{
  "id": 206941,
  "title": "Why offline?",
  "url": "/competitions/hubmap-kidney-segmentation/discussion/206941",
  "author_name": "",
  "post_date": "2020-12-27T10:20:36.968876300Z",
  "votes": 4,
  "comment_count": 3,
  "views": 0,
  "content": "<p>Don't want to be cynical or anything, but is there some good reason why the final submission notebook must have online turned-off? Everyone will probably pip-install at least one package, so it's an inconvenience, but I can't think of a good reason behind this requirement…</p>",
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    {
      "id": "1128314",
      "postDate": "12/27/2020 10:20:36",
      "content": "<p>Don't want to be cynical or anything, but is there some good reason why the final submission notebook must have online turned-off? Everyone will probably pip-install at least one package, so it's an inconvenience, but I can't think of a good reason behind this requirement…</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "Don't want to be cynical or anything, but is there some good reason why the final submission notebook must have online turned-off? Everyone will probably pip-install at least one package, so it's an inconvenience, but I can't think of a good reason behind this requirement...",
      "votes": null
    },
    {
      "id": "1129032",
      "postDate": "12/28/2020 02:43:10",
      "content": "<p>Prevent anyone using the Internet to probe private dataset.</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "Prevent anyone using the Internet to probe private dataset.",
      "votes": null
    },
    {
      "id": "1142535",
      "postDate": "01/07/2021 12:58:36",
      "content": "<p>It's to prevent connecting to a remote compute resource, e.g. more GPUs</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "It's to prevent connecting to a remote compute resource, e.g. more GPUs",
      "votes": null
    },
    {
      "id": "1143335",
      "postDate": "01/07/2021 21:07:41",
      "content": "<p>Well if you had internet connection during submission then you can have a section of your code read the private test dataset and write it to a remote server then downlaod these later. </p>\n<p>Once you do this, you can use the private images to gain an advantage thus internet is disabled.</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "Well if you had internet connection during submission then you can have a section of your code read the private test dataset and write it to a remote server then downlaod these later. \n\nOnce you do this, you can use the private images to gain an advantage thus internet is disabled.",
      "votes": null
    }
  ],
  "comments": [
    {
      "id": 1129032,
      "author_name": "li325040229",
      "author_url": "",
      "post_date": "12/28/2020 02:43:10",
      "content": "<p>Prevent anyone using the Internet to probe private dataset.</p>",
      "votes": null,
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    },
    {
      "id": 1142535,
      "author_name": "anjum48",
      "author_url": "",
      "post_date": "01/07/2021 12:58:36",
      "content": "<p>It's to prevent connecting to a remote compute resource, e.g. more GPUs</p>",
      "votes": null,
      "replies": []
    },
    {
      "id": 1143335,
      "author_name": "yassinealouini",
      "author_url": "",
      "post_date": "01/07/2021 21:07:41",
      "content": "<p>Well if you had internet connection during submission then you can have a section of your code read the private test dataset and write it to a remote server then downlaod these later. </p>\n<p>Once you do this, you can use the private images to gain an advantage thus internet is disabled.</p>",
      "votes": null,
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    "1128314": "Don't want to be cynical or anything, but is there some good reason why the final submission notebook must have online turned-off? Everyone will probably pip-install at least one package, so it's an inconvenience, but I can't think of a good reason behind this requirement...",
    "1129032": "Prevent anyone using the Internet to probe private dataset.",
    "1142535": "It's to prevent connecting to a remote compute resource, e.g. more GPUs",
    "1143335": "Well if you had internet connection during submission then you can have a section of your code read the private test dataset and write it to a remote server then downlaod these later. \n\nOnce you do this, you can use the private images to gain an advantage thus internet is disabled."
  },
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}