{
  "id": 394413,
  "title": "Failing to Understand the Metric",
  "url": "/competitions/birdclef-2023/discussion/394413",
  "author_name": "",
  "post_date": "2023-03-13T13:11:50.228257300Z",
  "votes": 1,
  "comment_count": 1,
  "views": 0,
  "content": "<p>I don't understand why the competition metric uses 5 padding rows. Whoever knows more about the reasoning behind this, could you explain it for me?</p>",
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    {
      "id": "2179871",
      "postDate": "03/13/2023 13:11:50",
      "content": "<p>I don't understand why the competition metric uses 5 padding rows. Whoever knows more about the reasoning behind this, could you explain it for me?</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "I don't understand why the competition metric uses 5 padding rows. Whoever knows more about the reasoning behind this, could you explain it for me?",
      "votes": null
    },
    {
      "id": "2180067",
      "postDate": "03/13/2023 15:06:30",
      "content": "<p>Hi, Ivan;<br>\nFor species with very few examples, the mAP score can be very noisy. The padding rows limit the noise from the species with few examples, while still allowing them to make some contribution to the final score.</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "Hi, Ivan;\nFor species with very few examples, the mAP score can be very noisy. The padding rows limit the noise from the species with few examples, while still allowing them to make some contribution to the final score.",
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  "comments": [
    {
      "id": 2180067,
      "author_name": "tomdenton",
      "author_url": "",
      "post_date": "03/13/2023 15:06:30",
      "content": "<p>Hi, Ivan;<br>\nFor species with very few examples, the mAP score can be very noisy. The padding rows limit the noise from the species with few examples, while still allowing them to make some contribution to the final score.</p>",
      "votes": null,
      "replies": []
    }
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    "2179871": "I don't understand why the competition metric uses 5 padding rows. Whoever knows more about the reasoning behind this, could you explain it for me?",
    "2180067": "Hi, Ivan;\nFor species with very few examples, the mAP score can be very noisy. The padding rows limit the noise from the species with few examples, while still allowing them to make some contribution to the final score."
  },
  "source": "meta"
}