{
  "id": 261815,
  "title": "Trust your intuition (and your CV score), not your public score",
  "url": "/competitions/google-smartphone-decimeter-challenge/discussion/261815",
  "author_name": "",
  "post_date": "2021-08-05T05:20:08.519865500Z",
  "votes": 7,
  "comment_count": 1,
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  "content": "<p>Once again, I learned the hard way that you should trust your CV and your intuition, not your public score. In the rush to get a better score in this competition that ended today, I hesitated to select the submission that made sense for me - considering the type of the problem, i.e. one that selects either an average or a median of the best solutions points - over ones that were \"overfitting\" the public leaderboard. Well, not trusting my intuition didn't pay off, so rather than getting into the medal zone, I am now somewhere in the 20% top.</p>\n<p>Don't do like me.</p>",
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    {
      "id": "1450415",
      "postDate": "08/05/2021 05:20:08",
      "content": "<p>Once again, I learned the hard way that you should trust your CV and your intuition, not your public score. In the rush to get a better score in this competition that ended today, I hesitated to select the submission that made sense for me - considering the type of the problem, i.e. one that selects either an average or a median of the best solutions points - over ones that were \"overfitting\" the public leaderboard. Well, not trusting my intuition didn't pay off, so rather than getting into the medal zone, I am now somewhere in the 20% top.</p>\n<p>Don't do like me.</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "Once again, I learned the hard way that you should trust your CV and your intuition, not your public score. In the rush to get a better score in this competition that ended today, I hesitated to select the submission that made sense for me - considering the type of the problem, i.e. one that selects either an average or a median of the best solutions points - over ones that were \"overfitting\" the public leaderboard. Well, not trusting my intuition didn't pay off, so rather than getting into the medal zone, I am now somewhere in the 20% top.\n\nDon't do like me.",
      "votes": null
    },
    {
      "id": "1451799",
      "postDate": "08/05/2021 12:43:55",
      "content": "<p>I'm sorry to hear that. </p>\n<p>Last competition that i joined i also selected the wrong submission due to the things i was reading on the discussions, my gut was telling me to go for one, but the discussions were saying the other approach was better, ended up losing the medal because of that.</p>\n<p>I guess it's unavoidable for this to happen with all of us, its a sign of experience.</p>\n<p>But keep it up, best of luck on the next ones you join 🙏</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "I'm sorry to hear that. \n\nLast competition that i joined i also selected the wrong submission due to the things i was reading on the discussions, my gut was telling me to go for one, but the discussions were saying the other approach was better, ended up losing the medal because of that.\n\nI guess it's unavoidable for this to happen with all of us, its a sign of experience.\n\nBut keep it up, best of luck on the next ones you join 🙏",
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    }
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  "comments": [
    {
      "id": 1451799,
      "author_name": "victorasso",
      "author_url": "",
      "post_date": "08/05/2021 12:43:55",
      "content": "<p>I'm sorry to hear that. </p>\n<p>Last competition that i joined i also selected the wrong submission due to the things i was reading on the discussions, my gut was telling me to go for one, but the discussions were saying the other approach was better, ended up losing the medal because of that.</p>\n<p>I guess it's unavoidable for this to happen with all of us, its a sign of experience.</p>\n<p>But keep it up, best of luck on the next ones you join 🙏</p>",
      "votes": null,
      "replies": []
    }
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    "1450415": "Once again, I learned the hard way that you should trust your CV and your intuition, not your public score. In the rush to get a better score in this competition that ended today, I hesitated to select the submission that made sense for me - considering the type of the problem, i.e. one that selects either an average or a median of the best solutions points - over ones that were \"overfitting\" the public leaderboard. Well, not trusting my intuition didn't pay off, so rather than getting into the medal zone, I am now somewhere in the 20% top.\n\nDon't do like me.",
    "1451799": "I'm sorry to hear that. \n\nLast competition that i joined i also selected the wrong submission due to the things i was reading on the discussions, my gut was telling me to go for one, but the discussions were saying the other approach was better, ended up losing the medal because of that.\n\nI guess it's unavoidable for this to happen with all of us, its a sign of experience.\n\nBut keep it up, best of luck on the next ones you join 🙏"
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