{
  "id": 674053,
  "title": "Training data ",
  "url": "/competitions/accident/discussion/674053",
  "author_name": "",
  "post_date": "2026-02-18T12:27:15.083233200Z",
  "votes": 1,
  "comment_count": 1,
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  "content": "<p>Are we only supposed to train on the given synthetic data? Or can we use general models trained on other datasets?</p>",
  "messages": [
    {
      "id": "3407478",
      "postDate": "02/18/2026 12:27:15",
      "content": "<p>Are we only supposed to train on the given synthetic data? Or can we use general models trained on other datasets?</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "Are we only supposed to train on the given synthetic data? Or can we use general models trained on other datasets?",
      "votes": null
    },
    {
      "id": "3407488",
      "postDate": "02/18/2026 12:55:24",
      "content": "<p>Hi <a href=\"https://www.kaggle.com/pshikk\" target=\"_blank\">@pshikk</a> ,</p>\n<p>Thank you for your interest in our competition.</p>\n<p>The goal of this competition is to generalize well to regions with little or no data. \nHowever, in general, you may use any publicly available dataset, as long as you are not manually labeling the data.</p>\n<p>If you’re unsure whether a particular dataset is allowed, please ask here first before using it.</p>\n<p>Best,\nLukas</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "Hi @pshikk ,\n\nThank you for your interest in our competition.\n\nThe goal of this competition is to generalize well to regions with little or no data. \nHowever, in general, you may use any publicly available dataset, as long as you are not manually labeling the data.\n\nIf you’re unsure whether a particular dataset is allowed, please ask here first before using it.\n\nBest,\nLukas",
      "votes": null
    }
  ],
  "comments": [
    {
      "id": 3407488,
      "author_name": "picekl",
      "author_url": "",
      "post_date": "02/18/2026 12:55:24",
      "content": "<p>Hi <a href=\"https://www.kaggle.com/pshikk\" target=\"_blank\">@pshikk</a> ,</p>\n<p>Thank you for your interest in our competition.</p>\n<p>The goal of this competition is to generalize well to regions with little or no data. \nHowever, in general, you may use any publicly available dataset, as long as you are not manually labeling the data.</p>\n<p>If you’re unsure whether a particular dataset is allowed, please ask here first before using it.</p>\n<p>Best,\nLukas</p>",
      "votes": null,
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    }
  ],
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    "3407478": "Are we only supposed to train on the given synthetic data? Or can we use general models trained on other datasets?",
    "3407488": "Hi @pshikk ,\n\nThank you for your interest in our competition.\n\nThe goal of this competition is to generalize well to regions with little or no data. \nHowever, in general, you may use any publicly available dataset, as long as you are not manually labeling the data.\n\nIf you’re unsure whether a particular dataset is allowed, please ask here first before using it.\n\nBest,\nLukas"
  },
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