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![\"\"](\"https://i.ibb.co/Zd9M5kW/Screenshot-2022-04-16-at-17-42-29-Happywhale-Whale-and-Dolphin-Identification-Kaggle.png\")
After months of competing, running all exhaustive experiments and fine tuning to reach 0.8 lb.
\n I believe that's top LB holding brilliant solutions to reach that ~0.9 lb, some of them just need less than 80 submission to archive that lb.
\nAnyway, hoping for the best and remember:
\n TRUST YOUR CV dear fellows beginners like me. π
After months of competing, running all exhaustive experiments and fine tuning to reach 0.8 lb.
\n I believe that's top LB holding brilliant solutions to reach that ~0.9 lb, some of them just need less than 80 submission to archive that lb.
\nAnyway, hoping for the best and remember:
\n TRUST YOUR CV dear fellows beginners like me. π
I also can't wait to see how the top guys solve this one!
\nAs mentioned in the disucussion, ensemble and crop were effective for me, but I couldn't do more than that.π
Top LB solution is all we need :)
", "rawMarkdown": "Top LB solution is all we need :)", "votes": null }, { "id": "1757671", "postDate": "04/16/2022 21:46:40", "content": "Yeah, cant wait for these teams solutions
\n
And these 2 teams aren't by far the only which suddenly landed in top 100. Probably some kind of Easter miracle though this time happening in a completely different part of the world.
", "rawMarkdown": "And these 2 teams aren't by far the only which suddenly landed in top 100. Probably some kind of Easter miracle though this time happening in a completely different part of the world.", "votes": null }, { "id": "1757885", "postDate": "04/17/2022 05:35:10", "content": "I hope we are not the only ones who witnessed this miracles, @addisonhoward. Full silver range of miracles, this should really be a standalone discussion topic (once again).
", "rawMarkdown": "I hope we are not the only ones who witnessed this miracles, @addisonhoward. Full silver range of miracles, this should really be a standalone discussion topic (once again).", "votes": null }, { "id": "1758155", "postDate": "04/17/2022 11:28:37", "content": "Of course, calling this serious and still developing issue an \"Easter miracle\" was my pure irony intended to start a debate.
\nI hope that both @wcukierski and @addisonhoward will keep their promises given to me in other discussions to keep competitions as fair as possible.
\nUnfortunately this is only a \"cherry on the top\" of a deeper long term repeatedly discussed problem (as Gleb also reminded) but this time it has been growing to a monster size.
We will see.
\nI spent massive time looking for solution which could give us jump. Not found. And now when I see how easly people (registered on Kaggle even a few days ago) jump over me β¦ looks this competition is very, very easy or I am stupid or β¦ I missed something (I feel like I have read everything πππ). Last 3 days (!!!) we dropped almost 30 positions. It seems that remaining two days we will drop to bronze zone. No problem, no problem for me. I feel that I can't do more in this competition.
\nNow I decided to stop and look for final solution description. Since I implemented and checked most of discussed in Discussion forum tips (most of them do not work or even worse score; I checked almost all public DS (my private DS based on yolov5 was the best one), blending strategies, tiny and hard augumentation, different feature extractor, tricks I know that work in efnet, arcface, cosface, simface, gempooling, different fold strategies etc.) it will be easy to find and check most powerful tricks it this competition β¦. it they will be published. For sure this competition will be great learing to me.
", "rawMarkdown": "We will see. \n\nI spent massive time looking for solution which could give us jump. Not found. And now when I see how easly people (registered on Kaggle even a few days ago) jump over me ... looks this competition is very, very easy or I am stupid or ... I missed something (I feel like I have read everything πππ). Last 3 days (!!!) we dropped almost 30 positions. It seems that remaining two days we will drop to bronze zone. No problem, no problem for me. I feel that I can't do more in this competition.\n\nNow I decided to stop and look for final solution description. Since I implemented and checked most of discussed in Discussion forum tips (most of them do not work or even worse score; I checked almost all public DS (my private DS based on yolov5 was the best one), blending strategies, tiny and hard augumentation, different feature extractor, tricks I know that work in efnet, arcface, cosface, simface, gempooling, different fold strategies etc.) it will be easy to find and check most powerful tricks it this competition .... it they will be published. For sure this competition will be great learing to me.", "votes": null }, { "id": "1758363", "postDate": "04/17/2022 15:46:01", "content": "@remekkinas , Maybe in the last 3 days, people start their \"Ensemble\" :D, I feel the LB changed so fast when the competition near the end
", "rawMarkdown": "remekkinas , Maybe in the last 3 days, people start their \"Ensemble\" :D, I feel the LB changed so fast when the competition near the end", "votes": null }, { "id": "1758365", "postDate": "04/17/2022 15:50:13", "content": "I agree with you. The LB changed so fast in the last 3 days :(
", "rawMarkdown": "I agree with you. The LB changed so fast in the last 3 days :(", "votes": null }, { "id": "1758366", "postDate": "04/17/2022 15:50:58", "content": "Yes, it is possible. As I said β¦ no problem for me - I am learning. Looking for solution gave me a LOT of new discoveries and knowledge. It will be easier in the future competition.
", "rawMarkdown": "Yes, it is possible. As I said ... no problem for me - I am learning. Looking for solution gave me a LOT of new discoveries and knowledge. It will be easier in the future competition.", "votes": null }, { "id": "1758369", "postDate": "04/17/2022 15:52:19", "content": "\n\nI agree with you. The LB changed so fast in the last 3 days :(
\n
Now I can say that β¦ LB is changing every hour :)
", "rawMarkdown": "> I agree with you. The LB changed so fast in the last 3 days :(\n\nNow I can say that ... LB is changing every hour :)", "votes": null }, { "id": "1758372", "postDate": "04/17/2022 15:56:38", "content": "\n\nYes, it is possible. As I said β¦ no problem for me - I am learning. Looking for solution gave me a LOT of new discoveries and knowledge. It will be easier in the future competition.
\n
You are right! We shouldn't focus too much on medals, but on what we've learned from the competition :D
", "rawMarkdown": "> Yes, it is possible. As I said ... no problem for me - I am learning. Looking for solution gave me a LOT of new discoveries and knowledge. It will be easier in the future competition.\n\nYou are right! We shouldn't focus too much on medals, but on what we've learned from the competition :D", "votes": null }, { "id": "1758387", "postDate": "04/17/2022 16:18:17", "content": "Another genius team Wesley appeared. 5 novicesοΌFew submissions, appeared in gold zone from nowhere.
", "rawMarkdown": "Another genius team Wesley appeared. 5 novicesοΌFew submissions, appeared in gold zone from nowhere.", "votes": null }, { "id": "1758412", "postDate": "04/17/2022 16:45:57", "content": "I do not judge anybody. They are better then I am :) This is fact - they easily jump me last day. Happens :) Learning in progress β¦
", "rawMarkdown": "I do not judge anybody. They are better then I am :) This is fact - they easily jump me last day. Happens :) Learning in progress β¦", "votes": null }, { "id": "1758490", "postDate": "04/17/2022 18:00:17", "content": "@forcewithme this is wild , three genius teams in gold range, probably hopping from 1500 position straight to the top in the last day. what a miracle. Completely independent from this, i assume:
\n![\"\"](\"https://i.ibb.co/YhbjM15/Screenshot-2022-04-17-at-13-56-35-Happywhale-Whale-and-Dolphin-Identification-Kaggle.png\")
\nThis one is probably just ashamed of his genius, decided to delete himself from kaggle
This is quite interesting.
\nHere we can see TONS if whale datasets https://www.kaggle.com/yujiariyasu/datasets
\nLooks like it appears quite recently.
\nMaybe this is the part of the miracle?
I'm also looking forward to see the top solutions! I think it will be interesting to see how people solve this problem. I haven't tried ensemble or crop yet, but I will definitely try them out.
", "rawMarkdown": "I'm also looking forward to see the top solutions! I think it will be interesting to see how people solve this problem. I haven't tried ensemble or crop yet, but I will definitely try them out.", "votes": null }, { "id": "1758685", "postDate": "04/18/2022 00:30:58", "content": "Besides of that, top 1 now just join the game 2 weeks ago, what a GM :D
", "rawMarkdown": "Besides of that, top 1 now just join the game 2 weeks ago, what a GM :D", "votes": null }, { "id": "1758692", "postDate": "04/18/2022 01:01:02", "content": "@bakeryproducts Yeah I also see some interesting teams in silver as well. It doesn't even look like they are trying to hide it. The best explanation my team discussed was maybe alt accounts for tpu time on kaggle?
", "rawMarkdown": "bakeryproducts Yeah I also see some interesting teams in silver as well. It doesn't even look like they are trying to hide it. The best explanation my team discussed was maybe alt accounts for tpu time on kaggle?", "votes": null }, { "id": "1758911", "postDate": "04/18/2022 06:29:25", "content": "Now I take a look in the LB of some > top 30 and I saw some teams have a common thing: Kaggle Novice/Contributor, joined a few months ago, from China π
", "rawMarkdown": "Now I take a look in the LB of some > top 30 and I saw some teams have a common thing: Kaggle Novice/Contributor, joined a few months ago, from China π", "votes": null }, { "id": "1759021", "postDate": "04/18/2022 09:00:46", "content": "Look similar to 2 teams above
\n![\"\"](\"https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/36766404/163784528-c1b1c62e-cb2f-4242-8c9c-74e200a34109.png\")
just notice that situation. I believe many teams will be removed in next few days.
", "rawMarkdown": "just notice that situation. I believe many teams will be removed in next few days.", "votes": null }, { "id": "1759069", "postDate": "04/18/2022 10:08:59", "content": "I always have one answer to this situation - come up with a solution so that you don't have such problem :) I suppose TOP#10 solutions are really good β¦ so there is no problem with changes below them ππ
", "rawMarkdown": "I always have one answer to this situation - come up with a solution so that you don't have such problem :) I suppose TOP#10 solutions are really good β¦ so there is no problem with changes below them ππ", "votes": null }, { "id": "1759102", "postDate": "04/18/2022 10:42:59", "content": "agree.
\nthis is my first image competition in kaggle and didn't expect to be so far behind the top teams in score.
\nI look forward to seeing the top teams' solutions.
I also can't wait to see how the top guys solve this one!
\nAs mentioned in the disucussion, ensemble and crop were effective for me, but I couldn't do more than that.π
Top LB solution is all we need :)
", "votes": null, "replies": [] }, { "id": 1757671, "author_name": "bakeryproducts", "author_url": "", "post_date": "04/16/2022 21:46:40", "content": "Yeah, cant wait for these teams solutions
\n
And these 2 teams aren't by far the only which suddenly landed in top 100. Probably some kind of Easter miracle though this time happening in a completely different part of the world.
", "votes": null, "replies": [] }, { "id": 1757885, "author_name": "bakeryproducts", "author_url": "", "post_date": "04/17/2022 05:35:10", "content": "I hope we are not the only ones who witnessed this miracles, @addisonhoward. Full silver range of miracles, this should really be a standalone discussion topic (once again).
", "votes": null, "replies": [] }, { "id": 1758155, "author_name": "blankaf", "author_url": "", "post_date": "04/17/2022 11:28:37", "content": "Of course, calling this serious and still developing issue an \"Easter miracle\" was my pure irony intended to start a debate.
\nI hope that both @wcukierski and @addisonhoward will keep their promises given to me in other discussions to keep competitions as fair as possible.
\nUnfortunately this is only a \"cherry on the top\" of a deeper long term repeatedly discussed problem (as Gleb also reminded) but this time it has been growing to a monster size.
We will see.
\nI spent massive time looking for solution which could give us jump. Not found. And now when I see how easly people (registered on Kaggle even a few days ago) jump over me β¦ looks this competition is very, very easy or I am stupid or β¦ I missed something (I feel like I have read everything πππ). Last 3 days (!!!) we dropped almost 30 positions. It seems that remaining two days we will drop to bronze zone. No problem, no problem for me. I feel that I can't do more in this competition.
\nNow I decided to stop and look for final solution description. Since I implemented and checked most of discussed in Discussion forum tips (most of them do not work or even worse score; I checked almost all public DS (my private DS based on yolov5 was the best one), blending strategies, tiny and hard augumentation, different feature extractor, tricks I know that work in efnet, arcface, cosface, simface, gempooling, different fold strategies etc.) it will be easy to find and check most powerful tricks it this competition β¦. it they will be published. For sure this competition will be great learing to me.
", "votes": null, "replies": [] }, { "id": 1758363, "author_name": "ptran1203", "author_url": "", "post_date": "04/17/2022 15:46:01", "content": "@remekkinas , Maybe in the last 3 days, people start their \"Ensemble\" :D, I feel the LB changed so fast when the competition near the end
", "votes": null, "replies": [] }, { "id": 1758365, "author_name": "yangranran", "author_url": "", "post_date": "04/17/2022 15:50:13", "content": "I agree with you. The LB changed so fast in the last 3 days :(
", "votes": null, "replies": [] }, { "id": 1758366, "author_name": "remekkinas", "author_url": "", "post_date": "04/17/2022 15:50:58", "content": "Yes, it is possible. As I said β¦ no problem for me - I am learning. Looking for solution gave me a LOT of new discoveries and knowledge. It will be easier in the future competition.
", "votes": null, "replies": [ { "id": 1758372, "author_name": "yangranran", "author_url": "", "post_date": "04/17/2022 15:56:38", "content": "\n\nYes, it is possible. As I said β¦ no problem for me - I am learning. Looking for solution gave me a LOT of new discoveries and knowledge. It will be easier in the future competition.
\n
You are right! We shouldn't focus too much on medals, but on what we've learned from the competition :D
", "votes": null, "replies": [] } ] }, { "id": 1758369, "author_name": "remekkinas", "author_url": "", "post_date": "04/17/2022 15:52:19", "content": "\n\nI agree with you. The LB changed so fast in the last 3 days :(
\n
Now I can say that β¦ LB is changing every hour :)
", "votes": null, "replies": [] }, { "id": 1758387, "author_name": "forcewithme", "author_url": "", "post_date": "04/17/2022 16:18:17", "content": "Another genius team Wesley appeared. 5 novicesοΌFew submissions, appeared in gold zone from nowhere.
", "votes": null, "replies": [] }, { "id": 1758412, "author_name": "remekkinas", "author_url": "", "post_date": "04/17/2022 16:45:57", "content": "I do not judge anybody. They are better then I am :) This is fact - they easily jump me last day. Happens :) Learning in progress β¦
", "votes": null, "replies": [] }, { "id": 1758490, "author_name": "bakeryproducts", "author_url": "", "post_date": "04/17/2022 18:00:17", "content": "@forcewithme this is wild , three genius teams in gold range, probably hopping from 1500 position straight to the top in the last day. what a miracle. Completely independent from this, i assume:
\n
\nThis one is probably just ashamed of his genius, decided to delete himself from kaggle
This is quite interesting.
\nHere we can see TONS if whale datasets https://www.kaggle.com/yujiariyasu/datasets
\nLooks like it appears quite recently.
\nMaybe this is the part of the miracle?
Besides of that, top 1 now just join the game 2 weeks ago, what a GM :D
", "votes": null, "replies": [] }, { "id": 1758692, "author_name": "vexxingbanana", "author_url": "", "post_date": "04/18/2022 01:01:02", "content": "@bakeryproducts Yeah I also see some interesting teams in silver as well. It doesn't even look like they are trying to hide it. The best explanation my team discussed was maybe alt accounts for tpu time on kaggle?
", "votes": null, "replies": [] }, { "id": 1759021, "author_name": "ptran1203", "author_url": "", "post_date": "04/18/2022 09:00:46", "content": "Look similar to 2 teams above
\n
just notice that situation. I believe many teams will be removed in next few days.
", "votes": null, "replies": [] }, { "id": 1759069, "author_name": "remekkinas", "author_url": "", "post_date": "04/18/2022 10:08:59", "content": "I always have one answer to this situation - come up with a solution so that you don't have such problem :) I suppose TOP#10 solutions are really good β¦ so there is no problem with changes below them ππ
", "votes": null, "replies": [] }, { "id": 1759102, "author_name": "ksork6s4", "author_url": "", "post_date": "04/18/2022 10:42:59", "content": "agree.
\nthis is my first image competition in kaggle and didn't expect to be so far behind the top teams in score.
\nI look forward to seeing the top teams' solutions.
I'm also looking forward to see the top solutions! I think it will be interesting to see how people solve this problem. I haven't tried ensemble or crop yet, but I will definitely try them out.
", "votes": null, "replies": [] }, { "id": 1758911, "author_name": "ptran1203", "author_url": "", "post_date": "04/18/2022 06:29:25", "content": "Now I take a look in the LB of some > top 30 and I saw some teams have a common thing: Kaggle Novice/Contributor, joined a few months ago, from China π
", "votes": null, "replies": [] } ], "raw_markdown_by_id": { "1757165": "After months of competing, running all exhaustive experiments and fine tuning to reach 0.8 lb.\n I believe that's top LB holding brilliant solutions to reach that ~0.9 lb, some of them just need less than 80 submission to archive that lb. \nAnyway, hoping for the best and remember:\n **TRUST YOUR CV** dear fellows beginners like me. π", "1757351": "I also can't wait to see how the top guys solve this one!\nAs mentioned in the disucussion, ensemble and crop were effective for me, but I couldn't do more than that.π", "1757377": "Top LB solution is all we need :)", "1757671": "Yeah, cant wait for these teams solutions\n", "1757705": "And these 2 teams aren't by far the only which suddenly landed in top 100. Probably some kind of Easter miracle though this time happening in a completely different part of the world.", "1757885": "I hope we are not the only ones who witnessed this miracles, @addisonhoward. Full silver range of miracles, this should really be a standalone discussion topic (once again).", "1758155": "Of course, calling this **serious and still developing issue** an \"Easter miracle\" was my pure irony intended to start a debate.\nI hope that both @wcukierski and @addisonhoward will keep their promises given to me in other discussions to keep competitions as fair as possible. \nUnfortunately this is only a \"cherry on the top\" of a deeper long term repeatedly discussed problem (as Gleb also reminded) but this time it has been growing to a monster size.", "1758240": "We will see. \n\nI spent massive time looking for solution which could give us jump. Not found. And now when I see how easly people (registered on Kaggle even a few days ago) jump over me ... looks this competition is very, very easy or I am stupid or ... I missed something (I feel like I have read everything πππ). Last 3 days (!!!) we dropped almost 30 positions. It seems that remaining two days we will drop to bronze zone. No problem, no problem for me. I feel that I can't do more in this competition.\n\nNow I decided to stop and look for final solution description. Since I implemented and checked most of discussed in Discussion forum tips (most of them do not work or even worse score; I checked almost all public DS (my private DS based on yolov5 was the best one), blending strategies, tiny and hard augumentation, different feature extractor, tricks I know that work in efnet, arcface, cosface, simface, gempooling, different fold strategies etc.) it will be easy to find and check most powerful tricks it this competition .... it they will be published. For sure this competition will be great learing to me.", "1758363": "remekkinas , Maybe in the last 3 days, people start their \"Ensemble\" :D, I feel the LB changed so fast when the competition near the end", "1758365": "I agree with you. The LB changed so fast in the last 3 days :(", "1758366": "Yes, it is possible. As I said ... no problem for me - I am learning. Looking for solution gave me a LOT of new discoveries and knowledge. It will be easier in the future competition.", "1758369": "> I agree with you. The LB changed so fast in the last 3 days :(\n\nNow I can say that ... LB is changing every hour :)", "1758372": "> Yes, it is possible. As I said ... no problem for me - I am learning. Looking for solution gave me a LOT of new discoveries and knowledge. It will be easier in the future competition.\n\nYou are right! We shouldn't focus too much on medals, but on what we've learned from the competition :D", "1758387": "Another genius team Wesley appeared. 5 novicesοΌFew submissions, appeared in gold zone from nowhere.", "1758412": "I do not judge anybody. They are better then I am :) This is fact - they easily jump me last day. Happens :) Learning in progress β¦", "1758490": "forcewithme this is wild , three genius teams in gold range, probably hopping from 1500 position straight to the top in the last day. what a miracle. Completely independent from this, i assume:\n\nThis one is probably just ashamed of his genius, decided to delete himself from kaggle", "1758537": "This is quite interesting.\nHere we can see TONS if whale datasets https://www.kaggle.com/yujiariyasu/datasets\nLooks like it appears quite recently.\nMaybe this is the part of the miracle?", "1758618": "I'm also looking forward to see the top solutions! I think it will be interesting to see how people solve this problem. I haven't tried ensemble or crop yet, but I will definitely try them out.", "1758685": "Besides of that, top 1 now just join the game 2 weeks ago, what a GM :D", "1758692": "bakeryproducts Yeah I also see some interesting teams in silver as well. It doesn't even look like they are trying to hide it. The best explanation my team discussed was maybe alt accounts for tpu time on kaggle?", "1758911": "Now I take a look in the LB of some > top 30 and I saw some teams have a common thing: Kaggle Novice/Contributor, joined a few months ago, from China π", "1759021": "Look similar to 2 teams above\n\n", "1759036": "just notice that situation. I believe many teams will be removed in next few days.", "1759069": "I always have one answer to this situation - come up with a solution so that you don't have such problem :) I suppose TOP#10 solutions are really good β¦ so there is no problem with changes below them ππ", "1759102": "agree.\nthis is my first image competition in kaggle and didn't expect to be so far behind the top teams in score.\nI look forward to seeing the top teams' solutions." }, "source": "meta" }