{
  "id": 308433,
  "title": "Additional Decimal Places in Leaderboard",
  "url": "/competitions/birdclef-2022/discussion/308433",
  "author_name": "",
  "post_date": "2022-02-18T16:12:00.279464700Z",
  "votes": 7,
  "comment_count": 2,
  "views": 0,
  "content": "<p>I wanted to raise this now as it will obviously become an issue as the competition progresses.</p>\n<p>The previous competition had 4 decimal places and this one only has 2.</p>\n<p><a href=\"https://www.kaggle.com/stefankahl\" target=\"_blank\">@stefankahl</a> <a href=\"https://www.kaggle.com/addisonhoward\" target=\"_blank\">@addisonhoward</a> </p>",
  "messages": [
    {
      "id": "1696148",
      "postDate": "02/18/2022 16:12:00",
      "content": "<p>I wanted to raise this now as it will obviously become an issue as the competition progresses.</p>\n<p>The previous competition had 4 decimal places and this one only has 2.</p>\n<p><a href=\"https://www.kaggle.com/stefankahl\" target=\"_blank\">@stefankahl</a> <a href=\"https://www.kaggle.com/addisonhoward\" target=\"_blank\">@addisonhoward</a> </p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "I wanted to raise this now as it will obviously become an issue as the competition progresses.\n\nThe previous competition had 4 decimal places and this one only has 2.\n\n@stefankahl @addisonhoward",
      "votes": null
    },
    {
      "id": "1696150",
      "postDate": "02/18/2022 16:17:48",
      "content": "<p>From what I understand, this is usually done to prevent LB probing 😅</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "From what I understand, this is usually done to prevent LB probing 😅",
      "votes": null
    },
    {
      "id": "1696159",
      "postDate": "02/18/2022 16:22:24",
      "content": "<p>It totally makes sense. That being said, 2 decimal places is probably not enough. </p>\n<p>Maybe they plan to expand to more decimal places as needed instead of preemptively? I suppose that makes sense and would somewhat guard against LB probing.</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "It totally makes sense. That being said, 2 decimal places is probably not enough. \n\nMaybe they plan to expand to more decimal places as needed instead of preemptively? I suppose that makes sense and would somewhat guard against LB probing.",
      "votes": null
    }
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  "comments": [
    {
      "id": 1696150,
      "author_name": "init27",
      "author_url": "",
      "post_date": "02/18/2022 16:17:48",
      "content": "<p>From what I understand, this is usually done to prevent LB probing 😅</p>",
      "votes": null,
      "replies": [
        {
          "id": 1696159,
          "author_name": "dschettler8845",
          "author_url": "",
          "post_date": "02/18/2022 16:22:24",
          "content": "<p>It totally makes sense. That being said, 2 decimal places is probably not enough. </p>\n<p>Maybe they plan to expand to more decimal places as needed instead of preemptively? I suppose that makes sense and would somewhat guard against LB probing.</p>",
          "votes": null,
          "replies": []
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "raw_markdown_by_id": {
    "1696148": "I wanted to raise this now as it will obviously become an issue as the competition progresses.\n\nThe previous competition had 4 decimal places and this one only has 2.\n\n@stefankahl @addisonhoward",
    "1696150": "From what I understand, this is usually done to prevent LB probing 😅",
    "1696159": "It totally makes sense. That being said, 2 decimal places is probably not enough. \n\nMaybe they plan to expand to more decimal places as needed instead of preemptively? I suppose that makes sense and would somewhat guard against LB probing."
  },
  "source": "meta"
}