{
  "id": 145366,
  "title": "Can I fork a public notebook and submit its results?",
  "url": "/competitions/jigsaw-multilingual-toxic-comment-classification/discussion/145366",
  "author_name": "",
  "post_date": "2020-04-22T20:19:44.755716400Z",
  "votes": 1,
  "comment_count": 3,
  "views": 0,
  "content": "<p>I want to ask that can I fork a public notebook and change some of its code and then submit the output in this competition. I mean to ask that if I copy a good amount of code from any of the public notebooks will I be penalized in the competition.</p>",
  "messages": [
    {
      "id": "817080",
      "postDate": "04/22/2020 20:19:44",
      "content": "<p>I want to ask that can I fork a public notebook and change some of its code and then submit the output in this competition. I mean to ask that if I copy a good amount of code from any of the public notebooks will I be penalized in the competition.</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "I want to ask that can I fork a public notebook and change some of its code and then submit the output in this competition. I mean to ask that if I copy a good amount of code from any of the public notebooks will I be penalized in the competition.",
      "votes": null
    },
    {
      "id": "817088",
      "postDate": "04/22/2020 20:30:53",
      "content": "<p>it doesn get penalized, people who share give the possibility to learn things and you don't have to start from scratch if you have some idea on how to better their code, be sure to thank them tho ;)</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "it doesn get penalized, people who share give the possibility to learn things and you don't have to start from scratch if you have some idea on how to better their code, be sure to thank them tho ;)",
      "votes": null
    },
    {
      "id": "817091",
      "postDate": "04/22/2020 20:36:52",
      "content": "<p>Thanks, <a href=\"/albeffe\">@albeffe</a> for your reply. I haven't participated in any competitions yet now I am going to try in some with the help from some of the public repositories.</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "Thanks, @albeffe for your reply. I haven't participated in any competitions yet now I am going to try in some with the help from some of the public repositories.",
      "votes": null
    },
    {
      "id": "822151",
      "postDate": "04/26/2020 17:51:29",
      "content": "<p>As I have suffered from this approach multiple times. I will recommend you to build your model from scratch initially, and then see public notebooks</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "As I have suffered from this approach multiple times. I will recommend you to build your model from scratch initially, and then see public notebooks",
      "votes": null
    }
  ],
  "comments": [
    {
      "id": 817088,
      "author_name": "albeffe",
      "author_url": "",
      "post_date": "04/22/2020 20:30:53",
      "content": "<p>it doesn get penalized, people who share give the possibility to learn things and you don't have to start from scratch if you have some idea on how to better their code, be sure to thank them tho ;)</p>",
      "votes": null,
      "replies": [
        {
          "id": 817091,
          "author_name": "amananandrai",
          "author_url": "",
          "post_date": "04/22/2020 20:36:52",
          "content": "<p>Thanks, <a href=\"/albeffe\">@albeffe</a> for your reply. I haven't participated in any competitions yet now I am going to try in some with the help from some of the public repositories.</p>",
          "votes": null,
          "replies": []
        },
        {
          "id": 822151,
          "author_name": "kurianbenoy",
          "author_url": "",
          "post_date": "04/26/2020 17:51:29",
          "content": "<p>As I have suffered from this approach multiple times. I will recommend you to build your model from scratch initially, and then see public notebooks</p>",
          "votes": null,
          "replies": []
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "raw_markdown_by_id": {
    "817080": "I want to ask that can I fork a public notebook and change some of its code and then submit the output in this competition. I mean to ask that if I copy a good amount of code from any of the public notebooks will I be penalized in the competition.",
    "817088": "it doesn get penalized, people who share give the possibility to learn things and you don't have to start from scratch if you have some idea on how to better their code, be sure to thank them tho ;)",
    "817091": "Thanks, @albeffe for your reply. I haven't participated in any competitions yet now I am going to try in some with the help from some of the public repositories.",
    "822151": "As I have suffered from this approach multiple times. I will recommend you to build your model from scratch initially, and then see public notebooks"
  },
  "source": "meta"
}