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  "id": 5409,
  "title": "questions about Test data",
  "url": "/competitions/multi-modal-gesture-recognition/discussion/5409",
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  "post_date": "2013-08-15T17:08:27.710Z",
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  "content": "<p>Can one of the admins confirm some statements that have appeared in other forum topics, namely that:</p>\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\n<p>1) the Test data will contain people from the Training and Validation data,</p>\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\n<p>2) the Test data will contain noisy, unrecognized gestures, as in the Validation data, and</p>\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\n<p>3) there will be between 9 and 12 gestures to label in each file of the Test data?</p>\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\n<p>Thanks.</p>\n<p>&nbsp;</p>",
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      "id": "28745",
      "postDate": "08/15/2013 17:08:27",
      "content": "<p>Can one of the admins confirm some statements that have appeared in other forum topics, namely that:</p>\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\n<p>1) the Test data will contain people from the Training and Validation data,</p>\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\n<p>2) the Test data will contain noisy, unrecognized gestures, as in the Validation data, and</p>\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\n<p>3) there will be between 9 and 12 gestures to label in each file of the Test data?</p>\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\n<p>Thanks.</p>\n<p>&nbsp;</p>",
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      "postDate": "08/15/2013 20:51:48",
      "content": "<p>As we posted in the other topics, all 3 points are correct.</p>\n<p>Xavier</p>",
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      "id": "28774",
      "postDate": "08/15/2013 23:45:50",
      "content": "<p>Hi Xavier,</p>\n<p>After code submission (by deadline 15 Aug), will you release the key to the test data earlier (than the scheduled release date of 20 Aug) ?</p>\n<p>It may be better to release earlier, since it does not make any difference to the final prediction score, since the code has been submitted. This should especially be helpful for teams whose technical approaches involve CPU-intensive feature extraction modules.</p>\n<p>telepoints</p>\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\n<p>&nbsp;</p>",
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      "id": "28780",
      "postDate": "08/16/2013 01:15:39",
      "content": "<p>Kaggle administrators ask us to follow the timeline defined in the rules. We will try to publish it before, but I cannot ensure that. What is sure is it will be published on 19th night.</p>\n<p>Xavier</p>",
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      "author_name": "xbaro100272",
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      "post_date": "08/15/2013 20:51:48",
      "content": "<p>As we posted in the other topics, all 3 points are correct.</p>\n<p>Xavier</p>",
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      "id": 28774,
      "author_name": "kongwah",
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      "post_date": "08/15/2013 23:45:50",
      "content": "<p>Hi Xavier,</p>\n<p>After code submission (by deadline 15 Aug), will you release the key to the test data earlier (than the scheduled release date of 20 Aug) ?</p>\n<p>It may be better to release earlier, since it does not make any difference to the final prediction score, since the code has been submitted. This should especially be helpful for teams whose technical approaches involve CPU-intensive feature extraction modules.</p>\n<p>telepoints</p>\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\n<p>&nbsp;</p>",
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      "id": 28780,
      "author_name": "xbaro100272",
      "author_url": "",
      "post_date": "08/16/2013 01:15:39",
      "content": "<p>Kaggle administrators ask us to follow the timeline defined in the rules. We will try to publish it before, but I cannot ensure that. What is sure is it will be published on 19th night.</p>\n<p>Xavier</p>",
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