{
  "id": 29749,
  "title": "Winners announcement will be on March 14th",
  "url": "/competitions/dstl-satellite-imagery-feature-detection/discussion/29749",
  "author_name": "",
  "post_date": "2017-03-08T00:11:20.323169900Z",
  "votes": -25,
  "comment_count": 27,
  "views": 0,
  "content": "<p>Hi everyone, </p>\n\n<p>Thank you for participating in Dstl Satellite Imagery Feature Detection competition! We understand that this is a difficult one, with new data format and new metric with lots of technical difficulties. We are very happy to observe the community tackling the problem and helping each other. And thank you very much for joining us. </p>\n\n<p>I wanted to remind you that per Dstl's request, we will withhold the private leaderboard until March 14th in order to synchronize with their press release. This was communicated before the launch of the competition, but we didn't put it on the timeline pages. I apologize for any inconvenience. </p>\n\n<p>Again, great work to everyone and hope you have enjoyed the competition.</p>\n\n<p>Kaggle admin</p>",
  "messages": [
    {
      "id": "166001",
      "postDate": "03/08/2017 00:11:20",
      "content": "<p>Hi everyone, </p>\n\n<p>Thank you for participating in Dstl Satellite Imagery Feature Detection competition! We understand that this is a difficult one, with new data format and new metric with lots of technical difficulties. We are very happy to observe the community tackling the problem and helping each other. And thank you very much for joining us. </p>\n\n<p>I wanted to remind you that per Dstl's request, we will withhold the private leaderboard until March 14th in order to synchronize with their press release. This was communicated before the launch of the competition, but we didn't put it on the timeline pages. I apologize for any inconvenience. </p>\n\n<p>Again, great work to everyone and hope you have enjoyed the competition.</p>\n\n<p>Kaggle admin</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "Hi everyone, \n\nThank you for participating in Dstl Satellite Imagery Feature Detection competition! We understand that this is a difficult one, with new data format and new metric with lots of technical difficulties. We are very happy to observe the community tackling the problem and helping each other. And thank you very much for joining us. \n\nI wanted to remind you that per Dstl's request, we will withhold the private leaderboard until March 14th in order to synchronize with their press release. This was communicated before the launch of the competition, but we didn't put it on the timeline pages. I apologize for any inconvenience. \n\nAgain, great work to everyone and hope you have enjoyed the competition.\n\nKaggle admin",
      "votes": null
    },
    {
      "id": "166004",
      "postDate": "03/08/2017 00:27:13",
      "content": "<p>Come on, this is a cliffhanger at the end of the show. What a pity!</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "Come on, this is a cliffhanger at the end of the show. What a pity!",
      "votes": null
    },
    {
      "id": "166007",
      "postDate": "03/08/2017 00:30:17",
      "content": "<p>Yeah, so excited wanting to see the final result, but see this news...</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "Yeah, so excited wanting to see the final result, but see this news...",
      "votes": null
    },
    {
      "id": "166009",
      "postDate": "03/08/2017 00:34:02",
      "content": "<p>You guys just made a lot of people cry :)</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "You guys just made a lot of people cry :)",
      "votes": null
    },
    {
      "id": "166012",
      "postDate": "03/08/2017 00:48:51",
      "content": "<p>Let me tell a small story.</p>\n\n<p>I've i birthday on December 24. When I was 13, my parents promised to buy me a new PC as a birthday present.\nI was dreaming of it three weeks long and couldn't wait to play all the new games.\nBut in the morning I discovered that there aren't any signs of PC but just a postcard saying: \"Happy Birthday! ... We know we promised you a new PC, but we forgot to tell you that your PC will arrive only in New Year\"</p>\n\n<p>Could you imagine, how disappointed was I? The same feeling now, and not for me only.</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "Let me tell a small story.\n\nI've i birthday on December 24. When I was 13, my parents promised to buy me a new PC as a birthday present.\nI was dreaming of it three weeks long and couldn't wait to play all the new games.\nBut in the morning I discovered that there aren't any signs of PC but just a postcard saying: \"Happy Birthday! ... We know we promised you a new PC, but we forgot to tell you that your PC will arrive only in New Year\"\n\nCould you imagine, how disappointed was I? The same feeling now, and not for me only.",
      "votes": null
    },
    {
      "id": "166013",
      "postDate": "03/08/2017 01:03:20",
      "content": "<p>Don't be disappointed guys. A lot of you having the same results as you were using the same script. Therefore your score won't be jumping around that much on the PB. What important is, congratz to soon-to-be-announced winner and thanks DSTL for the data and Kaggle community for the shared knowledge. This competition truely showed many potential application of this type of problems: deforestation control, crop harvesting, resource (water) exploration, etc. </p>\n\n<p>Enjoy this video while waiting for your result: <a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HFlgNoUsr4k\">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HFlgNoUsr4k</a></p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "Don't be disappointed guys. A lot of you having the same results as you were using the same script. Therefore your score won't be jumping around that much on the PB. What important is, congratz to soon-to-be-announced winner and thanks DSTL for the data and Kaggle community for the shared knowledge. This competition truely showed many potential application of this type of problems: deforestation control, crop harvesting, resource (water) exploration, etc. \n\nEnjoy this video while waiting for your result: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HFlgNoUsr4k",
      "votes": null
    },
    {
      "id": "166024",
      "postDate": "03/08/2017 02:29:01",
      "content": "<p>There is an image representing how this competition helps to enlarge Earth satellite constellation.\n<img src=\"https://storage.googleapis.com/kaggle-forum-message-attachments/166024/6023/dstl.jpg\" alt=\"Liftoff\" title=\"\"></p>\n\n<p>Credits to @nizhib</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "There is an image representing how this competition helps to enlarge Earth satellite constellation.\n![Liftoff][1]\n\nCredits to @nizhib\n\n\n  [1]: https://kaggle2.blob.core.windows.net/forum-message-attachments/166024/6023/dstl.jpg",
      "votes": null
    },
    {
      "id": "166025",
      "postDate": "03/08/2017 02:30:24",
      "content": "<p>Any idea why DSTL didn't do a better job of syncing the Kaggle timeline with their press release? They had a couple of months...</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "Any idea why DSTL didn't do a better job of syncing the Kaggle timeline with their press release? They had a couple of months...",
      "votes": null
    },
    {
      "id": "166027",
      "postDate": "03/08/2017 02:40:58",
      "content": "<p>It is easy to be chill when you are on 100+ place (like myself). But imagine what it feels like for people from the top of the leaderboard :) People invested a lot of time and effort into this competition and deserve some respect.</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "It is easy to be chill when you are on 100+ place (like myself). But imagine what it feels like for people from the top of the leaderboard :) People invested a lot of time and effort into this competition and deserve some respect.",
      "votes": null
    },
    {
      "id": "166037",
      "postDate": "03/08/2017 03:25:19",
      "content": "<p>Well, I guess you guys take the wrong idea. Don't be negative here.</p>\n\n<p>Of course we all spent a lot of time, just more or less. </p>\n\n<p>Also everyone deserves any kind of respect mate. </p>\n\n<p>We always look-up to those who managed to get higher scores than ourselves. </p>\n\n<p>Again, remember, there is no loser in any competition. What important is what each individual has learnt and grew up from each challenge, and can take the ideas 'outside' the box.</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "Well, I guess you guys take the wrong idea. Don't be negative here.\n\nOf course we all spent a lot of time, just more or less. \n\nAlso everyone deserves any kind of respect mate. \n\nWe always look-up to those who managed to get higher scores than ourselves. \n\nAgain, remember, there is no loser in any competition. What important is what each individual has learnt and grew up from each challenge, and can take the ideas 'outside' the box.",
      "votes": null
    },
    {
      "id": "166040",
      "postDate": "03/08/2017 03:34:20",
      "content": "<p>Well, you can take any issue philosophically, but the point is: this situation was poorly handled and hopefully will be avoided in the future. </p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "Well, you can take any issue philosophically, but the point is: this situation was poorly handled and hopefully will be avoided in the future.",
      "votes": null
    },
    {
      "id": "166065",
      "postDate": "03/08/2017 07:20:48",
      "content": "<p>Good luck for everyone!</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "Good luck for everyone!",
      "votes": null
    },
    {
      "id": "166100",
      "postDate": "03/08/2017 11:38:18",
      "content": "<p>@WendyKan\nMany thanks for the great competition - learned a lot, hope there will be more Satellite Imagery competitions on Kaggle soon.</p>\n\n<p>Will you be posting more ground truth data for the images e.g. after the 14th of March - this would help those that built new models during the competition (and not just copied other peoples work to improve their rank) to refine them further. By that all the work gone into this will be brought to much better use.</p>\n\n<p>With all the 'noise' in the ranking providing additional test data might even profit the sponsor substantially - they could then do a second version of this contest soon (like their US counterparts are doing / have done with the SpaceNet challenges &amp; data sets).</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "WendyKan\nMany thanks for the great competition - learned a lot, hope there will be more Satellite Imagery competitions on Kaggle soon.\n\nWill you be posting more ground truth data for the images e.g. after the 14th of March - this would help those that built new models during the competition (and not just copied other peoples work to improve their rank) to refine them further. By that all the work gone into this will be brought to much better use.\n\nWith all the 'noise' in the ranking providing additional test data might even profit the sponsor substantially - they could then do a second version of this contest soon (like their US counterparts are doing / have done with the SpaceNet challenges & data sets).",
      "votes": null
    },
    {
      "id": "166121",
      "postDate": "03/08/2017 14:29:03",
      "content": "<p>@ Wendy,\nDo you now which time will be the press release? <br>\nThanks <br>\nironbar</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "Wendy,\nDo you now which time will be the press release?   \nThanks   \nironbar",
      "votes": null
    },
    {
      "id": "166444",
      "postDate": "03/09/2017 18:08:35",
      "content": "<p>To those eagerly awaiting the final leaderboard reveal, you can expect those results to be shared no later than the morning of March 15th, PDT.  We'll require the additional week to validate submissions, given the unique nature of this competition and evaluation metric.  Sorry for the inconvenience, but rest assured you'll have your standings soon enough!</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "To those eagerly awaiting the final leaderboard reveal, you can expect those results to be shared no later than the morning of March 15th, PDT.  We'll require the additional week to validate submissions, given the unique nature of this competition and evaluation metric.  Sorry for the inconvenience, but rest assured you'll have your standings soon enough!",
      "votes": null
    },
    {
      "id": "166456",
      "postDate": "03/09/2017 18:53:30",
      "content": "<p>@ironbar, we're getting some clarification on this. We'll update soon.</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "ironbar, we're getting some clarification on this. We'll update soon.",
      "votes": null
    },
    {
      "id": "167511",
      "postDate": "03/14/2017 11:54:37",
      "content": "<p>Any update @wendy? </p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "Any update @wendy?",
      "votes": null
    },
    {
      "id": "167605",
      "postDate": "03/14/2017 18:07:07",
      "content": "<p>there's an update from Julia Elliott above, also almost didn't find it: To those eagerly awaiting the final leaderboard reveal, you can expect those results to be shared no later than the morning of March 15th, PDT</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "there's an update from Julia Elliott above, also almost didn't find it: To those eagerly awaiting the final leaderboard reveal, you can expect those results to be shared no later than the morning of March 15th, PDT",
      "votes": null
    },
    {
      "id": "167681",
      "postDate": "03/15/2017 02:53:32",
      "content": "<p>@ Wendy Its 15th Mar now.</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "Wendy Its 15th Mar now.",
      "votes": null
    },
    {
      "id": "167686",
      "postDate": "03/15/2017 03:12:45",
      "content": "<p>Not in PDT timezone. 15+ more hours. Be patient :)</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "Not in PDT timezone. 15+ more hours. Be patient :)",
      "votes": null
    },
    {
      "id": "167725",
      "postDate": "03/15/2017 07:58:25",
      "content": "<p>I'm getting crazy with this waiting XD</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "I'm getting crazy with this waiting XD",
      "votes": null
    },
    {
      "id": "167760",
      "postDate": "03/15/2017 10:47:45",
      "content": "<p>Would go a lot easier with actual news</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "Would go a lot easier with actual news",
      "votes": null
    },
    {
      "id": "167765",
      "postDate": "03/15/2017 11:16:13",
      "content": "<p>The press release is online: <br>\n<a href=\"https://www.gov.uk/government/news/dstls-kaggle-competition-has-been-a-great-success\">https://www.gov.uk/government/news/dstls-kaggle-competition-has-been-a-great-success</a></p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "The press release is online:   \nhttps://www.gov.uk/government/news/dstls-kaggle-competition-has-been-a-great-success",
      "votes": null
    },
    {
      "id": "167766",
      "postDate": "03/15/2017 11:21:37",
      "content": "<p>@Vladimir you'll be sleeping all this time but we are not!</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "Vladimir you'll be sleeping all this time but we are not!",
      "votes": null
    },
    {
      "id": "167783",
      "postDate": "03/15/2017 12:58:45",
      "content": "<p>Press release has come. We don't need to wait longer.<br>\n<a href=\"https://www.gov.uk/government/news/dstls-kaggle-competition-has-been-a-great-success\">https://www.gov.uk/government/news/dstls-kaggle-competition-has-been-a-great-success</a></p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "Press release has come. We don't need to wait longer.<br>\n[https://www.gov.uk/government/news/dstls-kaggle-competition-has-been-a-great-success][1]\n\n\n  [1]: https://www.gov.uk/government/news/dstls-kaggle-competition-has-been-a-great-success",
      "votes": null
    },
    {
      "id": "167804",
      "postDate": "03/15/2017 14:21:08",
      "content": "<p>The results are public !</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "The results are public !",
      "votes": null
    },
    {
      "id": "167807",
      "postDate": "03/15/2017 14:41:32",
      "content": "<p>It has been released! Congratz to your being Top 10</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "It has been released! Congratz to your being Top 10",
      "votes": null
    },
    {
      "id": "167883",
      "postDate": "03/15/2017 18:28:00",
      "content": "<p>congrats to all the winners, feel really sorry for team \"alno &amp; kostia &amp; deepsystems\" for dropping out of the 2nd place :(</p>\n\n<p>I must say I'm really surprised by the big movements - it's really interesting to see that the best solutions got worse final score (almost all -0.08) but some of the \"worse\" performers got a real big improvement in the private leaderboard - there are really many guys who moved by 80 places and even more</p>\n\n<p>@Wendy - any explanation of that ? I mean the classes were really unbalanced, but at least the test split should habe been a bit \"cleaner\" imo</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "congrats to all the winners, feel really sorry for team \"alno & kostia & deepsystems\" for dropping out of the 2nd place :(\n\nI must say I'm really surprised by the big movements - it's really interesting to see that the best solutions got worse final score (almost all -0.08) but some of the \"worse\" performers got a real big improvement in the private leaderboard - there are really many guys who moved by 80 places and even more\n\n@Wendy - any explanation of that ? I mean the classes were really unbalanced, but at least the test split should habe been a bit \"cleaner\" imo",
      "votes": null
    }
  ],
  "comments": [
    {
      "id": 166004,
      "author_name": "justfor",
      "author_url": "",
      "post_date": "03/08/2017 00:27:13",
      "content": "<p>Come on, this is a cliffhanger at the end of the show. What a pity!</p>",
      "votes": null,
      "replies": [
        {
          "id": 166007,
          "author_name": "lihaorocky",
          "author_url": "",
          "post_date": "03/08/2017 00:30:17",
          "content": "<p>Yeah, so excited wanting to see the final result, but see this news...</p>",
          "votes": null,
          "replies": []
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": 166009,
      "author_name": "yankov",
      "author_url": "",
      "post_date": "03/08/2017 00:34:02",
      "content": "<p>You guys just made a lot of people cry :)</p>",
      "votes": null,
      "replies": []
    },
    {
      "id": 166012,
      "author_name": "greenwolf",
      "author_url": "",
      "post_date": "03/08/2017 00:48:51",
      "content": "<p>Let me tell a small story.</p>\n\n<p>I've i birthday on December 24. When I was 13, my parents promised to buy me a new PC as a birthday present.\nI was dreaming of it three weeks long and couldn't wait to play all the new games.\nBut in the morning I discovered that there aren't any signs of PC but just a postcard saying: \"Happy Birthday! ... We know we promised you a new PC, but we forgot to tell you that your PC will arrive only in New Year\"</p>\n\n<p>Could you imagine, how disappointed was I? The same feeling now, and not for me only.</p>",
      "votes": null,
      "replies": []
    },
    {
      "id": 166013,
      "author_name": "lpachuong",
      "author_url": "",
      "post_date": "03/08/2017 01:03:20",
      "content": "<p>Don't be disappointed guys. A lot of you having the same results as you were using the same script. Therefore your score won't be jumping around that much on the PB. What important is, congratz to soon-to-be-announced winner and thanks DSTL for the data and Kaggle community for the shared knowledge. This competition truely showed many potential application of this type of problems: deforestation control, crop harvesting, resource (water) exploration, etc. </p>\n\n<p>Enjoy this video while waiting for your result: <a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HFlgNoUsr4k\">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HFlgNoUsr4k</a></p>",
      "votes": null,
      "replies": [
        {
          "id": 166027,
          "author_name": "yankov",
          "author_url": "",
          "post_date": "03/08/2017 02:40:58",
          "content": "<p>It is easy to be chill when you are on 100+ place (like myself). But imagine what it feels like for people from the top of the leaderboard :) People invested a lot of time and effort into this competition and deserve some respect.</p>",
          "votes": null,
          "replies": []
        },
        {
          "id": 166037,
          "author_name": "lpachuong",
          "author_url": "",
          "post_date": "03/08/2017 03:25:19",
          "content": "<p>Well, I guess you guys take the wrong idea. Don't be negative here.</p>\n\n<p>Of course we all spent a lot of time, just more or less. </p>\n\n<p>Also everyone deserves any kind of respect mate. </p>\n\n<p>We always look-up to those who managed to get higher scores than ourselves. </p>\n\n<p>Again, remember, there is no loser in any competition. What important is what each individual has learnt and grew up from each challenge, and can take the ideas 'outside' the box.</p>",
          "votes": null,
          "replies": []
        },
        {
          "id": 166040,
          "author_name": "yankov",
          "author_url": "",
          "post_date": "03/08/2017 03:34:20",
          "content": "<p>Well, you can take any issue philosophically, but the point is: this situation was poorly handled and hopefully will be avoided in the future. </p>",
          "votes": null,
          "replies": []
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": 166024,
      "author_name": "ceperaang",
      "author_url": "",
      "post_date": "03/08/2017 02:29:01",
      "content": "<p>There is an image representing how this competition helps to enlarge Earth satellite constellation.\n<img src=\"https://storage.googleapis.com/kaggle-forum-message-attachments/166024/6023/dstl.jpg\" alt=\"Liftoff\" title=\"\"></p>\n\n<p>Credits to @nizhib</p>",
      "votes": null,
      "replies": []
    },
    {
      "id": 166025,
      "author_name": "jpmiller",
      "author_url": "",
      "post_date": "03/08/2017 02:30:24",
      "content": "<p>Any idea why DSTL didn't do a better job of syncing the Kaggle timeline with their press release? They had a couple of months...</p>",
      "votes": null,
      "replies": []
    },
    {
      "id": 166065,
      "author_name": "ironbar",
      "author_url": "",
      "post_date": "03/08/2017 07:20:48",
      "content": "<p>Good luck for everyone!</p>",
      "votes": null,
      "replies": []
    },
    {
      "id": 166100,
      "author_name": "fppkaggle",
      "author_url": "",
      "post_date": "03/08/2017 11:38:18",
      "content": "<p>@WendyKan\nMany thanks for the great competition - learned a lot, hope there will be more Satellite Imagery competitions on Kaggle soon.</p>\n\n<p>Will you be posting more ground truth data for the images e.g. after the 14th of March - this would help those that built new models during the competition (and not just copied other peoples work to improve their rank) to refine them further. By that all the work gone into this will be brought to much better use.</p>\n\n<p>With all the 'noise' in the ranking providing additional test data might even profit the sponsor substantially - they could then do a second version of this contest soon (like their US counterparts are doing / have done with the SpaceNet challenges &amp; data sets).</p>",
      "votes": null,
      "replies": []
    },
    {
      "id": 166121,
      "author_name": "ironbar",
      "author_url": "",
      "post_date": "03/08/2017 14:29:03",
      "content": "<p>@ Wendy,\nDo you now which time will be the press release? <br>\nThanks <br>\nironbar</p>",
      "votes": null,
      "replies": [
        {
          "id": 166456,
          "author_name": "wendykan",
          "author_url": "",
          "post_date": "03/09/2017 18:53:30",
          "content": "<p>@ironbar, we're getting some clarification on this. We'll update soon.</p>",
          "votes": null,
          "replies": []
        },
        {
          "id": 167511,
          "author_name": "ironbar",
          "author_url": "",
          "post_date": "03/14/2017 11:54:37",
          "content": "<p>Any update @wendy? </p>",
          "votes": null,
          "replies": []
        },
        {
          "id": 167605,
          "author_name": "steelrose",
          "author_url": "",
          "post_date": "03/14/2017 18:07:07",
          "content": "<p>there's an update from Julia Elliott above, also almost didn't find it: To those eagerly awaiting the final leaderboard reveal, you can expect those results to be shared no later than the morning of March 15th, PDT</p>",
          "votes": null,
          "replies": []
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": 166444,
      "author_name": "juliaelliott",
      "author_url": "",
      "post_date": "03/09/2017 18:08:35",
      "content": "<p>To those eagerly awaiting the final leaderboard reveal, you can expect those results to be shared no later than the morning of March 15th, PDT.  We'll require the additional week to validate submissions, given the unique nature of this competition and evaluation metric.  Sorry for the inconvenience, but rest assured you'll have your standings soon enough!</p>",
      "votes": null,
      "replies": []
    },
    {
      "id": 167681,
      "author_name": "samihaq",
      "author_url": "",
      "post_date": "03/15/2017 02:53:32",
      "content": "<p>@ Wendy Its 15th Mar now.</p>",
      "votes": null,
      "replies": [
        {
          "id": 167686,
          "author_name": "iglovikov",
          "author_url": "",
          "post_date": "03/15/2017 03:12:45",
          "content": "<p>Not in PDT timezone. 15+ more hours. Be patient :)</p>",
          "votes": null,
          "replies": []
        },
        {
          "id": 167725,
          "author_name": "ironbar",
          "author_url": "",
          "post_date": "03/15/2017 07:58:25",
          "content": "<p>I'm getting crazy with this waiting XD</p>",
          "votes": null,
          "replies": []
        },
        {
          "id": 167766,
          "author_name": "ceperaang",
          "author_url": "",
          "post_date": "03/15/2017 11:21:37",
          "content": "<p>@Vladimir you'll be sleeping all this time but we are not!</p>",
          "votes": null,
          "replies": []
        },
        {
          "id": 167783,
          "author_name": "toshik",
          "author_url": "",
          "post_date": "03/15/2017 12:58:45",
          "content": "<p>Press release has come. We don't need to wait longer.<br>\n<a href=\"https://www.gov.uk/government/news/dstls-kaggle-competition-has-been-a-great-success\">https://www.gov.uk/government/news/dstls-kaggle-competition-has-been-a-great-success</a></p>",
          "votes": null,
          "replies": []
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": 167760,
      "author_name": "mxdbld",
      "author_url": "",
      "post_date": "03/15/2017 10:47:45",
      "content": "<p>Would go a lot easier with actual news</p>",
      "votes": null,
      "replies": []
    },
    {
      "id": 167765,
      "author_name": "ironbar",
      "author_url": "",
      "post_date": "03/15/2017 11:16:13",
      "content": "<p>The press release is online: <br>\n<a href=\"https://www.gov.uk/government/news/dstls-kaggle-competition-has-been-a-great-success\">https://www.gov.uk/government/news/dstls-kaggle-competition-has-been-a-great-success</a></p>",
      "votes": null,
      "replies": []
    },
    {
      "id": 167804,
      "author_name": "mxdbld",
      "author_url": "",
      "post_date": "03/15/2017 14:21:08",
      "content": "<p>The results are public !</p>",
      "votes": null,
      "replies": [
        {
          "id": 167807,
          "author_name": "lpachuong",
          "author_url": "",
          "post_date": "03/15/2017 14:41:32",
          "content": "<p>It has been released! Congratz to your being Top 10</p>",
          "votes": null,
          "replies": []
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": 167883,
      "author_name": "steelrose",
      "author_url": "",
      "post_date": "03/15/2017 18:28:00",
      "content": "<p>congrats to all the winners, feel really sorry for team \"alno &amp; kostia &amp; deepsystems\" for dropping out of the 2nd place :(</p>\n\n<p>I must say I'm really surprised by the big movements - it's really interesting to see that the best solutions got worse final score (almost all -0.08) but some of the \"worse\" performers got a real big improvement in the private leaderboard - there are really many guys who moved by 80 places and even more</p>\n\n<p>@Wendy - any explanation of that ? I mean the classes were really unbalanced, but at least the test split should habe been a bit \"cleaner\" imo</p>",
      "votes": null,
      "replies": []
    }
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    "166001": "Hi everyone, \n\nThank you for participating in Dstl Satellite Imagery Feature Detection competition! We understand that this is a difficult one, with new data format and new metric with lots of technical difficulties. We are very happy to observe the community tackling the problem and helping each other. And thank you very much for joining us. \n\nI wanted to remind you that per Dstl's request, we will withhold the private leaderboard until March 14th in order to synchronize with their press release. This was communicated before the launch of the competition, but we didn't put it on the timeline pages. I apologize for any inconvenience. \n\nAgain, great work to everyone and hope you have enjoyed the competition.\n\nKaggle admin",
    "166004": "Come on, this is a cliffhanger at the end of the show. What a pity!",
    "166007": "Yeah, so excited wanting to see the final result, but see this news...",
    "166009": "You guys just made a lot of people cry :)",
    "166012": "Let me tell a small story.\n\nI've i birthday on December 24. When I was 13, my parents promised to buy me a new PC as a birthday present.\nI was dreaming of it three weeks long and couldn't wait to play all the new games.\nBut in the morning I discovered that there aren't any signs of PC but just a postcard saying: \"Happy Birthday! ... We know we promised you a new PC, but we forgot to tell you that your PC will arrive only in New Year\"\n\nCould you imagine, how disappointed was I? The same feeling now, and not for me only.",
    "166013": "Don't be disappointed guys. A lot of you having the same results as you were using the same script. Therefore your score won't be jumping around that much on the PB. What important is, congratz to soon-to-be-announced winner and thanks DSTL for the data and Kaggle community for the shared knowledge. This competition truely showed many potential application of this type of problems: deforestation control, crop harvesting, resource (water) exploration, etc. \n\nEnjoy this video while waiting for your result: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HFlgNoUsr4k",
    "166024": "There is an image representing how this competition helps to enlarge Earth satellite constellation.\n![Liftoff][1]\n\nCredits to @nizhib\n\n\n  [1]: https://kaggle2.blob.core.windows.net/forum-message-attachments/166024/6023/dstl.jpg",
    "166025": "Any idea why DSTL didn't do a better job of syncing the Kaggle timeline with their press release? They had a couple of months...",
    "166027": "It is easy to be chill when you are on 100+ place (like myself). But imagine what it feels like for people from the top of the leaderboard :) People invested a lot of time and effort into this competition and deserve some respect.",
    "166037": "Well, I guess you guys take the wrong idea. Don't be negative here.\n\nOf course we all spent a lot of time, just more or less. \n\nAlso everyone deserves any kind of respect mate. \n\nWe always look-up to those who managed to get higher scores than ourselves. \n\nAgain, remember, there is no loser in any competition. What important is what each individual has learnt and grew up from each challenge, and can take the ideas 'outside' the box.",
    "166040": "Well, you can take any issue philosophically, but the point is: this situation was poorly handled and hopefully will be avoided in the future.",
    "166065": "Good luck for everyone!",
    "166100": "WendyKan\nMany thanks for the great competition - learned a lot, hope there will be more Satellite Imagery competitions on Kaggle soon.\n\nWill you be posting more ground truth data for the images e.g. after the 14th of March - this would help those that built new models during the competition (and not just copied other peoples work to improve their rank) to refine them further. By that all the work gone into this will be brought to much better use.\n\nWith all the 'noise' in the ranking providing additional test data might even profit the sponsor substantially - they could then do a second version of this contest soon (like their US counterparts are doing / have done with the SpaceNet challenges & data sets).",
    "166121": "Wendy,\nDo you now which time will be the press release?   \nThanks   \nironbar",
    "166444": "To those eagerly awaiting the final leaderboard reveal, you can expect those results to be shared no later than the morning of March 15th, PDT.  We'll require the additional week to validate submissions, given the unique nature of this competition and evaluation metric.  Sorry for the inconvenience, but rest assured you'll have your standings soon enough!",
    "166456": "ironbar, we're getting some clarification on this. We'll update soon.",
    "167511": "Any update @wendy?",
    "167605": "there's an update from Julia Elliott above, also almost didn't find it: To those eagerly awaiting the final leaderboard reveal, you can expect those results to be shared no later than the morning of March 15th, PDT",
    "167681": "Wendy Its 15th Mar now.",
    "167686": "Not in PDT timezone. 15+ more hours. Be patient :)",
    "167725": "I'm getting crazy with this waiting XD",
    "167760": "Would go a lot easier with actual news",
    "167765": "The press release is online:   \nhttps://www.gov.uk/government/news/dstls-kaggle-competition-has-been-a-great-success",
    "167766": "Vladimir you'll be sleeping all this time but we are not!",
    "167783": "Press release has come. We don't need to wait longer.<br>\n[https://www.gov.uk/government/news/dstls-kaggle-competition-has-been-a-great-success][1]\n\n\n  [1]: https://www.gov.uk/government/news/dstls-kaggle-competition-has-been-a-great-success",
    "167804": "The results are public !",
    "167807": "It has been released! Congratz to your being Top 10",
    "167883": "congrats to all the winners, feel really sorry for team \"alno & kostia & deepsystems\" for dropping out of the 2nd place :(\n\nI must say I'm really surprised by the big movements - it's really interesting to see that the best solutions got worse final score (almost all -0.08) but some of the \"worse\" performers got a real big improvement in the private leaderboard - there are really many guys who moved by 80 places and even more\n\n@Wendy - any explanation of that ? I mean the classes were really unbalanced, but at least the test split should habe been a bit \"cleaner\" imo"
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