{
  "id": 308534,
  "title": "Why this competition when the predictions expected are already given ??",
  "url": "/competitions/happy-whale-and-dolphin/discussion/308534",
  "author_name": "",
  "post_date": "2022-02-19T05:26:47.024400800Z",
  "votes": 3,
  "comment_count": 5,
  "views": 0,
  "content": "<p>When the read about the test it says -- \"a folder containing the test images; for each image, your task is to predict the individual_id; no species information is given for the test data; there are individuals in the test data that are not observed in the training data, which should be predicted as new_individual.\" when it is already given to predict new individual - then why so many other individual ids are present along with that in the cell ? Can someone please provide a brief description of what to predict and what to do ?</p>",
  "messages": [
    {
      "id": "1696786",
      "postDate": "02/19/2022 05:26:47",
      "content": "<p>When the read about the test it says -- \"a folder containing the test images; for each image, your task is to predict the individual_id; no species information is given for the test data; there are individuals in the test data that are not observed in the training data, which should be predicted as new_individual.\" when it is already given to predict new individual - then why so many other individual ids are present along with that in the cell ? Can someone please provide a brief description of what to predict and what to do ?</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "When the read about the test it says -- \"a folder containing the test images; for each image, your task is to predict the individual_id; no species information is given for the test data; there are individuals in the test data that are not observed in the training data, which should be predicted as new_individual.\" when it is already given to predict new individual - then why so many other individual ids are present along with that in the cell ? Can someone please provide a brief description of what to predict and what to do ?",
      "votes": null
    },
    {
      "id": "1696792",
      "postDate": "02/19/2022 05:33:51",
      "content": "<p>Do we have to predict similar whales in that species?</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "Do we have to predict similar whales in that species?",
      "votes": null
    },
    {
      "id": "1696802",
      "postDate": "02/19/2022 05:49:22",
      "content": "<p>test image maybe in or not train data set. if in, predict label, otherwise, new_individual.</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "test image maybe in or not train data set. if in, predict label, otherwise, new_individual.",
      "votes": null
    },
    {
      "id": "1696848",
      "postDate": "02/19/2022 06:27:47",
      "content": "<p>Or do we have to predict the species ?</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "Or do we have to predict the species ?",
      "votes": null
    },
    {
      "id": "1697306",
      "postDate": "02/19/2022 14:23:16",
      "content": "<p>In this competition, you are supposed to predict the individual. It would be very hard to submit a hard prediction (i. e. only one individual), so we have up to five attempts.<br>\nYou gain +1 score if your first prediction is correct. 0.5 - if second and so on. Only 0.2 scores you may gain if you give the right answer on the 5th rank.</p>\n<p>If you give the correct prediction from the first attempt (1 rank) other predictions will not be considered at all. So, if the given image contains a new individual, you may submit</p>\n<p>new_individual, A, B, C, D<br>\nnew_individual, A, A, A, A<br>\nnew_individual, X, Y, Z , U</p>\n<p>All  of them will bring you +1</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "In this competition, you are supposed to predict the individual. It would be very hard to submit a hard prediction (i. e. only one individual), so we have up to five attempts.\nYou gain +1 score if your first prediction is correct. 0.5 - if second and so on. Only 0.2 scores you may gain if you give the right answer on the 5th rank.\n\nIf you give the correct prediction from the first attempt (1 rank) other predictions will not be considered at all. So, if the given image contains a new individual, you may submit\n\nnew_individual, A, B, C, D\nnew_individual, A, A, A, A\nnew_individual, X, Y, Z , U\n\nAll  of them will bring you +1",
      "votes": null
    },
    {
      "id": "1718713",
      "postDate": "03/11/2022 05:17:58",
      "content": "<p>You have to predict the EXACT individual the image is of. OR say it's a 'new individual', as in, it has never been seen before, then add it to the potential set of candidates.</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "You have to predict the EXACT individual the image is of. OR say it's a 'new individual', as in, it has never been seen before, then add it to the potential set of candidates.",
      "votes": null
    }
  ],
  "comments": [
    {
      "id": 1696792,
      "author_name": "saumilagrawal10",
      "author_url": "",
      "post_date": "02/19/2022 05:33:51",
      "content": "<p>Do we have to predict similar whales in that species?</p>",
      "votes": null,
      "replies": [
        {
          "id": 1696848,
          "author_name": "saumilagrawal10",
          "author_url": "",
          "post_date": "02/19/2022 06:27:47",
          "content": "<p>Or do we have to predict the species ?</p>",
          "votes": null,
          "replies": []
        },
        {
          "id": 1718713,
          "author_name": "dentistdad",
          "author_url": "",
          "post_date": "03/11/2022 05:17:58",
          "content": "<p>You have to predict the EXACT individual the image is of. OR say it's a 'new individual', as in, it has never been seen before, then add it to the potential set of candidates.</p>",
          "votes": null,
          "replies": []
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": 1696802,
      "author_name": "dragonzhang",
      "author_url": "",
      "post_date": "02/19/2022 05:49:22",
      "content": "<p>test image maybe in or not train data set. if in, predict label, otherwise, new_individual.</p>",
      "votes": null,
      "replies": []
    },
    {
      "id": 1697306,
      "author_name": "meowmeowmeowmeowmeow",
      "author_url": "",
      "post_date": "02/19/2022 14:23:16",
      "content": "<p>In this competition, you are supposed to predict the individual. It would be very hard to submit a hard prediction (i. e. only one individual), so we have up to five attempts.<br>\nYou gain +1 score if your first prediction is correct. 0.5 - if second and so on. Only 0.2 scores you may gain if you give the right answer on the 5th rank.</p>\n<p>If you give the correct prediction from the first attempt (1 rank) other predictions will not be considered at all. So, if the given image contains a new individual, you may submit</p>\n<p>new_individual, A, B, C, D<br>\nnew_individual, A, A, A, A<br>\nnew_individual, X, Y, Z , U</p>\n<p>All  of them will bring you +1</p>",
      "votes": null,
      "replies": []
    }
  ],
  "raw_markdown_by_id": {
    "1696786": "When the read about the test it says -- \"a folder containing the test images; for each image, your task is to predict the individual_id; no species information is given for the test data; there are individuals in the test data that are not observed in the training data, which should be predicted as new_individual.\" when it is already given to predict new individual - then why so many other individual ids are present along with that in the cell ? Can someone please provide a brief description of what to predict and what to do ?",
    "1696792": "Do we have to predict similar whales in that species?",
    "1696802": "test image maybe in or not train data set. if in, predict label, otherwise, new_individual.",
    "1696848": "Or do we have to predict the species ?",
    "1697306": "In this competition, you are supposed to predict the individual. It would be very hard to submit a hard prediction (i. e. only one individual), so we have up to five attempts.\nYou gain +1 score if your first prediction is correct. 0.5 - if second and so on. Only 0.2 scores you may gain if you give the right answer on the 5th rank.\n\nIf you give the correct prediction from the first attempt (1 rank) other predictions will not be considered at all. So, if the given image contains a new individual, you may submit\n\nnew_individual, A, B, C, D\nnew_individual, A, A, A, A\nnew_individual, X, Y, Z , U\n\nAll  of them will bring you +1",
    "1718713": "You have to predict the EXACT individual the image is of. OR say it's a 'new individual', as in, it has never been seen before, then add it to the potential set of candidates."
  },
  "source": "meta"
}