{
  "id": 186023,
  "title": "Join me in congratulating the TPU Stars!",
  "url": "/competitions/siim-isic-melanoma-classification/discussion/186023",
  "author_name": "Julia Elliott",
  "post_date": "2020-09-22T22:39:24.308000",
  "votes": 30,
  "comment_count": 6,
  "views": 0,
  "content": "<p>I'm excited to be announcing our newest <a href=\"https://www.kaggle.com/tpu-stars\" target=\"_blank\">TPU Stars</a>, awarded to the <a href=\"https://www.kaggle.com/c/siim-isic-melanoma-classification/discussion/156966\" target=\"_blank\">most knowledgeable and helpful TPU experts</a> in this competition.</p>\n<p>✨ <a href=\"https://www.kaggle.com/cdeotte\" target=\"_blank\">Chris Deotte</a> was a much-touted source of TPU knowledge and support in this competition and a repeat TPU Star winner! He contributed widely-used TFRecords, and his <a href=\"https://www.kaggle.com/cdeotte/triple-stratified-kfold-with-tfrecords\" target=\"_blank\">Triple Stratified KFold with TFRecords</a> was an outstanding starter for working with TFRecords on TPUs in this competition.<br>\n✨ <a href=\"https://www.kaggle.com/datafan07\" target=\"_blank\">Ertuğrul Demir</a> whose well-organized <a href=\"https://www.kaggle.com/datafan07/analysis-of-melanoma-metadata-and-effnet-ensemble\" target=\"_blank\">Analysis of Melanoma Metadata and EffNet Ensemble</a> notebook does a great job of stepping through an approach to this competition's dataset, from exploring the data to creating an EfficientNet ensemble.<br>\n✨ <a href=\"https://www.kaggle.com/agentauers\" target=\"_blank\">AgentAuers</a> authored this fantastic TF + TPUs EfficientNet baseline, <a href=\"https://www.kaggle.com/agentauers/incredible-tpus-finetune-effnetb0-b6-at-once\" target=\"_blank\">Incredible TPUs - finetune EffNetB0-B6 at once</a>, which countless others leveraged in their own notebooks!<br>\n✨ <a href=\"https://www.kaggle.com/graf10a\" target=\"_blank\">Alexey Pronin</a> wrote the <a href=\"https://www.kaggle.com/graf10a/efficientnet-bn-tabular-features-tf-cv5-512x512\" target=\"_blank\">EfficientNet BN+Tabular Features TF CV5 512x512</a> notebook that really promoted experimentation through an end-to-end detailed model development walk-through.<br>\n✨ <a href=\"https://www.kaggle.com/mobassir\" target=\"_blank\">Mobassir</a> built upon other stars' contributions with his own qualitative expansion in his <a href=\"https://www.kaggle.com/mobassir/in-depth-melanoma-with-modeling\" target=\"_blank\">In-Depth Melanoma with modeling</a> notebook.</p>\n<p>All of these stars will be seeing their 20 hrs/wk of additional TPU quota for each of the next four weeks. Please join me in congratulating all of them!</p>\n<p>✨ An extra special honorable mention to our Kaggle intern, <a href=\"https://www.kaggle.com/amyjang\" target=\"_blank\">Amy Jang</a> who made tremendous notebook contributions during her few months with us, including this <a href=\"https://www.kaggle.com/amyjang/tensorflow-transfer-learning-melanoma\" target=\"_blank\">TensorFlow + Transfer Learning: Melanoma</a> notebook, demonstrating how to approach this dataset using TensorFlow with transfer learning.</p>",
  "messages": [
    {
      "id": 1023034,
      "postDate": "2020-09-22T22:39:24.310Z",
      "content": "<p>I'm excited to be announcing our newest <a href=\"https://www.kaggle.com/tpu-stars\" target=\"_blank\">TPU Stars</a>, awarded to the <a href=\"https://www.kaggle.com/c/siim-isic-melanoma-classification/discussion/156966\" target=\"_blank\">most knowledgeable and helpful TPU experts</a> in this competition.</p>\n<p>✨ <a href=\"https://www.kaggle.com/cdeotte\" target=\"_blank\">Chris Deotte</a> was a much-touted source of TPU knowledge and support in this competition and a repeat TPU Star winner! He contributed widely-used TFRecords, and his <a href=\"https://www.kaggle.com/cdeotte/triple-stratified-kfold-with-tfrecords\" target=\"_blank\">Triple Stratified KFold with TFRecords</a> was an outstanding starter for working with TFRecords on TPUs in this competition.<br>\n✨ <a href=\"https://www.kaggle.com/datafan07\" target=\"_blank\">Ertuğrul Demir</a> whose well-organized <a href=\"https://www.kaggle.com/datafan07/analysis-of-melanoma-metadata-and-effnet-ensemble\" target=\"_blank\">Analysis of Melanoma Metadata and EffNet Ensemble</a> notebook does a great job of stepping through an approach to this competition's dataset, from exploring the data to creating an EfficientNet ensemble.<br>\n✨ <a href=\"https://www.kaggle.com/agentauers\" target=\"_blank\">AgentAuers</a> authored this fantastic TF + TPUs EfficientNet baseline, <a href=\"https://www.kaggle.com/agentauers/incredible-tpus-finetune-effnetb0-b6-at-once\" target=\"_blank\">Incredible TPUs - finetune EffNetB0-B6 at once</a>, which countless others leveraged in their own notebooks!<br>\n✨ <a href=\"https://www.kaggle.com/graf10a\" target=\"_blank\">Alexey Pronin</a> wrote the <a href=\"https://www.kaggle.com/graf10a/efficientnet-bn-tabular-features-tf-cv5-512x512\" target=\"_blank\">EfficientNet BN+Tabular Features TF CV5 512x512</a> notebook that really promoted experimentation through an end-to-end detailed model development walk-through.<br>\n✨ <a href=\"https://www.kaggle.com/mobassir\" target=\"_blank\">Mobassir</a> built upon other stars' contributions with his own qualitative expansion in his <a href=\"https://www.kaggle.com/mobassir/in-depth-melanoma-with-modeling\" target=\"_blank\">In-Depth Melanoma with modeling</a> notebook.</p>\n<p>All of these stars will be seeing their 20 hrs/wk of additional TPU quota for each of the next four weeks. Please join me in congratulating all of them!</p>\n<p>✨ An extra special honorable mention to our Kaggle intern, <a href=\"https://www.kaggle.com/amyjang\" target=\"_blank\">Amy Jang</a> who made tremendous notebook contributions during her few months with us, including this <a href=\"https://www.kaggle.com/amyjang/tensorflow-transfer-learning-melanoma\" target=\"_blank\">TensorFlow + Transfer Learning: Melanoma</a> notebook, demonstrating how to approach this dataset using TensorFlow with transfer learning.</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "I'm excited to be announcing our newest [TPU Stars](https://www.kaggle.com/tpu-stars), awarded to the [most knowledgeable and helpful TPU experts](https://www.kaggle.com/c/siim-isic-melanoma-classification/discussion/156966) in this competition.\n\n✨ [Chris Deotte](https://www.kaggle.com/cdeotte) was a much-touted source of TPU knowledge and support in this competition and a repeat TPU Star winner! He contributed widely-used TFRecords, and his [Triple Stratified KFold with TFRecords](https://www.kaggle.com/cdeotte/triple-stratified-kfold-with-tfrecords) was an outstanding starter for working with TFRecords on TPUs in this competition.\n✨ [Ertuğrul Demir](https://www.kaggle.com/datafan07) whose well-organized [Analysis of Melanoma Metadata and EffNet Ensemble](https://www.kaggle.com/datafan07/analysis-of-melanoma-metadata-and-effnet-ensemble) notebook does a great job of stepping through an approach to this competition's dataset, from exploring the data to creating an EfficientNet ensemble.\n✨ [AgentAuers](https://www.kaggle.com/agentauers) authored this fantastic TF + TPUs EfficientNet baseline, [Incredible TPUs - finetune EffNetB0-B6 at once](https://www.kaggle.com/agentauers/incredible-tpus-finetune-effnetb0-b6-at-once), which countless others leveraged in their own notebooks!\n✨ [Alexey Pronin](https://www.kaggle.com/graf10a) wrote the [EfficientNet BN+Tabular Features TF CV5 512x512](https://www.kaggle.com/graf10a/efficientnet-bn-tabular-features-tf-cv5-512x512) notebook that really promoted experimentation through an end-to-end detailed model development walk-through.\n✨ [Mobassir](https://www.kaggle.com/mobassir) built upon other stars' contributions with his own qualitative expansion in his [In-Depth Melanoma with modeling](https://www.kaggle.com/mobassir/in-depth-melanoma-with-modeling) notebook.\n\nAll of these stars will be seeing their 20 hrs/wk of additional TPU quota for each of the next four weeks. Please join me in congratulating all of them!\n\n✨ An extra special honorable mention to our Kaggle intern, [Amy Jang](https://www.kaggle.com/amyjang) who made tremendous notebook contributions during her few months with us, including this [TensorFlow + Transfer Learning: Melanoma](https://www.kaggle.com/amyjang/tensorflow-transfer-learning-melanoma) notebook, demonstrating how to approach this dataset using TensorFlow with transfer learning.",
      "votes": 30
    },
    {
      "id": 1023095,
      "postDate": "2020-09-23T00:38:03.423Z",
      "content": "<p>Congratulations <a href=\"https://www.kaggle.com/datafan07\" target=\"_blank\">@datafan07</a> <a href=\"https://www.kaggle.com/agentauers\" target=\"_blank\">@agentauers</a> <a href=\"https://www.kaggle.com/graf10a\" target=\"_blank\">@graf10a</a> <a href=\"https://www.kaggle.com/mobassir\" target=\"_blank\">@mobassir</a> <a href=\"https://www.kaggle.com/amyjang\" target=\"_blank\">@amyjang</a> !! Thanks for all your contributions.</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "Congratulations @datafan07 @agentauers @graf10a @mobassir @amyjang !! Thanks for all your contributions.",
      "votes": 6,
      "replies": [
        {
          "id": 1023938,
          "postDate": "2020-09-23T14:41:01.627Z",
          "content": "<p><a href=\"https://www.kaggle.com/cdeotte\" target=\"_blank\">@cdeotte</a>  Congrats, learnt and yet to learn lot from you.</p>",
          "rawMarkdown": "@cdeotte  Congrats, learnt and yet to learn lot from you.",
          "votes": 1
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": 1024705,
      "postDate": "2020-09-24T04:38:42.960Z",
      "content": "<p>Thank you <a href=\"https://www.kaggle.com/cdeotte\" target=\"_blank\">@cdeotte</a> <a href=\"https://www.kaggle.com/datafan07\" target=\"_blank\">@datafan07</a> <a href=\"https://www.kaggle.com/agentauers\" target=\"_blank\">@agentauers</a> <a href=\"https://www.kaggle.com/graf10a\" target=\"_blank\">@graf10a</a> <a href=\"https://www.kaggle.com/mobassir\" target=\"_blank\">@mobassir</a> <a href=\"https://www.kaggle.com/amyjang\" target=\"_blank\">@amyjang</a> for the awesome contributions!</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "Thank you @cdeotte @datafan07 @agentauers @graf10a @mobassir @amyjang for the awesome contributions!",
      "votes": 4
    },
    {
      "id": 1023663,
      "postDate": "2020-09-23T11:17:11.657Z",
      "content": "<p>Thanks for including me with these great kagglers and congratulations all!</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "Thanks for including me with these great kagglers and congratulations all!",
      "votes": 1
    },
    {
      "id": 1024264,
      "postDate": "2020-09-23T18:12:21.493Z",
      "content": "<p>great work !! Many congratulations to  <a href=\"https://www.kaggle.com/datafan07\" target=\"_blank\">@datafan07</a> <a href=\"https://www.kaggle.com/agentauers\" target=\"_blank\">@agentauers</a> <a href=\"https://www.kaggle.com/graf10a\" target=\"_blank\">@graf10a</a> <a href=\"https://www.kaggle.com/mobassir\" target=\"_blank\">@mobassir</a> <a href=\"https://www.kaggle.com/amyjang\" target=\"_blank\">@amyjang</a> !</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "great work !! Many congratulations to  @datafan07 @agentauers @graf10a @mobassir @amyjang !",
      "votes": 2
    },
    {
      "id": 1023188,
      "postDate": "2020-09-23T02:46:37.807Z",
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      "votes": 2,
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  "comments": [
    {
      "id": 1023095,
      "author_name": "Chris Deotte",
      "author_url": "",
      "post_date": "2020-09-23T00:38:03.423000",
      "content": "<p>Congratulations <a href=\"https://www.kaggle.com/datafan07\" target=\"_blank\">@datafan07</a> <a href=\"https://www.kaggle.com/agentauers\" target=\"_blank\">@agentauers</a> <a href=\"https://www.kaggle.com/graf10a\" target=\"_blank\">@graf10a</a> <a href=\"https://www.kaggle.com/mobassir\" target=\"_blank\">@mobassir</a> <a href=\"https://www.kaggle.com/amyjang\" target=\"_blank\">@amyjang</a> !! Thanks for all your contributions.</p>",
      "votes": 6,
      "replies": [
        {
          "id": 1023938,
          "author_name": "Rashmi Margani",
          "author_url": "",
          "post_date": "2020-09-23T14:41:01.627000",
          "content": "<p><a href=\"https://www.kaggle.com/cdeotte\" target=\"_blank\">@cdeotte</a>  Congrats, learnt and yet to learn lot from you.</p>",
          "votes": 1,
          "replies": []
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": 1024705,
      "author_name": "Ronaldo S.A. Batista",
      "author_url": "",
      "post_date": "2020-09-24T04:38:42.960000",
      "content": "<p>Thank you <a href=\"https://www.kaggle.com/cdeotte\" target=\"_blank\">@cdeotte</a> <a href=\"https://www.kaggle.com/datafan07\" target=\"_blank\">@datafan07</a> <a href=\"https://www.kaggle.com/agentauers\" target=\"_blank\">@agentauers</a> <a href=\"https://www.kaggle.com/graf10a\" target=\"_blank\">@graf10a</a> <a href=\"https://www.kaggle.com/mobassir\" target=\"_blank\">@mobassir</a> <a href=\"https://www.kaggle.com/amyjang\" target=\"_blank\">@amyjang</a> for the awesome contributions!</p>",
      "votes": 4,
      "replies": []
    },
    {
      "id": 1023663,
      "author_name": "Ertuğrul Demir",
      "author_url": "",
      "post_date": "2020-09-23T11:17:11.657000",
      "content": "<p>Thanks for including me with these great kagglers and congratulations all!</p>",
      "votes": 1,
      "replies": []
    },
    {
      "id": 1024264,
      "author_name": "IndrajitSingh",
      "author_url": "",
      "post_date": "2020-09-23T18:12:21.493000",
      "content": "<p>great work !! Many congratulations to  <a href=\"https://www.kaggle.com/datafan07\" target=\"_blank\">@datafan07</a> <a href=\"https://www.kaggle.com/agentauers\" target=\"_blank\">@agentauers</a> <a href=\"https://www.kaggle.com/graf10a\" target=\"_blank\">@graf10a</a> <a href=\"https://www.kaggle.com/mobassir\" target=\"_blank\">@mobassir</a> <a href=\"https://www.kaggle.com/amyjang\" target=\"_blank\">@amyjang</a> !</p>",
      "votes": 2,
      "replies": []
    },
    {
      "id": 1023188,
      "author_name": "",
      "author_url": "",
      "post_date": "2020-09-23T02:46:37.807000",
      "content": "",
      "votes": 2,
      "replies": []
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  "raw_markdown_by_id": {
    "1023034": "I'm excited to be announcing our newest [TPU Stars](https://www.kaggle.com/tpu-stars), awarded to the [most knowledgeable and helpful TPU experts](https://www.kaggle.com/c/siim-isic-melanoma-classification/discussion/156966) in this competition.\n\n✨ [Chris Deotte](https://www.kaggle.com/cdeotte) was a much-touted source of TPU knowledge and support in this competition and a repeat TPU Star winner! He contributed widely-used TFRecords, and his [Triple Stratified KFold with TFRecords](https://www.kaggle.com/cdeotte/triple-stratified-kfold-with-tfrecords) was an outstanding starter for working with TFRecords on TPUs in this competition.\n✨ [Ertuğrul Demir](https://www.kaggle.com/datafan07) whose well-organized [Analysis of Melanoma Metadata and EffNet Ensemble](https://www.kaggle.com/datafan07/analysis-of-melanoma-metadata-and-effnet-ensemble) notebook does a great job of stepping through an approach to this competition's dataset, from exploring the data to creating an EfficientNet ensemble.\n✨ [AgentAuers](https://www.kaggle.com/agentauers) authored this fantastic TF + TPUs EfficientNet baseline, [Incredible TPUs - finetune EffNetB0-B6 at once](https://www.kaggle.com/agentauers/incredible-tpus-finetune-effnetb0-b6-at-once), which countless others leveraged in their own notebooks!\n✨ [Alexey Pronin](https://www.kaggle.com/graf10a) wrote the [EfficientNet BN+Tabular Features TF CV5 512x512](https://www.kaggle.com/graf10a/efficientnet-bn-tabular-features-tf-cv5-512x512) notebook that really promoted experimentation through an end-to-end detailed model development walk-through.\n✨ [Mobassir](https://www.kaggle.com/mobassir) built upon other stars' contributions with his own qualitative expansion in his [In-Depth Melanoma with modeling](https://www.kaggle.com/mobassir/in-depth-melanoma-with-modeling) notebook.\n\nAll of these stars will be seeing their 20 hrs/wk of additional TPU quota for each of the next four weeks. Please join me in congratulating all of them!\n\n✨ An extra special honorable mention to our Kaggle intern, [Amy Jang](https://www.kaggle.com/amyjang) who made tremendous notebook contributions during her few months with us, including this [TensorFlow + Transfer Learning: Melanoma](https://www.kaggle.com/amyjang/tensorflow-transfer-learning-melanoma) notebook, demonstrating how to approach this dataset using TensorFlow with transfer learning.",
    "1023095": "Congratulations @datafan07 @agentauers @graf10a @mobassir @amyjang !! Thanks for all your contributions.",
    "1024705": "Thank you @cdeotte @datafan07 @agentauers @graf10a @mobassir @amyjang for the awesome contributions!",
    "1023663": "Thanks for including me with these great kagglers and congratulations all!",
    "1024264": "great work !! Many congratulations to  @datafan07 @agentauers @graf10a @mobassir @amyjang !",
    "1023188": ""
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}