{
  "id": 95662,
  "title": "Challenge Citizenship Award to daisukelab",
  "url": "/competitions/freesound-audio-tagging-2019/discussion/95662",
  "author_name": "",
  "post_date": "2019-06-13T22:52:21.877864100Z",
  "votes": 38,
  "comment_count": 10,
  "views": 0,
  "content": "<p>Dear all, </p>\n\n<p>while we wait for the final results, the organizers would like to give special thanks to @daisukelab , who has probably been the most popular (and most thanked) participant, who has selflessly shared kernels and data and ideas, not only this year but also in last year's competition.</p>\n\n<p>Congratulations @daisukelab , and thanks for your tireless dedication to promote open knowledge and research.</p>\n\n<p>--\nThe organizers</p>\n\n<ul>\n<li><p><a href=\"http://www.eduardofonseca.net/\">Eduardo Fonseca</a>, <a href=\"https://www.upf.edu/web/mtg\">MTG-UPF</a>, Barcelona <a href=\"https://twitter.com/edfonseca_\"></a><a href=\"https://twitter.com/edfonseca_\">https://twitter.com/edfonseca_</a></p></li>\n<li><p><a href=\"https://ai.google/research/people/author8115\">Manoj Plakal</a>, <a href=\"https://research.google.com/audioset////////about.html\">Google's Sound Understanding</a>, New York</p></li>\n<li><p><a href=\"https://ffont.github.io/\">Frederic Font</a>, <a href=\"https://www.upf.edu/web/mtg\">MTG-UPF</a>, Barcelona</p></li>\n<li><p><a href=\"https://ai.google/research/people/DanEllis\">Dan Ellis</a>, <a href=\"https://research.google.com/audioset////////about.html\">Google's Sound Understanding</a>, New York</p></li>\n</ul>",
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    {
      "id": "552407",
      "postDate": "06/13/2019 22:52:21",
      "content": "<p>Dear all, </p>\n\n<p>while we wait for the final results, the organizers would like to give special thanks to @daisukelab , who has probably been the most popular (and most thanked) participant, who has selflessly shared kernels and data and ideas, not only this year but also in last year's competition.</p>\n\n<p>Congratulations @daisukelab , and thanks for your tireless dedication to promote open knowledge and research.</p>\n\n<p>--\nThe organizers</p>\n\n<ul>\n<li><p><a href=\"http://www.eduardofonseca.net/\">Eduardo Fonseca</a>, <a href=\"https://www.upf.edu/web/mtg\">MTG-UPF</a>, Barcelona <a href=\"https://twitter.com/edfonseca_\"></a><a href=\"https://twitter.com/edfonseca_\">https://twitter.com/edfonseca_</a></p></li>\n<li><p><a href=\"https://ai.google/research/people/author8115\">Manoj Plakal</a>, <a href=\"https://research.google.com/audioset////////about.html\">Google's Sound Understanding</a>, New York</p></li>\n<li><p><a href=\"https://ffont.github.io/\">Frederic Font</a>, <a href=\"https://www.upf.edu/web/mtg\">MTG-UPF</a>, Barcelona</p></li>\n<li><p><a href=\"https://ai.google/research/people/DanEllis\">Dan Ellis</a>, <a href=\"https://research.google.com/audioset////////about.html\">Google's Sound Understanding</a>, New York</p></li>\n</ul>",
      "rawMarkdown": "Dear all, \n\nwhile we wait for the final results, the organizers would like to give special thanks to @daisukelab , who has probably been the most popular (and most thanked) participant, who has selflessly shared kernels and data and ideas, not only this year but also in last year's competition.\n\nCongratulations @daisukelab , and thanks for your tireless dedication to promote open knowledge and research.\n\n--\nThe organizers\n\n - <a href=\"http://www.eduardofonseca.net/\">Eduardo Fonseca</a>, <a href=\"https://www.upf.edu/web/mtg\">MTG-UPF</a>, Barcelona <a href=\"https://twitter.com/edfonseca_\">https://twitter.com/edfonseca_</a>\n\n - <a href=\"https://ai.google/research/people/author8115\">Manoj Plakal</a>, <a href=\"https://research.google.com/audioset////////about.html\">Google's Sound Understanding</a>, New York\n\n - <a href=\"https://ffont.github.io/\">Frederic Font</a>, <a href=\"https://www.upf.edu/web/mtg\">MTG-UPF</a>, Barcelona\n\n - <a href=\"https://ai.google/research/people/DanEllis\">Dan Ellis</a>, <a href=\"https://research.google.com/audioset////////about.html\">Google's Sound Understanding</a>, New York",
      "votes": null
    },
    {
      "id": "552411",
      "postDate": "06/13/2019 23:12:52",
      "content": "<p>Thanks <a href=\"/daisukelab\">@daisukelab</a>  👍 (one more time)!</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "Thanks @daisukelab  👍 (one more time)!",
      "votes": null
    },
    {
      "id": "552492",
      "postDate": "06/14/2019 03:46:04",
      "content": "<p>Congratulations <a href=\"https://www.kaggle.com/daisukelab\"></a><a href=\"/daisukelab\">@daisukelab</a> and many thanks for sharing your kernels and solutions. Learnt a lot from it.</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "Congratulations [@daisukelab](https://www.kaggle.com/daisukelab) and many thanks for sharing your kernels and solutions. Learnt a lot from it.",
      "votes": null
    },
    {
      "id": "552497",
      "postDate": "06/14/2019 04:00:01",
      "content": "<p>(This is lunch time in Japan, I opened Kaggle to check if there's any update, and surprised when I found this thread...)</p>\n\n<p>Thank you very much for acknowledgement, but I appreciate more that Kaggle keeps its community as an open competitive space.</p>\n\n<p>My long term goal or dream is machine perception/understanding. And I'm current (and still long term) focus is sound scene understanding because my career started with digital music instrument development.\n(Last product I worked for was: <a href=\"https://www.boss.info/global/products/br-1200cd/\">https://www.boss.info/global/products/br-1200cd/</a> about 15 years back, now working for more general electric appliances...)\nThen basically this competition is just best fit with my purpose.</p>\n\n<p>And I believe open strategy is the best for making things move forward, it is natural to share informations in community and encourage something to happen.\nSo I'd like to clarify that my actions come basically from my own motivation, and it's for me to say thank you for having made your solutions improve more, and sharing with community.</p>\n\n<p>I already have learned from discussions/solutions (thank you all), and hoping some more other solutions to be shared in the future :).\nEven if it isn't be on the higher end of LB, any of your new ideas tried in this competition would help somebody else's future inventions.</p>\n\n<p>Lastly, thank you to the organizers again for holding this wonderful competition.</p>\n\n<p>...we are still waiting for 2nd stage results!</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "(This is lunch time in Japan, I opened Kaggle to check if there's any update, and surprised when I found this thread...)\n\nThank you very much for acknowledgement, but I appreciate more that Kaggle keeps its community as an open competitive space.\n\nMy long term goal or dream is machine perception/understanding. And I'm current (and still long term) focus is sound scene understanding because my career started with digital music instrument development.\n(Last product I worked for was: https://www.boss.info/global/products/br-1200cd/ about 15 years back, now working for more general electric appliances...)\nThen basically this competition is just best fit with my purpose.\n\nAnd I believe open strategy is the best for making things move forward, it is natural to share informations in community and encourage something to happen.\nSo I'd like to clarify that my actions come basically from my own motivation, and it's for me to say thank you for having made your solutions improve more, and sharing with community.\n\nI already have learned from discussions/solutions (thank you all), and hoping some more other solutions to be shared in the future :).\nEven if it isn't be on the higher end of LB, any of your new ideas tried in this competition would help somebody else's future inventions.\n\nLastly, thank you to the organizers again for holding this wonderful competition.\n\n...we are still waiting for 2nd stage results!",
      "votes": null
    },
    {
      "id": "552588",
      "postDate": "06/14/2019 06:58:22",
      "content": "<p>Congratulations and you deserve it. Thanks for the discussion and kernels you share. <a href=\"/daisukelab\">@daisukelab</a> </p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "Congratulations and you deserve it. Thanks for the discussion and kernels you share. @daisukelab",
      "votes": null
    },
    {
      "id": "552803",
      "postDate": "06/14/2019 14:44:07",
      "content": "<p>Thanks <a href=\"/daisukelab\">@daisukelab</a> :)</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "Thanks @daisukelab :)",
      "votes": null
    },
    {
      "id": "553342",
      "postDate": "06/15/2019 14:22:31",
      "content": "<p>Thank you <a href=\"/daisukelab\">@daisukelab</a> . Your generous sharing of kernels and ideas helped us a lot in this competition. I hope to continue learning from you.</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "Thank you @daisukelab . Your generous sharing of kernels and ideas helped us a lot in this competition. I hope to continue learning from you.",
      "votes": null
    },
    {
      "id": "553593",
      "postDate": "06/16/2019 02:07:01",
      "content": "<p>When I talk about Kaggle to machine learning students, it is hard for them to believe how a platform of competition can work in a collaborative way. Now I have your comment to make the explanation much easier. Please, continue with your good work.</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "When I talk about Kaggle to machine learning students, it is hard for them to believe how a platform of competition can work in a collaborative way. Now I have your comment to make the explanation much easier. Please, continue with your good work.",
      "votes": null
    },
    {
      "id": "554300",
      "postDate": "06/17/2019 08:43:31",
      "content": "<p>Thank you <a href=\"/daisukelab\">@daisukelab</a> . Your kernel helped me a lot.</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "Thank you @daisukelab . Your kernel helped me a lot.",
      "votes": null
    },
    {
      "id": "555033",
      "postDate": "06/18/2019 10:50:42",
      "content": "<p>Thank you very much for your active knowledge sharing. All have been very helpful :) </p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "Thank you very much for your active knowledge sharing. All have been very helpful :)",
      "votes": null
    },
    {
      "id": "555532",
      "postDate": "06/19/2019 03:08:18",
      "content": "<p>Congratulation and thanks again for your contribution <a href=\"/daisukelab\">@daisukelab</a>!!  </p>\n\n<p>My long-term dream on AI is exactly the same on machine understanding. I visit Japan almost every year and perhaps we can have a nice coffee talk some day!! :)</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "Congratulation and thanks again for your contribution @daisukelab!!  \n\nMy long-term dream on AI is exactly the same on machine understanding. I visit Japan almost every year and perhaps we can have a nice coffee talk some day!! :)",
      "votes": null
    }
  ],
  "comments": [
    {
      "id": 552411,
      "author_name": "ebouteillon",
      "author_url": "",
      "post_date": "06/13/2019 23:12:52",
      "content": "<p>Thanks <a href=\"/daisukelab\">@daisukelab</a>  👍 (one more time)!</p>",
      "votes": null,
      "replies": []
    },
    {
      "id": 552492,
      "author_name": "sandy1112",
      "author_url": "",
      "post_date": "06/14/2019 03:46:04",
      "content": "<p>Congratulations <a href=\"https://www.kaggle.com/daisukelab\"></a><a href=\"/daisukelab\">@daisukelab</a> and many thanks for sharing your kernels and solutions. Learnt a lot from it.</p>",
      "votes": null,
      "replies": []
    },
    {
      "id": 552497,
      "author_name": "daisukelab",
      "author_url": "",
      "post_date": "06/14/2019 04:00:01",
      "content": "<p>(This is lunch time in Japan, I opened Kaggle to check if there's any update, and surprised when I found this thread...)</p>\n\n<p>Thank you very much for acknowledgement, but I appreciate more that Kaggle keeps its community as an open competitive space.</p>\n\n<p>My long term goal or dream is machine perception/understanding. And I'm current (and still long term) focus is sound scene understanding because my career started with digital music instrument development.\n(Last product I worked for was: <a href=\"https://www.boss.info/global/products/br-1200cd/\">https://www.boss.info/global/products/br-1200cd/</a> about 15 years back, now working for more general electric appliances...)\nThen basically this competition is just best fit with my purpose.</p>\n\n<p>And I believe open strategy is the best for making things move forward, it is natural to share informations in community and encourage something to happen.\nSo I'd like to clarify that my actions come basically from my own motivation, and it's for me to say thank you for having made your solutions improve more, and sharing with community.</p>\n\n<p>I already have learned from discussions/solutions (thank you all), and hoping some more other solutions to be shared in the future :).\nEven if it isn't be on the higher end of LB, any of your new ideas tried in this competition would help somebody else's future inventions.</p>\n\n<p>Lastly, thank you to the organizers again for holding this wonderful competition.</p>\n\n<p>...we are still waiting for 2nd stage results!</p>",
      "votes": null,
      "replies": [
        {
          "id": 553593,
          "author_name": "thiventura",
          "author_url": "",
          "post_date": "06/16/2019 02:07:01",
          "content": "<p>When I talk about Kaggle to machine learning students, it is hard for them to believe how a platform of competition can work in a collaborative way. Now I have your comment to make the explanation much easier. Please, continue with your good work.</p>",
          "votes": null,
          "replies": []
        },
        {
          "id": 555033,
          "author_name": "shinyeyes",
          "author_url": "",
          "post_date": "06/18/2019 10:50:42",
          "content": "<p>Thank you very much for your active knowledge sharing. All have been very helpful :) </p>",
          "votes": null,
          "replies": []
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": 552588,
      "author_name": "sailorwei",
      "author_url": "",
      "post_date": "06/14/2019 06:58:22",
      "content": "<p>Congratulations and you deserve it. Thanks for the discussion and kernels you share. <a href=\"/daisukelab\">@daisukelab</a> </p>",
      "votes": null,
      "replies": []
    },
    {
      "id": 552803,
      "author_name": "ackusingh",
      "author_url": "",
      "post_date": "06/14/2019 14:44:07",
      "content": "<p>Thanks <a href=\"/daisukelab\">@daisukelab</a> :)</p>",
      "votes": null,
      "replies": []
    },
    {
      "id": 553342,
      "author_name": "deepaksinghrawat",
      "author_url": "",
      "post_date": "06/15/2019 14:22:31",
      "content": "<p>Thank you <a href=\"/daisukelab\">@daisukelab</a> . Your generous sharing of kernels and ideas helped us a lot in this competition. I hope to continue learning from you.</p>",
      "votes": null,
      "replies": []
    },
    {
      "id": 554300,
      "author_name": "yuta0001",
      "author_url": "",
      "post_date": "06/17/2019 08:43:31",
      "content": "<p>Thank you <a href=\"/daisukelab\">@daisukelab</a> . Your kernel helped me a lot.</p>",
      "votes": null,
      "replies": []
    },
    {
      "id": 555532,
      "author_name": "ratthachat",
      "author_url": "",
      "post_date": "06/19/2019 03:08:18",
      "content": "<p>Congratulation and thanks again for your contribution <a href=\"/daisukelab\">@daisukelab</a>!!  </p>\n\n<p>My long-term dream on AI is exactly the same on machine understanding. I visit Japan almost every year and perhaps we can have a nice coffee talk some day!! :)</p>",
      "votes": null,
      "replies": []
    }
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    "552407": "Dear all, \n\nwhile we wait for the final results, the organizers would like to give special thanks to @daisukelab , who has probably been the most popular (and most thanked) participant, who has selflessly shared kernels and data and ideas, not only this year but also in last year's competition.\n\nCongratulations @daisukelab , and thanks for your tireless dedication to promote open knowledge and research.\n\n--\nThe organizers\n\n - <a href=\"http://www.eduardofonseca.net/\">Eduardo Fonseca</a>, <a href=\"https://www.upf.edu/web/mtg\">MTG-UPF</a>, Barcelona <a href=\"https://twitter.com/edfonseca_\">https://twitter.com/edfonseca_</a>\n\n - <a href=\"https://ai.google/research/people/author8115\">Manoj Plakal</a>, <a href=\"https://research.google.com/audioset////////about.html\">Google's Sound Understanding</a>, New York\n\n - <a href=\"https://ffont.github.io/\">Frederic Font</a>, <a href=\"https://www.upf.edu/web/mtg\">MTG-UPF</a>, Barcelona\n\n - <a href=\"https://ai.google/research/people/DanEllis\">Dan Ellis</a>, <a href=\"https://research.google.com/audioset////////about.html\">Google's Sound Understanding</a>, New York",
    "552411": "Thanks @daisukelab  👍 (one more time)!",
    "552492": "Congratulations [@daisukelab](https://www.kaggle.com/daisukelab) and many thanks for sharing your kernels and solutions. Learnt a lot from it.",
    "552497": "(This is lunch time in Japan, I opened Kaggle to check if there's any update, and surprised when I found this thread...)\n\nThank you very much for acknowledgement, but I appreciate more that Kaggle keeps its community as an open competitive space.\n\nMy long term goal or dream is machine perception/understanding. And I'm current (and still long term) focus is sound scene understanding because my career started with digital music instrument development.\n(Last product I worked for was: https://www.boss.info/global/products/br-1200cd/ about 15 years back, now working for more general electric appliances...)\nThen basically this competition is just best fit with my purpose.\n\nAnd I believe open strategy is the best for making things move forward, it is natural to share informations in community and encourage something to happen.\nSo I'd like to clarify that my actions come basically from my own motivation, and it's for me to say thank you for having made your solutions improve more, and sharing with community.\n\nI already have learned from discussions/solutions (thank you all), and hoping some more other solutions to be shared in the future :).\nEven if it isn't be on the higher end of LB, any of your new ideas tried in this competition would help somebody else's future inventions.\n\nLastly, thank you to the organizers again for holding this wonderful competition.\n\n...we are still waiting for 2nd stage results!",
    "552588": "Congratulations and you deserve it. Thanks for the discussion and kernels you share. @daisukelab",
    "552803": "Thanks @daisukelab :)",
    "553342": "Thank you @daisukelab . Your generous sharing of kernels and ideas helped us a lot in this competition. I hope to continue learning from you.",
    "553593": "When I talk about Kaggle to machine learning students, it is hard for them to believe how a platform of competition can work in a collaborative way. Now I have your comment to make the explanation much easier. Please, continue with your good work.",
    "554300": "Thank you @daisukelab . Your kernel helped me a lot.",
    "555033": "Thank you very much for your active knowledge sharing. All have been very helpful :)",
    "555532": "Congratulation and thanks again for your contribution @daisukelab!!  \n\nMy long-term dream on AI is exactly the same on machine understanding. I visit Japan almost every year and perhaps we can have a nice coffee talk some day!! :)"
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