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  "id": 7956,
  "title": "Manual steps allowed?",
  "url": "/competitions/decoding-the-human-brain/discussion/7956",
  "author_name": "",
  "post_date": "2014-05-01T13:08:23.030Z",
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  "content": "<p>I was wondering whether a manual step in the classification pipeline (e.g. manual identification of artifacts, channel selection) is allowed. Could anyone comment on this?</p>\n<p>(Of course this would&nbsp;happen without regard to the classification labels, as these are inaccessible for the test data.)</p>",
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      "id": "43444",
      "postDate": "05/01/2014 13:08:23",
      "content": "<p>I was wondering whether a manual step in the classification pipeline (e.g. manual identification of artifacts, channel selection) is allowed. Could anyone comment on this?</p>\n<p>(Of course this would&nbsp;happen without regard to the classification labels, as these are inaccessible for the test data.)</p>",
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    {
      "id": "43515",
      "postDate": "05/02/2014 14:56:15",
      "content": "<p>Hi,</p>\n<p>Manual steps in the pre-processing of the MEG data is a common practice in MEG data analysis.&nbsp;<span style=\"line-height: 1.4\">For this reason we accept them&nbsp;for this competition.&nbsp;</span>Notice that Kaggle requires the winners of the competition to publish the code and a&nbsp;description of their method, i.e. all automatic and manual steps have to be documented. We believe that this is sufficient to ensure that only fair (scientific) manual steps will be used.</p>",
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    {
      "id": 43515,
      "author_name": "emanuele",
      "author_url": "",
      "post_date": "05/02/2014 14:56:15",
      "content": "<p>Hi,</p>\n<p>Manual steps in the pre-processing of the MEG data is a common practice in MEG data analysis.&nbsp;<span style=\"line-height: 1.4\">For this reason we accept them&nbsp;for this competition.&nbsp;</span>Notice that Kaggle requires the winners of the competition to publish the code and a&nbsp;description of their method, i.e. all automatic and manual steps have to be documented. We believe that this is sufficient to ensure that only fair (scientific) manual steps will be used.</p>",
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