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  "id": 237729,
  "title": "A bit confused about the comp rules",
  "url": "/competitions/hotel-id-2021-fgvc8/discussion/237729",
  "author_name": "LoveLetter",
  "post_date": "2021-05-10T03:44:00.471000",
  "votes": 2,
  "comment_count": 0,
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  "content": "<p><a href=\"https://www.kaggle.com/maggiemd\" target=\"_blank\">@maggiemd</a> I'm a bit confused about the comp rules.</p>\n<p>A3 says:</p>\n<p>The general rule is that participants should only use the provided training images for training models to classify the test images. We do not want participants crawling the web in search of additional data.</p>\n<p>But B7C contains the general external data clause.</p>\n<p>So, are we allowed to use data such as Hotels50k dataset <a href=\"https://github.com/GWUvision/Hotels-50K\" target=\"_blank\">https://github.com/GWUvision/Hotels-50K</a>?</p>",
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      "postDate": "2021-05-10T03:44:00.470Z",
      "content": "<p><a href=\"https://www.kaggle.com/maggiemd\" target=\"_blank\">@maggiemd</a> I'm a bit confused about the comp rules.</p>\n<p>A3 says:</p>\n<p>The general rule is that participants should only use the provided training images for training models to classify the test images. We do not want participants crawling the web in search of additional data.</p>\n<p>But B7C contains the general external data clause.</p>\n<p>So, are we allowed to use data such as Hotels50k dataset <a href=\"https://github.com/GWUvision/Hotels-50K\" target=\"_blank\">https://github.com/GWUvision/Hotels-50K</a>?</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "@maggiemd I'm a bit confused about the comp rules.\n\nA3 says:\n\nThe general rule is that participants should only use the provided training images for training models to classify the test images. We do not want participants crawling the web in search of additional data.\n\nBut B7C contains the general external data clause.\n\nSo, are we allowed to use data such as Hotels50k dataset https://github.com/GWUvision/Hotels-50K?",
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    "1299790": "@maggiemd I'm a bit confused about the comp rules.\n\nA3 says:\n\nThe general rule is that participants should only use the provided training images for training models to classify the test images. We do not want participants crawling the web in search of additional data.\n\nBut B7C contains the general external data clause.\n\nSo, are we allowed to use data such as Hotels50k dataset https://github.com/GWUvision/Hotels-50K?"
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