{
  "id": 94323,
  "title": "Thanks CPMP!",
  "url": "/competitions/LANL-Earthquake-Prediction/discussion/94323",
  "author_name": "",
  "post_date": "2019-06-04T01:23:13.771294200Z",
  "votes": 34,
  "comment_count": 17,
  "views": 0,
  "content": "<p>Big thanks to <a href=\"/cpmpml\">@cpmpml</a> for sharing a wealth of knowledge in this competition and many others:\n- Posting his OOF plots and describing his process for feature selection.\n- Encouraging us trust our CV\n- Reminding us the public LB is meaningless.\n- Explaining that less features is more.\nHe doesn't have to help us all by posting insights, but he does it anyways!</p>",
  "messages": [
    {
      "id": "542551",
      "postDate": "06/04/2019 01:23:13",
      "content": "<p>Big thanks to <a href=\"/cpmpml\">@cpmpml</a> for sharing a wealth of knowledge in this competition and many others:\n- Posting his OOF plots and describing his process for feature selection.\n- Encouraging us trust our CV\n- Reminding us the public LB is meaningless.\n- Explaining that less features is more.\nHe doesn't have to help us all by posting insights, but he does it anyways!</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "Big thanks to @cpmpml for sharing a wealth of knowledge in this competition and many others:\n- Posting his OOF plots and describing his process for feature selection.\n- Encouraging us trust our CV\n- Reminding us the public LB is meaningless.\n- Explaining that less features is more.\nHe doesn't have to help us all by posting insights, but he does it anyways!",
      "votes": null
    },
    {
      "id": "542557",
      "postDate": "06/04/2019 01:25:48",
      "content": "<p>Thanks, I swore I would not share anything in this competition, yet I couldn't avoid it ;)</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "Thanks, I swore I would not share anything in this competition, yet I couldn't avoid it ;)",
      "votes": null
    },
    {
      "id": "542565",
      "postDate": "06/04/2019 01:37:19",
      "content": "<p>Haha.. thanks man</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "Haha.. thanks man",
      "votes": null
    },
    {
      "id": "542573",
      "postDate": "06/04/2019 01:39:33",
      "content": "<p>It is crazy to see that change between public and private LB and CPMP is one of those with least change on the top LB...really looking forward to their solutions. </p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "It is crazy to see that change between public and private LB and CPMP is one of those with least change on the top LB...really looking forward to their solutions.",
      "votes": null
    },
    {
      "id": "542588",
      "postDate": "06/04/2019 01:49:55",
      "content": "<p>Thanks <a href=\"/cpmpml\">@cpmpml</a>. Your forum posts are always welcome, specially if you disclose some leaks ;)</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "Thanks @cpmpml. Your forum posts are always welcome, specially if you disclose some leaks ;)",
      "votes": null
    },
    {
      "id": "542600",
      "postDate": "06/04/2019 01:57:55",
      "content": "<p>Also thanks to CPMP.</p>\n\n<p>Here is my suggestion: Hang up a shingle as a Kaggle competition organizer, mainly to make sure that the data organization makes sense.</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "Also thanks to CPMP.\n\nHere is my suggestion: Hang up a shingle as a Kaggle competition organizer, mainly to make sure that the data organization makes sense.",
      "votes": null
    },
    {
      "id": "542681",
      "postDate": "06/04/2019 03:27:29",
      "content": "<p>Yeah absolutely I am also thinking about public score and private score how both are independent to each other.... BTW <a href=\"/cpmpml\">@cpmpml</a> please post kernel we will eagerly waiting for this. </p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "Yeah absolutely I am also thinking about public score and private score how both are independent to each other.... BTW @cpmpml please post kernel we will eagerly waiting for this.",
      "votes": null
    },
    {
      "id": "542696",
      "postDate": "06/04/2019 03:36:52",
      "content": "<p>I also want to thank you <a href=\"/cpmpml\">@cpmpml</a> !\nI really appreciate all the time you spent sharing your knowledge. Honestly I would've probably quit this competition, so little sense the difference between LB and CV made to me in the beginning. But I took your advice to trust my CV ;)</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "I also want to thank you @cpmpml !\nI really appreciate all the time you spent sharing your knowledge. Honestly I would've probably quit this competition, so little sense the difference between LB and CV made to me in the beginning. But I took your advice to trust my CV ;)",
      "votes": null
    },
    {
      "id": "542878",
      "postDate": "06/04/2019 06:50:11",
      "content": "<p>Lots of awesome insights indeed. Thanks for sharing. Now, I am waiting for the ABC team's solution. ;)</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "Lots of awesome insights indeed. Thanks for sharing. Now, I am waiting for the ABC team's solution. ;)",
      "votes": null
    },
    {
      "id": "542881",
      "postDate": "06/04/2019 06:52:31",
      "content": "<p>Yes thank you <a href=\"/cpmpml\">@cpmpml</a>. Because of your concerns about the LB and the amount of training data i tried to make my model as general as possible. Result: 124th\nThanks! </p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "Yes thank you @cpmpml. Because of your concerns about the LB and the amount of training data i tried to make my model as general as possible. Result: 124th\nThanks!",
      "votes": null
    },
    {
      "id": "542915",
      "postDate": "06/04/2019 07:31:46",
      "content": "<blockquote>\n  <p>BTW <a href=\"/cpmpml\">@cpmpml</a> please post kernel we will eagerly waiting for this. </p>\n</blockquote>\n\n<p>I cannot, rules are too demanding (liability section) for me to post kernels.</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "&gt;  BTW @cpmpml please post kernel we will eagerly waiting for this. \n\nI cannot, rules are too demanding (liability section) for me to post kernels.",
      "votes": null
    },
    {
      "id": "542972",
      "postDate": "06/04/2019 08:44:32",
      "content": "<p>Thank you Uncle, it's always insightful when you drop some knowledge!</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "Thank you Uncle, it's always insightful when you drop some knowledge!",
      "votes": null
    },
    {
      "id": "543033",
      "postDate": "06/04/2019 09:33:25",
      "content": "<p><a href=\"/cpmpml\">@cpmpml</a> Can you elaborate a bit on what you mean with that? Which liabilty would be violated?</p>\n\n<p>And on posting kernels: I actually prefere to talk about ideas behind kernels. It sometimes is nice to have an example, but just handing out a winning solution is nonsense. We will never takle the same problem again (and that's good and why ML is fun!).</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "cpmpml Can you elaborate a bit on what you mean with that? Which liabilty would be violated?\n\nAnd on posting kernels: I actually prefere to talk about ideas behind kernels. It sometimes is nice to have an example, but just handing out a winning solution is nonsense. We will never takle the same problem again (and that's good and why ML is fun!).",
      "votes": null
    },
    {
      "id": "543089",
      "postDate": "06/04/2019 10:20:57",
      "content": "<p>I took a legal advice on Kaggle rules.  I can only tell you to do the same if you want to know more.  I discussed this in a post in another competition:\n<a href=\"https://www.kaggle.com/c/two-sigma-financial-news/discussion/66828#393743\">https://www.kaggle.com/c/two-sigma-financial-news/discussion/66828#393743</a></p>\n\n<p>Maybe there is no issue when posting a kernel and not claiming a prize, but I'll stay on the safe side.</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "I took a legal advice on Kaggle rules.  I can only tell you to do the same if you want to know more.  I discussed this in a post in another competition:\nhttps://www.kaggle.com/c/two-sigma-financial-news/discussion/66828#393743\n\nMaybe there is no issue when posting a kernel and not claiming a prize, but I'll stay on the safe side.",
      "votes": null
    },
    {
      "id": "543266",
      "postDate": "06/04/2019 12:28:17",
      "content": "<p>Thank you CPMP, I tried a lot of feature engineering after I saw your post.</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "Thank you CPMP, I tried a lot of feature engineering after I saw your post.",
      "votes": null
    },
    {
      "id": "543298",
      "postDate": "06/04/2019 13:00:49",
      "content": "<p>Thank you!</p>\n\n<p>Well, this is indeed worrisome! And how the hell can Dropout be patented...?! I'm a bit puzzled at the moment.\nHowever, to my knowledge scientific theory and mathematical models cannot be patented. At least in Germany. Still, those models (like Dropout) could be a pending patent (that will be rejected). So, in any way, a sentence like \"[...] does not contain confidential information or trade secrets and is not the subject of a registered patent or pending patent application\" is worrisome.</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "Thank you!\n\nWell, this is indeed worrisome! And how the hell can Dropout be patented...?! I'm a bit puzzled at the moment.\nHowever, to my knowledge scientific theory and mathematical models cannot be patented. At least in Germany. Still, those models (like Dropout) could be a pending patent (that will be rejected). So, in any way, a sentence like \"[...] does not contain confidential information or trade secrets and is not the subject of a registered patent or pending patent application\" is worrisome.",
      "votes": null
    },
    {
      "id": "543307",
      "postDate": "06/04/2019 13:06:30",
      "content": "<p>I work for a US company, and they take this very seriously.</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "I work for a US company, and they take this very seriously.",
      "votes": null
    },
    {
      "id": "543742",
      "postDate": "06/04/2019 18:42:51",
      "content": "<p>Thank you! The advice to minimise number of features was very helpfull!</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "Thank you! The advice to minimise number of features was very helpfull!",
      "votes": null
    }
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    {
      "id": 542557,
      "author_name": "cpmpml",
      "author_url": "",
      "post_date": "06/04/2019 01:25:48",
      "content": "<p>Thanks, I swore I would not share anything in this competition, yet I couldn't avoid it ;)</p>",
      "votes": null,
      "replies": [
        {
          "id": 542565,
          "author_name": "carlospk",
          "author_url": "",
          "post_date": "06/04/2019 01:37:19",
          "content": "<p>Haha.. thanks man</p>",
          "votes": null,
          "replies": []
        },
        {
          "id": 542696,
          "author_name": "antaresnyc",
          "author_url": "",
          "post_date": "06/04/2019 03:36:52",
          "content": "<p>I also want to thank you <a href=\"/cpmpml\">@cpmpml</a> !\nI really appreciate all the time you spent sharing your knowledge. Honestly I would've probably quit this competition, so little sense the difference between LB and CV made to me in the beginning. But I took your advice to trust my CV ;)</p>",
          "votes": null,
          "replies": []
        },
        {
          "id": 543742,
          "author_name": "bfishh",
          "author_url": "",
          "post_date": "06/04/2019 18:42:51",
          "content": "<p>Thank you! The advice to minimise number of features was very helpfull!</p>",
          "votes": null,
          "replies": []
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": 542573,
      "author_name": "zhixuanliu",
      "author_url": "",
      "post_date": "06/04/2019 01:39:33",
      "content": "<p>It is crazy to see that change between public and private LB and CPMP is one of those with least change on the top LB...really looking forward to their solutions. </p>",
      "votes": null,
      "replies": []
    },
    {
      "id": 542588,
      "author_name": "titericz",
      "author_url": "",
      "post_date": "06/04/2019 01:49:55",
      "content": "<p>Thanks <a href=\"/cpmpml\">@cpmpml</a>. Your forum posts are always welcome, specially if you disclose some leaks ;)</p>",
      "votes": null,
      "replies": []
    },
    {
      "id": 542600,
      "author_name": "petewills",
      "author_url": "",
      "post_date": "06/04/2019 01:57:55",
      "content": "<p>Also thanks to CPMP.</p>\n\n<p>Here is my suggestion: Hang up a shingle as a Kaggle competition organizer, mainly to make sure that the data organization makes sense.</p>",
      "votes": null,
      "replies": []
    },
    {
      "id": 542681,
      "author_name": "himusoni",
      "author_url": "",
      "post_date": "06/04/2019 03:27:29",
      "content": "<p>Yeah absolutely I am also thinking about public score and private score how both are independent to each other.... BTW <a href=\"/cpmpml\">@cpmpml</a> please post kernel we will eagerly waiting for this. </p>",
      "votes": null,
      "replies": [
        {
          "id": 542915,
          "author_name": "cpmpml",
          "author_url": "",
          "post_date": "06/04/2019 07:31:46",
          "content": "<blockquote>\n  <p>BTW <a href=\"/cpmpml\">@cpmpml</a> please post kernel we will eagerly waiting for this. </p>\n</blockquote>\n\n<p>I cannot, rules are too demanding (liability section) for me to post kernels.</p>",
          "votes": null,
          "replies": []
        },
        {
          "id": 543033,
          "author_name": "bernir",
          "author_url": "",
          "post_date": "06/04/2019 09:33:25",
          "content": "<p><a href=\"/cpmpml\">@cpmpml</a> Can you elaborate a bit on what you mean with that? Which liabilty would be violated?</p>\n\n<p>And on posting kernels: I actually prefere to talk about ideas behind kernels. It sometimes is nice to have an example, but just handing out a winning solution is nonsense. We will never takle the same problem again (and that's good and why ML is fun!).</p>",
          "votes": null,
          "replies": []
        },
        {
          "id": 543089,
          "author_name": "cpmpml",
          "author_url": "",
          "post_date": "06/04/2019 10:20:57",
          "content": "<p>I took a legal advice on Kaggle rules.  I can only tell you to do the same if you want to know more.  I discussed this in a post in another competition:\n<a href=\"https://www.kaggle.com/c/two-sigma-financial-news/discussion/66828#393743\">https://www.kaggle.com/c/two-sigma-financial-news/discussion/66828#393743</a></p>\n\n<p>Maybe there is no issue when posting a kernel and not claiming a prize, but I'll stay on the safe side.</p>",
          "votes": null,
          "replies": []
        },
        {
          "id": 543298,
          "author_name": "bernir",
          "author_url": "",
          "post_date": "06/04/2019 13:00:49",
          "content": "<p>Thank you!</p>\n\n<p>Well, this is indeed worrisome! And how the hell can Dropout be patented...?! I'm a bit puzzled at the moment.\nHowever, to my knowledge scientific theory and mathematical models cannot be patented. At least in Germany. Still, those models (like Dropout) could be a pending patent (that will be rejected). So, in any way, a sentence like \"[...] does not contain confidential information or trade secrets and is not the subject of a registered patent or pending patent application\" is worrisome.</p>",
          "votes": null,
          "replies": []
        },
        {
          "id": 543307,
          "author_name": "cpmpml",
          "author_url": "",
          "post_date": "06/04/2019 13:06:30",
          "content": "<p>I work for a US company, and they take this very seriously.</p>",
          "votes": null,
          "replies": []
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": 542878,
      "author_name": "yassinealouini",
      "author_url": "",
      "post_date": "06/04/2019 06:50:11",
      "content": "<p>Lots of awesome insights indeed. Thanks for sharing. Now, I am waiting for the ABC team's solution. ;)</p>",
      "votes": null,
      "replies": []
    },
    {
      "id": 542881,
      "author_name": "sjakob",
      "author_url": "",
      "post_date": "06/04/2019 06:52:31",
      "content": "<p>Yes thank you <a href=\"/cpmpml\">@cpmpml</a>. Because of your concerns about the LB and the amount of training data i tried to make my model as general as possible. Result: 124th\nThanks! </p>",
      "votes": null,
      "replies": []
    },
    {
      "id": 542972,
      "author_name": "stanislavblinov",
      "author_url": "",
      "post_date": "06/04/2019 08:44:32",
      "content": "<p>Thank you Uncle, it's always insightful when you drop some knowledge!</p>",
      "votes": null,
      "replies": []
    },
    {
      "id": 543266,
      "author_name": "corochann",
      "author_url": "",
      "post_date": "06/04/2019 12:28:17",
      "content": "<p>Thank you CPMP, I tried a lot of feature engineering after I saw your post.</p>",
      "votes": null,
      "replies": []
    }
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    "542551": "Big thanks to @cpmpml for sharing a wealth of knowledge in this competition and many others:\n- Posting his OOF plots and describing his process for feature selection.\n- Encouraging us trust our CV\n- Reminding us the public LB is meaningless.\n- Explaining that less features is more.\nHe doesn't have to help us all by posting insights, but he does it anyways!",
    "542557": "Thanks, I swore I would not share anything in this competition, yet I couldn't avoid it ;)",
    "542565": "Haha.. thanks man",
    "542573": "It is crazy to see that change between public and private LB and CPMP is one of those with least change on the top LB...really looking forward to their solutions.",
    "542588": "Thanks @cpmpml. Your forum posts are always welcome, specially if you disclose some leaks ;)",
    "542600": "Also thanks to CPMP.\n\nHere is my suggestion: Hang up a shingle as a Kaggle competition organizer, mainly to make sure that the data organization makes sense.",
    "542681": "Yeah absolutely I am also thinking about public score and private score how both are independent to each other.... BTW @cpmpml please post kernel we will eagerly waiting for this.",
    "542696": "I also want to thank you @cpmpml !\nI really appreciate all the time you spent sharing your knowledge. Honestly I would've probably quit this competition, so little sense the difference between LB and CV made to me in the beginning. But I took your advice to trust my CV ;)",
    "542878": "Lots of awesome insights indeed. Thanks for sharing. Now, I am waiting for the ABC team's solution. ;)",
    "542881": "Yes thank you @cpmpml. Because of your concerns about the LB and the amount of training data i tried to make my model as general as possible. Result: 124th\nThanks!",
    "542915": "&gt;  BTW @cpmpml please post kernel we will eagerly waiting for this. \n\nI cannot, rules are too demanding (liability section) for me to post kernels.",
    "542972": "Thank you Uncle, it's always insightful when you drop some knowledge!",
    "543033": "cpmpml Can you elaborate a bit on what you mean with that? Which liabilty would be violated?\n\nAnd on posting kernels: I actually prefere to talk about ideas behind kernels. It sometimes is nice to have an example, but just handing out a winning solution is nonsense. We will never takle the same problem again (and that's good and why ML is fun!).",
    "543089": "I took a legal advice on Kaggle rules.  I can only tell you to do the same if you want to know more.  I discussed this in a post in another competition:\nhttps://www.kaggle.com/c/two-sigma-financial-news/discussion/66828#393743\n\nMaybe there is no issue when posting a kernel and not claiming a prize, but I'll stay on the safe side.",
    "543266": "Thank you CPMP, I tried a lot of feature engineering after I saw your post.",
    "543298": "Thank you!\n\nWell, this is indeed worrisome! And how the hell can Dropout be patented...?! I'm a bit puzzled at the moment.\nHowever, to my knowledge scientific theory and mathematical models cannot be patented. At least in Germany. Still, those models (like Dropout) could be a pending patent (that will be rejected). So, in any way, a sentence like \"[...] does not contain confidential information or trade secrets and is not the subject of a registered patent or pending patent application\" is worrisome.",
    "543307": "I work for a US company, and they take this very seriously.",
    "543742": "Thank you! The advice to minimise number of features was very helpfull!"
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