{
  "id": 364228,
  "title": "Working as Vanga: which model would win this competition?",
  "url": "/competitions/otto-recommender-system/discussion/364228",
  "author_name": "",
  "post_date": "2022-11-05T10:02:48.790474100Z",
  "votes": 8,
  "comment_count": 1,
  "views": 0,
  "content": "<p>Let me become a <a href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baba_Vanga\" target=\"_blank\">Vanga</a> for a second (or <a href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nostradamus\" target=\"_blank\">Nostradamus</a> if you like) and predict that <strong>gradient boosting</strong> would win this competition.</p>\n<p>In fact I would be really surprised if something non-boosting would be in gold zone.</p>\n<p>This is just how RecSys works nowdays.</p>",
  "messages": [
    {
      "id": "2018017",
      "postDate": "11/05/2022 10:02:48",
      "content": "<p>Let me become a <a href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baba_Vanga\" target=\"_blank\">Vanga</a> for a second (or <a href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nostradamus\" target=\"_blank\">Nostradamus</a> if you like) and predict that <strong>gradient boosting</strong> would win this competition.</p>\n<p>In fact I would be really surprised if something non-boosting would be in gold zone.</p>\n<p>This is just how RecSys works nowdays.</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "Let me become a [Vanga](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baba_Vanga) for a second (or [Nostradamus](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nostradamus) if you like) and predict that **gradient boosting** would win this competition.\n\nIn fact I would be really surprised if something non-boosting would be in gold zone.\n\nThis is just how RecSys works nowdays.",
      "votes": null
    },
    {
      "id": "2020353",
      "postDate": "11/07/2022 11:43:47",
      "content": "<p>isn't it the whole point of boosting algorithm to be powerful than underline base algorithm. Hence XGBoost is not getting applied in most of the problems.</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "isn't it the whole point of boosting algorithm to be powerful than underline base algorithm. Hence XGBoost is not getting applied in most of the problems.",
      "votes": null
    }
  ],
  "comments": [
    {
      "id": 2020353,
      "author_name": "aniketarpathak",
      "author_url": "",
      "post_date": "11/07/2022 11:43:47",
      "content": "<p>isn't it the whole point of boosting algorithm to be powerful than underline base algorithm. Hence XGBoost is not getting applied in most of the problems.</p>",
      "votes": null,
      "replies": []
    }
  ],
  "raw_markdown_by_id": {
    "2018017": "Let me become a [Vanga](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baba_Vanga) for a second (or [Nostradamus](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nostradamus) if you like) and predict that **gradient boosting** would win this competition.\n\nIn fact I would be really surprised if something non-boosting would be in gold zone.\n\nThis is just how RecSys works nowdays.",
    "2020353": "isn't it the whole point of boosting algorithm to be powerful than underline base algorithm. Hence XGBoost is not getting applied in most of the problems."
  },
  "source": "meta"
}