{
  "id": 190716,
  "title": "Should scores with more decimal places be displayed in the leaderboard?",
  "url": "/competitions/riiid-test-answer-prediction/discussion/190716",
  "author_name": "",
  "post_date": "2020-10-13T05:44:52.420009600Z",
  "votes": null,
  "comment_count": 3,
  "views": 0,
  "content": "<p>As the title</p>",
  "messages": [
    {
      "id": "1047998",
      "postDate": "10/13/2020 05:44:52",
      "content": "<p>As the title</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "As the title",
      "votes": null
    },
    {
      "id": "1048152",
      "postDate": "10/13/2020 08:35:37",
      "content": "<p>Please check before posting duplicate topics - this question was <a href=\"https://www.kaggle.com/c/riiid-test-answer-prediction/discussion/189606\" target=\"_blank\">already asked earlier</a>.</p>\n<p>PS: The downvoters probably don't understand that Kaggle will very likely increase the number of digits before the end of the competition anyway. (Happened in many competitions earlier where too many participants had the same score.)</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "Please check before posting duplicate topics - this question was [already asked earlier](https://www.kaggle.com/c/riiid-test-answer-prediction/discussion/189606).\n\nPS: The downvoters probably don't understand that Kaggle will very likely increase the number of digits before the end of the competition anyway. (Happened in many competitions earlier where too many participants had the same score.)",
      "votes": null
    },
    {
      "id": "1048178",
      "postDate": "10/13/2020 08:54:45",
      "content": "<p>I don't think there is any benefit / value in increasing decimal places on the LB of this competition. It goes against the premise of why the digits were reduced in the first place. Competitors will just end up overfitting to every nth decimal place.</p>\n<p>Building a better model that improves the 3rd decimal place is already sufficient enough.</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "I don't think there is any benefit / value in increasing decimal places on the LB of this competition. It goes against the premise of why the digits were reduced in the first place. Competitors will just end up overfitting to every nth decimal place.\n\nBuilding a better model that improves the 3rd decimal place is already sufficient enough.",
      "votes": null
    },
    {
      "id": "1048186",
      "postDate": "10/13/2020 09:06:46",
      "content": "<p>I agree with you. But whenever I add a feature, the same score does not know how useful this feature is. 😂</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "I agree with you. But whenever I add a feature, the same score does not know how useful this feature is. 😂",
      "votes": null
    }
  ],
  "comments": [
    {
      "id": 1048152,
      "author_name": "sirishks",
      "author_url": "",
      "post_date": "10/13/2020 08:35:37",
      "content": "<p>Please check before posting duplicate topics - this question was <a href=\"https://www.kaggle.com/c/riiid-test-answer-prediction/discussion/189606\" target=\"_blank\">already asked earlier</a>.</p>\n<p>PS: The downvoters probably don't understand that Kaggle will very likely increase the number of digits before the end of the competition anyway. (Happened in many competitions earlier where too many participants had the same score.)</p>",
      "votes": null,
      "replies": []
    },
    {
      "id": 1048178,
      "author_name": "rohanrao",
      "author_url": "",
      "post_date": "10/13/2020 08:54:45",
      "content": "<p>I don't think there is any benefit / value in increasing decimal places on the LB of this competition. It goes against the premise of why the digits were reduced in the first place. Competitors will just end up overfitting to every nth decimal place.</p>\n<p>Building a better model that improves the 3rd decimal place is already sufficient enough.</p>",
      "votes": null,
      "replies": [
        {
          "id": 1048186,
          "author_name": "hengzheng",
          "author_url": "",
          "post_date": "10/13/2020 09:06:46",
          "content": "<p>I agree with you. But whenever I add a feature, the same score does not know how useful this feature is. 😂</p>",
          "votes": null,
          "replies": []
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "raw_markdown_by_id": {
    "1047998": "As the title",
    "1048152": "Please check before posting duplicate topics - this question was [already asked earlier](https://www.kaggle.com/c/riiid-test-answer-prediction/discussion/189606).\n\nPS: The downvoters probably don't understand that Kaggle will very likely increase the number of digits before the end of the competition anyway. (Happened in many competitions earlier where too many participants had the same score.)",
    "1048178": "I don't think there is any benefit / value in increasing decimal places on the LB of this competition. It goes against the premise of why the digits were reduced in the first place. Competitors will just end up overfitting to every nth decimal place.\n\nBuilding a better model that improves the 3rd decimal place is already sufficient enough.",
    "1048186": "I agree with you. But whenever I add a feature, the same score does not know how useful this feature is. 😂"
  },
  "source": "meta"
}