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  "id": 14968,
  "title": "Looking to collaborate (we have a large  supercomputer cluster)",
  "url": "/competitions/diabetic-retinopathy-detection/discussion/14968",
  "author_name": "",
  "post_date": "2015-07-01T03:58:20.223Z",
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  "comment_count": 5,
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  "content": "<p>Hello everyone,</p>\n<p>We are a bit late to the party, but we want to compete in this competition.</p>\n<p>My friend and I are undergrads from the University of Waterloo.&nbsp; We got access to large cluster of supercomputers running apache spark with 20 nodes ( 2 sockets/node&nbsp; x 10 core per socket (xeons E5's @ 2.6 GHz), 256.0 GB RAM and NVIDIA tesla K20m's which we have permission to use for this competition.</p>\n<p>We are both relatively new to to deep learning, barely playing with CNNs, but we just got theano and lasagne currently running on the GPU's.</p>\n<p>We are looking to learn as much as we can and was looking for someone (or more) who can collaborate with.&nbsp; For trading your knowledge on deep learning we promise to do our best to approach the problem.</p>\n<p>You can contact me here or at andrew *at* andrewandrade.ca</p>\n<p>Best,</p>\n<p>Andrew</p>",
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      "id": "83044",
      "postDate": "07/01/2015 03:58:20",
      "content": "<p>Hello everyone,</p>\n<p>We are a bit late to the party, but we want to compete in this competition.</p>\n<p>My friend and I are undergrads from the University of Waterloo.&nbsp; We got access to large cluster of supercomputers running apache spark with 20 nodes ( 2 sockets/node&nbsp; x 10 core per socket (xeons E5's @ 2.6 GHz), 256.0 GB RAM and NVIDIA tesla K20m's which we have permission to use for this competition.</p>\n<p>We are both relatively new to to deep learning, barely playing with CNNs, but we just got theano and lasagne currently running on the GPU's.</p>\n<p>We are looking to learn as much as we can and was looking for someone (or more) who can collaborate with.&nbsp; For trading your knowledge on deep learning we promise to do our best to approach the problem.</p>\n<p>You can contact me here or at andrew *at* andrewandrade.ca</p>\n<p>Best,</p>\n<p>Andrew</p>",
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      "id": "83276",
      "postDate": "07/02/2015 20:59:02",
      "content": "<p>Hey we can make a team if you like. I am very familiar&nbsp;with caffe, lasagne+ nolearn</p>",
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      "id": "83674",
      "postDate": "07/07/2015 16:21:53",
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      "id": "83778",
      "postDate": "07/08/2015 10:50:32",
      "content": "<p>Hey Andrew! You guys still still looking to collab? I'm new on here too and interested in joining your team. i'm a grad student with research focus on signal processing and ML. i've worked with theano (keras and lasagne), and a little of torch and caffe. never done a kaggle competition though, so i'm excited to give it a shot. let me know! </p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "Hey Andrew! You guys still still looking to collab? I'm new on here too and interested in joining your team. i'm a grad student with research focus on signal processing and ML. i've worked with theano (keras and lasagne), and a little of torch and caffe. never done a kaggle competition though, so i'm excited to give it a shot. let me know!",
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      "id": "83788",
      "postDate": "07/08/2015 13:17:23",
      "content": "<p>Hi Andrew, I'm a graduate student in USA and i'm interested in join your group. I've completed a few kaggle competitions and mostly using R and sometimes Python. Looking forward to team up and to learn!</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "Hi Andrew, I'm a graduate student in USA and i'm interested in join your group. I've completed a few kaggle competitions and mostly using R and sometimes Python. Looking forward to team up and to learn!",
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      "id": "83988",
      "postDate": "07/10/2015 00:09:35",
      "content": "<p>Hey everyone,</p>\n\n<p>Sorry for the really late reply.  I am a bit jammed with school and other commitments for the next few weeks, so I don't think I will be able to compete in this one but I forwarded the emails (and this thread) over to my friend.</p>\n\n<p>Best,</p>\n\n<p>Andrew</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "Hey everyone,\r\n\r\nSorry for the really late reply.  I am a bit jammed with school and other commitments for the next few weeks, so I don't think I will be able to compete in this one but I forwarded the emails (and this thread) over to my friend.\r\n\r\nBest,\r\n\r\nAndrew",
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      "author_name": "albarazanchi",
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      "post_date": "07/02/2015 20:59:02",
      "content": "<p>Hey we can make a team if you like. I am very familiar&nbsp;with caffe, lasagne+ nolearn</p>",
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      "id": 83674,
      "author_name": "tanayz",
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      "post_date": "07/07/2015 16:21:53",
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      "id": 83778,
      "author_name": "justiceamoh",
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      "post_date": "07/08/2015 10:50:32",
      "content": "<p>Hey Andrew! You guys still still looking to collab? I'm new on here too and interested in joining your team. i'm a grad student with research focus on signal processing and ML. i've worked with theano (keras and lasagne), and a little of torch and caffe. never done a kaggle competition though, so i'm excited to give it a shot. let me know! </p>",
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      "id": 83788,
      "author_name": "lancerts",
      "author_url": "",
      "post_date": "07/08/2015 13:17:23",
      "content": "<p>Hi Andrew, I'm a graduate student in USA and i'm interested in join your group. I've completed a few kaggle competitions and mostly using R and sometimes Python. Looking forward to team up and to learn!</p>",
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      "id": 83988,
      "author_name": "mrandrewandrade",
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      "post_date": "07/10/2015 00:09:35",
      "content": "<p>Hey everyone,</p>\n\n<p>Sorry for the really late reply.  I am a bit jammed with school and other commitments for the next few weeks, so I don't think I will be able to compete in this one but I forwarded the emails (and this thread) over to my friend.</p>\n\n<p>Best,</p>\n\n<p>Andrew</p>",
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    "83778": "Hey Andrew! You guys still still looking to collab? I'm new on here too and interested in joining your team. i'm a grad student with research focus on signal processing and ML. i've worked with theano (keras and lasagne), and a little of torch and caffe. never done a kaggle competition though, so i'm excited to give it a shot. let me know!",
    "83788": "Hi Andrew, I'm a graduate student in USA and i'm interested in join your group. I've completed a few kaggle competitions and mostly using R and sometimes Python. Looking forward to team up and to learn!",
    "83988": "Hey everyone,\r\n\r\nSorry for the really late reply.  I am a bit jammed with school and other commitments for the next few weeks, so I don't think I will be able to compete in this one but I forwarded the emails (and this thread) over to my friend.\r\n\r\nBest,\r\n\r\nAndrew"
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