{
  "id": 565365,
  "title": "Why is there a four-month gap between the Final Submission Deadline and the Competition End Date?",
  "url": "/competitions/stanford-rna-3d-folding/discussion/565365",
  "author_name": "",
  "post_date": "2025-02-28T07:47:15.787228400Z",
  "votes": 3,
  "comment_count": 4,
  "views": 0,
  "content": "<blockquote>\n  <p>May 29, 2025 - Final Submission Deadline<br>\n  September 24, 2025 - Competition End Date</p>\n</blockquote>",
  "messages": [
    {
      "id": "3136113",
      "postDate": "02/28/2025 07:47:15",
      "content": "<blockquote>\n  <p>May 29, 2025 - Final Submission Deadline<br>\n  September 24, 2025 - Competition End Date</p>\n</blockquote>",
      "rawMarkdown": "> May 29, 2025 - Final Submission Deadline\n> September 24, 2025 - Competition End Date",
      "votes": null
    },
    {
      "id": "3136127",
      "postDate": "02/28/2025 08:04:56",
      "content": "<blockquote>\n  <blockquote>\n    <p>Future data phase. Your selected submissions will be run against a completely new private test set generated after the end of the model training phases. There will be up to 40 sequences in the test set, all of them used for the private leaderboard.</p>\n  </blockquote>\n</blockquote>",
      "rawMarkdown": ">>Future data phase. Your selected submissions will be run against a completely new private test set generated after the end of the model training phases. There will be up to 40 sequences in the test set, all of them used for the private leaderboard.",
      "votes": null
    },
    {
      "id": "3136137",
      "postDate": "02/28/2025 08:23:43",
      "content": "<p>If it were a competition dealing with time series, I could understand, but I don't think that's the case. <br>\nLike many other competitions, why don't the Final Submission Deadline and the Competition End Date arrive at the same time?</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "If it were a competition dealing with time series, I could understand, but I don't think that's the case. \nLike many other competitions, why don't the Final Submission Deadline and the Competition End Date arrive at the same time?",
      "votes": null
    },
    {
      "id": "3136138",
      "postDate": "02/28/2025 08:26:26",
      "content": "<p>It's not time series, but the hosts want the final score to be base on future data. This also ensure no leakage/contamination so it's a good choice (and possibly why they chose it).</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "It's not time series, but the hosts want the final score to be base on future data. This also ensure no leakage/contamination so it's a good choice (and possibly why they chose it).",
      "votes": null
    },
    {
      "id": "3136171",
      "postDate": "02/28/2025 09:10:23",
      "content": "<p>A reason for that could be to prevent cheating and probing</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "A reason for that could be to prevent cheating and probing",
      "votes": null
    }
  ],
  "comments": [
    {
      "id": 3136127,
      "author_name": "shlomoron",
      "author_url": "",
      "post_date": "02/28/2025 08:04:56",
      "content": "<blockquote>\n  <blockquote>\n    <p>Future data phase. Your selected submissions will be run against a completely new private test set generated after the end of the model training phases. There will be up to 40 sequences in the test set, all of them used for the private leaderboard.</p>\n  </blockquote>\n</blockquote>",
      "votes": null,
      "replies": [
        {
          "id": 3136137,
          "author_name": "welshonionman",
          "author_url": "",
          "post_date": "02/28/2025 08:23:43",
          "content": "<p>If it were a competition dealing with time series, I could understand, but I don't think that's the case. <br>\nLike many other competitions, why don't the Final Submission Deadline and the Competition End Date arrive at the same time?</p>",
          "votes": null,
          "replies": [
            {
              "id": 3136138,
              "author_name": "shlomoron",
              "author_url": "",
              "post_date": "02/28/2025 08:26:26",
              "content": "<p>It's not time series, but the hosts want the final score to be base on future data. This also ensure no leakage/contamination so it's a good choice (and possibly why they chose it).</p>",
              "votes": null,
              "replies": []
            },
            {
              "id": 3136171,
              "author_name": "tahaalshatiri",
              "author_url": "",
              "post_date": "02/28/2025 09:10:23",
              "content": "<p>A reason for that could be to prevent cheating and probing</p>",
              "votes": null,
              "replies": []
            }
          ]
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "raw_markdown_by_id": {
    "3136113": "> May 29, 2025 - Final Submission Deadline\n> September 24, 2025 - Competition End Date",
    "3136127": ">>Future data phase. Your selected submissions will be run against a completely new private test set generated after the end of the model training phases. There will be up to 40 sequences in the test set, all of them used for the private leaderboard.",
    "3136137": "If it were a competition dealing with time series, I could understand, but I don't think that's the case. \nLike many other competitions, why don't the Final Submission Deadline and the Competition End Date arrive at the same time?",
    "3136138": "It's not time series, but the hosts want the final score to be base on future data. This also ensure no leakage/contamination so it's a good choice (and possibly why they chose it).",
    "3136171": "A reason for that could be to prevent cheating and probing"
  },
  "source": "meta"
}