correct some entries of sample_predict to obtain a better score :-)<br>\r\nThere will be also the problem of same entries (or slightly modified entries) sent from different accounts. We have seen that in a recent competition.</p>\r\n<p>Edit: Will we have to pay the delivery? :-)</p>\r\n<p>[/quote]</p>\r\n<p>Agreed. It's wonderful that you are trying to spur interest in this challenge but you'd need a way to carefully gauge the fairness of competition entries and to avoid situations which we've seen in contest after contest. To quote my friend Jason Tigg: &quot;we\r\n come here to have fun and such problems just make it not fun anymore&quot;.</p>",
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      "id": "7589",
      "postDate": "12/31/2011 01:52:40",
      "content": "<p>awesome!!!!!! I am trying :P ...&nbsp;</p>",
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      "id": "7596",
      "postDate": "12/31/2011 06:15:42",
      "content": "<p>This sounds great. I planned to work on it later since I have to work on my thesis first. But this is too good to be true ..... So let me try something quick and simple model and get a free kinect first :)</p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p>Add:</p>\r\n<p>Now I already beat the benchmark and I made a claim for a free kinect and I'll see what happens. I guess with a free kinect I may be able to do some serious machine learning to play with it....</p>",
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    {
      "id": "7685",
      "postDate": "01/05/2012 11:38:30",
      "content": "<p>Did the first winners receive their Kinect :-) ?</p>",
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    {
      "id": "7702",
      "postDate": "01/06/2012 00:55:34",
      "content": "<p>Isabelle replied to me saying that it will take more days and will send me an email once it is shipped out.</p>",
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      "id": "7704",
      "postDate": "01/06/2012 01:13:36",
      "content": "<p>[quote=woshialex;7596]</p>\r\n<p>I planned to work on it later since I have to work on my thesis first.</p>\r\n<p>[/quote]</p>\r\n<p>A PhD thesis? Good luck with that. Now stop playing with your kinect and start writing.&nbsp;</p>",
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      "id": "7706",
      "postDate": "01/06/2012 02:13:47",
      "content": "<p>Yes, a Ph. D thesis.. :)</p>\r\n<p>I could not stop being distracted by this competetion. Once I get my thesis done, I think I'll come back to build some serious code. Now I just played with the sample code and made improvements.</p>",
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      "id": "9257",
      "postDate": "03/12/2012 20:48:48",
      "content": "<p>[quote=Ali Hassaïne;7685]</p>\r\n<p>Did the first winners receive their Kinect :-) ?</p>\r\n<p>[/quote]</p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p>I was one of the first 10. My Kinect finally arrived today. :D</p>",
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      "id": "9287",
      "postDate": "03/13/2012 22:34:44",
      "content": "<p>Sorry it took so long. There was quite a bit more paper work to do at MS than anticipated.</p>",
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    {
      "id": "9541",
      "postDate": "03/19/2012 18:47:41",
      "content": "<p>I got mine today.</p>",
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      "id": 7565,
      "author_name": "sirguessalot",
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      "post_date": "12/29/2011 18:32:58",
      "content": "<p>How will you ensure that those entries were not hand-labeled? It's very easy to view the videos and create a submission with a better score than the benchmark.</p>",
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      "id": 7573,
      "author_name": "ahassaine",
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      "post_date": "12/30/2011 07:29:02",
      "content": "<p>You don't even have to label all of the videos. You just need to correct some entries of sample_predict to obtain a better score :-)<br>\r\nThere will be also the problem of same entries (or slightly modified entries) sent from different accounts. We have seen that in a recent competition.</p>\r\n<p>Edit: Will we have to pay the delivery? :-)</p>",
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      "id": 7575,
      "author_name": "sirguessalot",
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      "post_date": "12/30/2011 15:23:05",
      "content": "<p>[quote=Ali Hassaïne;7573]</p>\r\n<p>You don't even have to label all of the videos. You just need to correct some entries of sample_predict to obtain a better score :-)<br>\r\nThere will be also the problem of same entries (or slightly modified entries) sent from different accounts. We have seen that in a recent competition.</p>\r\n<p>Edit: Will we have to pay the delivery? :-)</p>\r\n<p>[/quote]</p>\r\n<p>Agreed. It's wonderful that you are trying to spur interest in this challenge but you'd need a way to carefully gauge the fairness of competition entries and to avoid situations which we've seen in contest after contest. To quote my friend Jason Tigg: &quot;we\r\n come here to have fun and such problems just make it not fun anymore&quot;.</p>",
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      "id": 7589,
      "author_name": "anup13958",
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      "post_date": "12/31/2011 01:52:40",
      "content": "<p>awesome!!!!!! I am trying :P ...&nbsp;</p>",
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      "id": 7596,
      "author_name": "woshialex",
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      "post_date": "12/31/2011 06:15:42",
      "content": "<p>This sounds great. I planned to work on it later since I have to work on my thesis first. But this is too good to be true ..... So let me try something quick and simple model and get a free kinect first :)</p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p>Add:</p>\r\n<p>Now I already beat the benchmark and I made a claim for a free kinect and I'll see what happens. I guess with a free kinect I may be able to do some serious machine learning to play with it....</p>",
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      "author_name": "ahassaine",
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      "post_date": "01/05/2012 11:38:30",
      "content": "<p>Did the first winners receive their Kinect :-) ?</p>",
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      "id": 7702,
      "author_name": "woshialex",
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      "post_date": "01/06/2012 00:55:34",
      "content": "<p>Isabelle replied to me saying that it will take more days and will send me an email once it is shipped out.</p>",
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      "id": 7704,
      "author_name": "alecstephenson",
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      "post_date": "01/06/2012 01:13:36",
      "content": "<p>[quote=woshialex;7596]</p>\r\n<p>I planned to work on it later since I have to work on my thesis first.</p>\r\n<p>[/quote]</p>\r\n<p>A PhD thesis? Good luck with that. Now stop playing with your kinect and start writing.&nbsp;</p>",
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      "id": 7706,
      "author_name": "woshialex",
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      "post_date": "01/06/2012 02:13:47",
      "content": "<p>Yes, a Ph. D thesis.. :)</p>\r\n<p>I could not stop being distracted by this competetion. Once I get my thesis done, I think I'll come back to build some serious code. Now I just played with the sample code and made improvements.</p>",
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      "id": 9257,
      "author_name": "mmolek",
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      "post_date": "03/12/2012 20:48:48",
      "content": "<p>[quote=Ali Hassaïne;7685]</p>\r\n<p>Did the first winners receive their Kinect :-) ?</p>\r\n<p>[/quote]</p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p>I was one of the first 10. My Kinect finally arrived today. :D</p>",
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      "author_name": "iguyon",
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      "post_date": "03/13/2012 22:34:44",
      "content": "<p>Sorry it took so long. There was quite a bit more paper work to do at MS than anticipated.</p>",
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      "id": 9541,
      "author_name": "rajstennajbarrabas",
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      "post_date": "03/19/2012 18:47:41",
      "content": "<p>I got mine today.</p>",
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