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  "id": 175338,
  "title": "A tribute to Sir Chris Deotte",
  "url": "/competitions/siim-isic-melanoma-classification/discussion/175338",
  "author_name": "gao-hongnan",
  "post_date": "2020-08-18T00:56:35.211000",
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  "content": "<p>I believe many of us have benefited from <a href=\"https://www.kaggle.com/cdeotte\" target=\"_blank\">@cdeotte</a>'s Triple Stratified Leak Free TFrecords. Here, me and my team sincerely thank him for his contribution - without his selfless contribution, I would still be struggling to create proper TFrecords by myself.</p>\n<p>Note: There are many other selfless people like <a href=\"https://www.kaggle.com/datafan07\" target=\"_blank\">@datafan07</a> who contributed in one way or another, and you guys deserve our due respect.</p>\n<p><strong>UPDATE:  I didn't expect this post to gain such attention - and to clarify, my intention was never to hinge on the popularity of Chris to gain upvotes. It's my first medal, and I was really sincere in thanking Chris for his notebooks and cleaned up TFrecords!</strong></p>",
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      "postDate": "2020-08-18T00:56:35.210Z",
      "content": "<p>I believe many of us have benefited from <a href=\"https://www.kaggle.com/cdeotte\" target=\"_blank\">@cdeotte</a>'s Triple Stratified Leak Free TFrecords. Here, me and my team sincerely thank him for his contribution - without his selfless contribution, I would still be struggling to create proper TFrecords by myself.</p>\n<p>Note: There are many other selfless people like <a href=\"https://www.kaggle.com/datafan07\" target=\"_blank\">@datafan07</a> who contributed in one way or another, and you guys deserve our due respect.</p>\n<p><strong>UPDATE:  I didn't expect this post to gain such attention - and to clarify, my intention was never to hinge on the popularity of Chris to gain upvotes. It's my first medal, and I was really sincere in thanking Chris for his notebooks and cleaned up TFrecords!</strong></p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "I believe many of us have benefited from @cdeotte's Triple Stratified Leak Free TFrecords. Here, me and my team sincerely thank him for his contribution - without his selfless contribution, I would still be struggling to create proper TFrecords by myself.\n\nNote: There are many other selfless people like @datafan07 who contributed in one way or another, and you guys deserve our due respect.\n\n\n**UPDATE:  I didn't expect this post to gain such attention - and to clarify, my intention was never to hinge on the popularity of Chris to gain upvotes. It's my first medal, and I was really sincere in thanking Chris for his notebooks and cleaned up TFrecords!**",
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      "postDate": "2020-08-18T05:24:09.137Z",
      "content": "<p>Congratulations <a href=\"https://www.kaggle.com/reighns\" target=\"_blank\">@reighns</a> and team on achieving 2 silver medals in one day! Thank you for the tribute. You and your team did great. I remember you asking me questions about setting up your CV. It shows that you set it up correctly. Well done.</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "Congratulations @reighns and team on achieving 2 silver medals in one day! Thank you for the tribute. You and your team did great. I remember you asking me questions about setting up your CV. It shows that you set it up correctly. Well done.",
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          "postDate": "2020-08-18T05:43:43.793Z",
          "content": "<p><a href=\"https://www.kaggle.com/cdeotte\" target=\"_blank\">@cdeotte</a> Thanks! Yea, and really thanks for replying back to me, much appreciated. I also bragged about how a GM with triple rank 1 replied me LMAO</p>",
          "rawMarkdown": "@cdeotte Thanks! Yea, and really thanks for replying back to me, much appreciated. I also bragged about how a GM with triple rank 1 replied me LMAO",
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      "postDate": "2020-08-18T01:08:30.097Z",
      "content": "<p>Many thanks to <a href=\"https://www.kaggle.com/cdeotte\" target=\"_blank\">@cdeotte</a>! Thanks for the selfless sharing! Both the dataset and the kernel are very useful! I built my work mainly on that. </p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "Many thanks to @cdeotte! Thanks for the selfless sharing! Both the dataset and the kernel are very useful! I built my work mainly on that. ",
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      "postDate": "2020-08-18T05:40:49.787Z",
      "content": "<p>Thanks to <a href=\"https://www.kaggle.com/cdeotte\" target=\"_blank\">@cdeotte</a>!  I really learned quite a lot from your notebooks. Great job.<br>\nMany thanks to other kagglers sharing their notebooks and ideas as well!</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "Thanks to @cdeotte!  I really learned quite a lot from your notebooks. Great job.\nMany thanks to other kagglers sharing their notebooks and ideas as well!",
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      "id": 974576,
      "postDate": "2020-08-18T01:39:22.063Z",
      "content": "<p>Your notebooks are really helpful, which supports us and make us stable by getting a good score.</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "Your notebooks are really helpful, which supports us and make us stable by getting a good score.",
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      "postDate": "2020-08-18T01:12:17.077Z",
      "content": "<p>+1 ! many thanks to <a href=\"https://www.kaggle.com/cdeotte\" target=\"_blank\">@cdeotte</a>! we could not have done it without his amazing public notebooks. </p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "+1 ! many thanks to @cdeotte! we could not have done it without his amazing public notebooks. ",
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      "postDate": "2020-08-19T04:07:08.827Z",
      "content": "<p>Thanks very much <a href=\"https://www.kaggle.com/cdeotte\" target=\"_blank\">@cdeotte</a>  for the amazing notebooks, insight and advice. Its a testament to your work that as a complete novice I was able to do well by just using your kernels and reading your posts. I learnt so many important ML concepts from that one single notebook - Triple Stratified Kfold with TFRecords. I think that my goal would be to be able to write something neat and efficient like that, so in a way it also showed the long road ahead. </p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "Thanks very much @cdeotte  for the amazing notebooks, insight and advice. Its a testament to your work that as a complete novice I was able to do well by just using your kernels and reading your posts. I learnt so many important ML concepts from that one single notebook - Triple Stratified Kfold with TFRecords. I think that my goal would be to be able to write something neat and efficient like that, so in a way it also showed the long road ahead. ",
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      "postDate": "2020-08-18T03:41:31.190Z",
      "content": "<p>It was my first competition in which I have really worked hard, thanks to Chris's amazing work and his discussions or whether his datasets, without all of them, I don't think many of us here in the competition would be able to achieve what we have achieved. I sincerely thank Chris for his amazing and selfless work. And I thank all who have shared even a little bit of knowledge with community, There are a lot of people who have helped me get here(even if I am at 650+). Thanks to you all, thank you <a href=\"https://www.kaggle.com/cdeotte\" target=\"_blank\">@cdeotte</a> <a href=\"https://www.kaggle.com/nroman\" target=\"_blank\">@nroman</a> <a href=\"https://www.kaggle.com/ddanevskyi\" target=\"_blank\">@ddanevskyi</a>  and many more others! Thanks to the whole community!</p>\n<hr>\n<p>Update: I am no more 687, I'm 624 now! 😄😄</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "It was my first competition in which I have really worked hard, thanks to Chris's amazing work and his discussions or whether his datasets, without all of them, I don't think many of us here in the competition would be able to achieve what we have achieved. I sincerely thank Chris for his amazing and selfless work. And I thank all who have shared even a little bit of knowledge with community, There are a lot of people who have helped me get here(even if I am at 650+). Thanks to you all, thank you @cdeotte @nroman @ddanevskyi  and many more others! Thanks to the whole community!\n\n****\n\nUpdate: I am no more 687, I'm 624 now! 😄😄",
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    {
      "id": 974573,
      "postDate": "2020-08-18T01:37:25.237Z",
      "content": "<p><a href=\"https://www.kaggle.com/cdeotte\" target=\"_blank\">@cdeotte</a> is the Keanu Reeves of this competition. Thank you!</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "@cdeotte is the Keanu Reeves of this competition. Thank you!",
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      "id": 974536,
      "postDate": "2020-08-18T01:20:03.493Z",
      "content": "<p><a href=\"https://www.kaggle.com/cdeotte\" target=\"_blank\">@cdeotte</a> If your notebooks and resolutions over different topics are not there then I don't know where we are on Leaderboard. It's all your regular guidance which pushes us at a good score. Thanks for the support. We are grateful to you.🙏🙏🙏</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "@cdeotte If your notebooks and resolutions over different topics are not there then I don't know where we are on Leaderboard. It's all your regular guidance which pushes us at a good score. Thanks for the support. We are grateful to you.🙏🙏🙏",
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      "id": 974539,
      "postDate": "2020-08-18T01:21:43.370Z",
      "content": "<p>Heartfull thanks to <a href=\"https://www.kaggle.com/cdeotte\" target=\"_blank\">@cdeotte</a>. His contributions towards Kaggle specifically this competition is immeasurable. Learned a lot as a beginner and able to achieve this rank through the contributions of Chris Deotte. His notebooks and discussions were awesome and helpful. He is  <strong>the Andrew Ng of Kaggle</strong>.</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "Heartfull thanks to @cdeotte. His contributions towards Kaggle specifically this competition is immeasurable. Learned a lot as a beginner and able to achieve this rank through the contributions of Chris Deotte. His notebooks and discussions were awesome and helpful. He is  **the Andrew Ng of Kaggle**.",
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      "postDate": "2020-08-18T02:06:24.930Z",
      "content": "<p>Agree <a href=\"https://www.kaggle.com/reighns\" target=\"_blank\">@reighns</a> <br>\nthanks to <a href=\"https://www.kaggle.com/cdeotte\" target=\"_blank\">@cdeotte</a> , <a href=\"https://www.kaggle.com/datafan07\" target=\"_blank\">@datafan07</a> and others for their kernels which help us start from a already great baseline!!</p>\n<p>was very helpful for me and to learn how they build these and coding is awesome to learn from!!</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "Agree @reighns \nthanks to @cdeotte , @datafan07 and others for their kernels which help us start from a already great baseline!!\n\nwas very helpful for me and to learn how they build these and coding is awesome to learn from!!"
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      "postDate": "2020-08-18T01:25:44.590Z",
      "content": "<p>Thanks to <a href=\"https://www.kaggle.com/cdeotte\" target=\"_blank\">@cdeotte</a>, I am a newbie in data competitions and it is the first time to learn to use tf. I have learned so much from you, thank you very much!</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "Thanks to @cdeotte, I am a newbie in data competitions and it is the first time to learn to use tf. I have learned so much from you, thank you very much!"
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      "postDate": "2020-08-18T04:51:33.110Z",
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      "postDate": "2020-08-18T04:09:26.093Z",
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      "postDate": "2020-08-18T01:08:33.467Z",
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      "post_date": "2020-08-18T05:24:09.137000",
      "content": "<p>Congratulations <a href=\"https://www.kaggle.com/reighns\" target=\"_blank\">@reighns</a> and team on achieving 2 silver medals in one day! Thank you for the tribute. You and your team did great. I remember you asking me questions about setting up your CV. It shows that you set it up correctly. Well done.</p>",
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          "author_name": "gao-hongnan",
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          "post_date": "2020-08-18T05:43:43.793000",
          "content": "<p><a href=\"https://www.kaggle.com/cdeotte\" target=\"_blank\">@cdeotte</a> Thanks! Yea, and really thanks for replying back to me, much appreciated. I also bragged about how a GM with triple rank 1 replied me LMAO</p>",
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      "id": 974519,
      "author_name": "Helen",
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      "post_date": "2020-08-18T01:08:30.097000",
      "content": "<p>Many thanks to <a href=\"https://www.kaggle.com/cdeotte\" target=\"_blank\">@cdeotte</a>! Thanks for the selfless sharing! Both the dataset and the kernel are very useful! I built my work mainly on that. </p>",
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      "id": 975005,
      "author_name": "Robert Russell",
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      "post_date": "2020-08-18T05:40:49.787000",
      "content": "<p>Thanks to <a href=\"https://www.kaggle.com/cdeotte\" target=\"_blank\">@cdeotte</a>!  I really learned quite a lot from your notebooks. Great job.<br>\nMany thanks to other kagglers sharing their notebooks and ideas as well!</p>",
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      "id": 974576,
      "author_name": "ShyamPatel2000",
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      "post_date": "2020-08-18T01:39:22.063000",
      "content": "<p>Your notebooks are really helpful, which supports us and make us stable by getting a good score.</p>",
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      "author_name": "Mehul Sampat",
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      "post_date": "2020-08-18T01:12:17.077000",
      "content": "<p>+1 ! many thanks to <a href=\"https://www.kaggle.com/cdeotte\" target=\"_blank\">@cdeotte</a>! we could not have done it without his amazing public notebooks. </p>",
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      "id": 976722,
      "author_name": "J Seb",
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      "post_date": "2020-08-19T04:07:08.827000",
      "content": "<p>Thanks very much <a href=\"https://www.kaggle.com/cdeotte\" target=\"_blank\">@cdeotte</a>  for the amazing notebooks, insight and advice. Its a testament to your work that as a complete novice I was able to do well by just using your kernels and reading your posts. I learnt so many important ML concepts from that one single notebook - Triple Stratified Kfold with TFRecords. I think that my goal would be to be able to write something neat and efficient like that, so in a way it also showed the long road ahead. </p>",
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      "id": 974770,
      "author_name": "Gajendra Saraswat",
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      "post_date": "2020-08-18T03:41:31.190000",
      "content": "<p>It was my first competition in which I have really worked hard, thanks to Chris's amazing work and his discussions or whether his datasets, without all of them, I don't think many of us here in the competition would be able to achieve what we have achieved. I sincerely thank Chris for his amazing and selfless work. And I thank all who have shared even a little bit of knowledge with community, There are a lot of people who have helped me get here(even if I am at 650+). Thanks to you all, thank you <a href=\"https://www.kaggle.com/cdeotte\" target=\"_blank\">@cdeotte</a> <a href=\"https://www.kaggle.com/nroman\" target=\"_blank\">@nroman</a> <a href=\"https://www.kaggle.com/ddanevskyi\" target=\"_blank\">@ddanevskyi</a>  and many more others! Thanks to the whole community!</p>\n<hr>\n<p>Update: I am no more 687, I'm 624 now! 😄😄</p>",
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      "id": 974573,
      "author_name": "Pragyan Subedi",
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      "post_date": "2020-08-18T01:37:25.237000",
      "content": "<p><a href=\"https://www.kaggle.com/cdeotte\" target=\"_blank\">@cdeotte</a> is the Keanu Reeves of this competition. Thank you!</p>",
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      "id": 974536,
      "author_name": "Bhautik Donga",
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      "post_date": "2020-08-18T01:20:03.493000",
      "content": "<p><a href=\"https://www.kaggle.com/cdeotte\" target=\"_blank\">@cdeotte</a> If your notebooks and resolutions over different topics are not there then I don't know where we are on Leaderboard. It's all your regular guidance which pushes us at a good score. Thanks for the support. We are grateful to you.🙏🙏🙏</p>",
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      "id": 974539,
      "author_name": "Aakash V",
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      "post_date": "2020-08-18T01:21:43.370000",
      "content": "<p>Heartfull thanks to <a href=\"https://www.kaggle.com/cdeotte\" target=\"_blank\">@cdeotte</a>. His contributions towards Kaggle specifically this competition is immeasurable. Learned a lot as a beginner and able to achieve this rank through the contributions of Chris Deotte. His notebooks and discussions were awesome and helpful. He is  <strong>the Andrew Ng of Kaggle</strong>.</p>",
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      "id": 974632,
      "author_name": "Kamal Das",
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      "post_date": "2020-08-18T02:06:24.930000",
      "content": "<p>Agree <a href=\"https://www.kaggle.com/reighns\" target=\"_blank\">@reighns</a> <br>\nthanks to <a href=\"https://www.kaggle.com/cdeotte\" target=\"_blank\">@cdeotte</a> , <a href=\"https://www.kaggle.com/datafan07\" target=\"_blank\">@datafan07</a> and others for their kernels which help us start from a already great baseline!!</p>\n<p>was very helpful for me and to learn how they build these and coding is awesome to learn from!!</p>",
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      "id": 974549,
      "author_name": "xckkcxxck",
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      "post_date": "2020-08-18T01:25:44.590000",
      "content": "<p>Thanks to <a href=\"https://www.kaggle.com/cdeotte\" target=\"_blank\">@cdeotte</a>, I am a newbie in data competitions and it is the first time to learn to use tf. I have learned so much from you, thank you very much!</p>",
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      "post_date": "2020-08-18T04:51:33.110000",
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    "974494": "I believe many of us have benefited from @cdeotte's Triple Stratified Leak Free TFrecords. Here, me and my team sincerely thank him for his contribution - without his selfless contribution, I would still be struggling to create proper TFrecords by myself.\n\nNote: There are many other selfless people like @datafan07 who contributed in one way or another, and you guys deserve our due respect.\n\n\n**UPDATE:  I didn't expect this post to gain such attention - and to clarify, my intention was never to hinge on the popularity of Chris to gain upvotes. It's my first medal, and I was really sincere in thanking Chris for his notebooks and cleaned up TFrecords!**",
    "974984": "Congratulations @reighns and team on achieving 2 silver medals in one day! Thank you for the tribute. You and your team did great. I remember you asking me questions about setting up your CV. It shows that you set it up correctly. Well done.",
    "974519": "Many thanks to @cdeotte! Thanks for the selfless sharing! Both the dataset and the kernel are very useful! I built my work mainly on that. ",
    "975005": "Thanks to @cdeotte!  I really learned quite a lot from your notebooks. Great job.\nMany thanks to other kagglers sharing their notebooks and ideas as well!",
    "974576": "Your notebooks are really helpful, which supports us and make us stable by getting a good score.",
    "974525": "+1 ! many thanks to @cdeotte! we could not have done it without his amazing public notebooks. ",
    "976722": "Thanks very much @cdeotte  for the amazing notebooks, insight and advice. Its a testament to your work that as a complete novice I was able to do well by just using your kernels and reading your posts. I learnt so many important ML concepts from that one single notebook - Triple Stratified Kfold with TFRecords. I think that my goal would be to be able to write something neat and efficient like that, so in a way it also showed the long road ahead. ",
    "974770": "It was my first competition in which I have really worked hard, thanks to Chris's amazing work and his discussions or whether his datasets, without all of them, I don't think many of us here in the competition would be able to achieve what we have achieved. I sincerely thank Chris for his amazing and selfless work. And I thank all who have shared even a little bit of knowledge with community, There are a lot of people who have helped me get here(even if I am at 650+). Thanks to you all, thank you @cdeotte @nroman @ddanevskyi  and many more others! Thanks to the whole community!\n\n****\n\nUpdate: I am no more 687, I'm 624 now! 😄😄",
    "974573": "@cdeotte is the Keanu Reeves of this competition. Thank you!",
    "974536": "@cdeotte If your notebooks and resolutions over different topics are not there then I don't know where we are on Leaderboard. It's all your regular guidance which pushes us at a good score. Thanks for the support. We are grateful to you.🙏🙏🙏",
    "974539": "Heartfull thanks to @cdeotte. His contributions towards Kaggle specifically this competition is immeasurable. Learned a lot as a beginner and able to achieve this rank through the contributions of Chris Deotte. His notebooks and discussions were awesome and helpful. He is  **the Andrew Ng of Kaggle**.",
    "974632": "Agree @reighns \nthanks to @cdeotte , @datafan07 and others for their kernels which help us start from a already great baseline!!\n\nwas very helpful for me and to learn how they build these and coding is awesome to learn from!!",
    "974549": "Thanks to @cdeotte, I am a newbie in data competitions and it is the first time to learn to use tf. I have learned so much from you, thank you very much!",
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