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  "id": 72059,
  "title": "Novel approaches for class 99",
  "url": "/competitions/PLAsTiCC-2018/discussion/72059",
  "author_name": "",
  "post_date": "2018-11-19T22:12:26.846975800Z",
  "votes": 8,
  "comment_count": 1,
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  "content": "<p>So far I've used some statistical approaches to class 99.  It occurred to me that it might be fun to create a few light curves for hypothetical objects that might exist but have not been proven and then add those to the training set.  Those classes (hypA, hypB, etc.) would then have their predict_proba sum --&gt; class 99.</p>\n\n<p>I'm not an astronomer.  I found <a href=\"http://listverse.com/2017/07/24/10-hypothetical-astronomical-objects-that-could-actually-exist/\">this link</a> but I'm not sure how reputable the source is.  Any thoughts on objects that may be out there?  Other interesting approaches to class 99?</p>",
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      "id": "424320",
      "postDate": "11/19/2018 22:12:26",
      "content": "<p>So far I've used some statistical approaches to class 99.  It occurred to me that it might be fun to create a few light curves for hypothetical objects that might exist but have not been proven and then add those to the training set.  Those classes (hypA, hypB, etc.) would then have their predict_proba sum --&gt; class 99.</p>\n\n<p>I'm not an astronomer.  I found <a href=\"http://listverse.com/2017/07/24/10-hypothetical-astronomical-objects-that-could-actually-exist/\">this link</a> but I'm not sure how reputable the source is.  Any thoughts on objects that may be out there?  Other interesting approaches to class 99?</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "So far I've used some statistical approaches to class 99.  It occurred to me that it might be fun to create a few light curves for hypothetical objects that might exist but have not been proven and then add those to the training set.  Those classes (hypA, hypB, etc.) would then have their predict_proba sum --&gt; class 99.\n\nI'm not an astronomer.  I found [this link](http://listverse.com/2017/07/24/10-hypothetical-astronomical-objects-that-could-actually-exist/) but I'm not sure how reputable the source is.  Any thoughts on objects that may be out there?  Other interesting approaches to class 99?",
      "votes": null
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    {
      "id": "424584",
      "postDate": "11/20/2018 11:07:58",
      "content": "<p>I added an algorithm in the discussion - it worked for my model - give it a try and let me know (It dropped my score by ~.01)</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "I added an algorithm in the discussion - it worked for my model - give it a try and let me know (It dropped my score by ~.01)",
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  "comments": [
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      "id": 424584,
      "author_name": "scirpus",
      "author_url": "",
      "post_date": "11/20/2018 11:07:58",
      "content": "<p>I added an algorithm in the discussion - it worked for my model - give it a try and let me know (It dropped my score by ~.01)</p>",
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    "424320": "So far I've used some statistical approaches to class 99.  It occurred to me that it might be fun to create a few light curves for hypothetical objects that might exist but have not been proven and then add those to the training set.  Those classes (hypA, hypB, etc.) would then have their predict_proba sum --&gt; class 99.\n\nI'm not an astronomer.  I found [this link](http://listverse.com/2017/07/24/10-hypothetical-astronomical-objects-that-could-actually-exist/) but I'm not sure how reputable the source is.  Any thoughts on objects that may be out there?  Other interesting approaches to class 99?",
    "424584": "I added an algorithm in the discussion - it worked for my model - give it a try and let me know (It dropped my score by ~.01)"
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