{
  "id": 22458,
  "title": "Team Merging",
  "url": "/competitions/state-farm-distracted-driver-detection/discussion/22458",
  "author_name": "",
  "post_date": "2016-07-24T12:21:06.607Z",
  "votes": null,
  "comment_count": 11,
  "views": 717,
  "content": "<p>Hi all.  The deadline for team mergers is a day away. I am looking for people wanting to merge to form a team and try to get to the top of the public leader board.  Preferably people with similar rank, but who are using different methods or pre-trained models, so that when we ensemble the improvement is more noticeable. </p>\n\n<p>-My rank is 64 with score of 0.20930.</p>\n\n<p>-I have been using vgg_16 as my base model and my improvements have come over semi_supervised learning iterations.</p>\n\n<p>-I have a GTX 1070 and a GTX 960</p>\n\n<p>Feel free to reply below.  I am thinking of a team size of between 2 and 5.</p>",
  "messages": [
    {
      "id": "128826",
      "postDate": "07/24/2016 12:21:06",
      "content": "<p>Hi all.  The deadline for team mergers is a day away. I am looking for people wanting to merge to form a team and try to get to the top of the public leader board.  Preferably people with similar rank, but who are using different methods or pre-trained models, so that when we ensemble the improvement is more noticeable. </p>\n\n<p>-My rank is 64 with score of 0.20930.</p>\n\n<p>-I have been using vgg_16 as my base model and my improvements have come over semi_supervised learning iterations.</p>\n\n<p>-I have a GTX 1070 and a GTX 960</p>\n\n<p>Feel free to reply below.  I am thinking of a team size of between 2 and 5.</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "Hi all.  The deadline for team mergers is a day away. I am looking for people wanting to merge to form a team and try to get to the top of the public leader board.  Preferably people with similar rank, but who are using different methods or pre-trained models, so that when we ensemble the improvement is more noticeable. \r\n\r\n-My rank is 64 with score of 0.20930.\r\n\r\n-I have been using vgg_16 as my base model and my improvements have come over semi_supervised learning iterations.\r\n\r\n-I have a GTX 1070 and a GTX 960\r\n\r\nFeel free to reply below.  I am thinking of a team size of between 2 and 5.",
      "votes": null
    },
    {
      "id": "128827",
      "postDate": "07/24/2016 12:53:59",
      "content": "<p>I would like to join your team. I'm trying to improve my score by synthesising training data(still trial and error).</p>\n\n<p>LB score 0.22743</p>\n\n<p>I have a 1070.</p>\n\n<p>I'm spending some time on this competition so really want to go higher on the LB.</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "I would like to join your team. I'm trying to improve my score by synthesising training data(still trial and error).\r\n\r\nLB score 0.22743\r\n\r\nI have a 1070.\r\n\r\nI'm spending some time on this competition so really want to go higher on the LB.",
      "votes": null
    },
    {
      "id": "128835",
      "postDate": "07/24/2016 14:47:46",
      "content": "<p>Seems good to me. Let's work together. Apparently I cannot email you directly because I have not earned enough Kaggle points to do so. Can you give me your email so that I can contact you?</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "Seems good to me. Let's work together. Apparently I cannot email you directly because I have not earned enough Kaggle points to do so. Can you give me your email so that I can contact you?",
      "votes": null
    },
    {
      "id": "128839",
      "postDate": "07/24/2016 16:18:06",
      "content": "<p>I attached my email address.</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "I attached my email address.",
      "votes": null
    },
    {
      "id": "128840",
      "postDate": "07/24/2016 16:24:07",
      "content": "<p>Would love to join as well</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "Would love to join as well",
      "votes": null
    },
    {
      "id": "128842",
      "postDate": "07/24/2016 16:48:39",
      "content": "<p>[quote=Nathaniel Shimoni;128840]</p>\n\n<p>Would love to join as well</p>\n\n<p>[/quote]</p>\n\n<p>Hi Nathaniel.  From your profile I see that you have submissions in other competitions, but not in this competition. Because of the nature of the competition making a team is advantageous not just because of knowledge sharing, but also because of computing power sharing.  I am thinking to join with people so that we can perform our experiments individually and then ensemble the results of the models together to produce a better model (and to try to not repeat the same work others in the team are doing). Some of us already have weeks worth of computation in models that are ready to be ensemble together.</p>\n\n<p>But maybe we can join in another competition together. Thanks for replying.</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "[quote=Nathaniel Shimoni;128840]\r\n\r\nWould love to join as well\r\n\r\n[/quote]\r\n\r\nHi Nathaniel.  From your profile I see that you have submissions in other competitions, but not in this competition. Because of the nature of the competition making a team is advantageous not just because of knowledge sharing, but also because of computing power sharing.  I am thinking to join with people so that we can perform our experiments individually and then ensemble the results of the models together to produce a better model (and to try to not repeat the same work others in the team are doing). Some of us already have weeks worth of computation in models that are ready to be ensemble together.\r\n\r\nBut maybe we can join in another competition together. Thanks for replying.",
      "votes": null
    },
    {
      "id": "128843",
      "postDate": "07/24/2016 17:03:49",
      "content": "<p>Hi Jadiel, I do have extensive work on this competition as well. even though my current score is only 0.31.</p>\n\n<p>i still have some unexplored ideas that I would like to try...</p>\n\n<p>would love to cooperate if you reconsider, and best of luck with progressing further should you choose otherwise.</p>\n\n<p>Nati</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "Hi Jadiel, I do have extensive work on this competition as well. even though my current score is only 0.31.\r\n\r\ni still have some unexplored ideas that I would like to try...\r\n\r\nwould love to cooperate if you reconsider, and best of luck with progressing further should you choose otherwise.\r\n\r\nNati",
      "votes": null
    },
    {
      "id": "128844",
      "postDate": "07/24/2016 17:09:49",
      "content": "<p>[quote=Nathaniel Shimoni;128843]</p>\n\n<p>Hi Jadiel, I do have extensive work on this competition as well. even though my current score is only 0.31.</p>\n\n<p>i still have some unexplored ideas that I would like to try...</p>\n\n<p>would love to cooperate if you reconsider, and best of luck with progressing further should you choose otherwise.</p>\n\n<p>Nati</p>\n\n<p>[/quote]</p>\n\n<p>Of course I will reconsider. Sorry that I couldn't find you in the leaderboard before. Please, reply with your email attached so that I can reach you by email.  I will also CC kAI there.</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "[quote=Nathaniel Shimoni;128843]\r\n\r\nHi Jadiel, I do have extensive work on this competition as well. even though my current score is only 0.31.\r\n\r\ni still have some unexplored ideas that I would like to try...\r\n\r\nwould love to cooperate if you reconsider, and best of luck with progressing further should you choose otherwise.\r\n\r\nNati\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n[/quote]\r\n\r\nOf course I will reconsider. Sorry that I couldn't find you in the leaderboard before. Please, reply with your email attached so that I can reach you by email.  I will also CC kAI there.",
      "votes": null
    },
    {
      "id": "128854",
      "postDate": "07/24/2016 20:12:49",
      "content": "<p>nathanie at post.bgu.ac.il</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "nathanie at post.bgu.ac.il",
      "votes": null
    },
    {
      "id": "128863",
      "postDate": "07/24/2016 23:09:28",
      "content": "<p>Hi Jadiel,</p>\n\n<p>I would love to join your team.</p>\n\n<p>I have GTX 980.</p>\n\n<p>Current LB position 72 with score 0.21515.</p>\n\n<p>I am working on additional pre-trained models and have few ideas to try.</p>\n\n<p>Maciej</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "Hi Jadiel,\r\n\r\nI would love to join your team.\r\n\r\nI have GTX 980.\r\n\r\nCurrent LB position 72 with score 0.21515.\r\n\r\nI am working on additional pre-trained models and have few ideas to try.\r\n\r\nMaciej",
      "votes": null
    },
    {
      "id": "128864",
      "postDate": "07/24/2016 23:22:39",
      "content": "<p>[quote=Maciej;128863]</p>\n\n<p>Hi Jadiel,</p>\n\n<p>I would love to join your team.</p>\n\n<p>I have GTX 980.</p>\n\n<p>Current LB position 72 with score 0.21515.</p>\n\n<p>I am working on additional pre-trained models and have few ideas to try.</p>\n\n<p>Maciej</p>\n\n<p>[/quote]</p>\n\n<p>Hi Maciej,</p>\n\n<p>Ok, let's do it. Please, respond attaching your email address so that I can email you and also add you to the team.</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "[quote=Maciej;128863]\r\n\r\nHi Jadiel,\r\n\r\nI would love to join your team.\r\n\r\nI have GTX 980.\r\n\r\nCurrent LB position 72 with score 0.21515.\r\n\r\nI am working on additional pre-trained models and have few ideas to try.\r\n\r\nMaciej\r\n\r\n[/quote]\r\n\r\nHi Maciej,\r\n\r\nOk, let's do it. Please, respond attaching your email address so that I can email you and also add you to the team.",
      "votes": null
    },
    {
      "id": "128866",
      "postDate": "07/24/2016 23:23:27",
      "content": "<p>We will be closing the team here.  But feel more than free to keep posting here if you want to use these thread to find your own partners for team mergers.</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "We will be closing the team here.  But feel more than free to keep posting here if you want to use these thread to find your own partners for team mergers.",
      "votes": null
    }
  ],
  "comments": [
    {
      "id": 128827,
      "author_name": "kenkenp",
      "author_url": "",
      "post_date": "07/24/2016 12:53:59",
      "content": "<p>I would like to join your team. I'm trying to improve my score by synthesising training data(still trial and error).</p>\n\n<p>LB score 0.22743</p>\n\n<p>I have a 1070.</p>\n\n<p>I'm spending some time on this competition so really want to go higher on the LB.</p>",
      "votes": null,
      "replies": []
    },
    {
      "id": 128835,
      "author_name": "jadielam",
      "author_url": "",
      "post_date": "07/24/2016 14:47:46",
      "content": "<p>Seems good to me. Let's work together. Apparently I cannot email you directly because I have not earned enough Kaggle points to do so. Can you give me your email so that I can contact you?</p>",
      "votes": null,
      "replies": []
    },
    {
      "id": 128839,
      "author_name": "kenkenp",
      "author_url": "",
      "post_date": "07/24/2016 16:18:06",
      "content": "<p>I attached my email address.</p>",
      "votes": null,
      "replies": []
    },
    {
      "id": 128840,
      "author_name": "interesting",
      "author_url": "",
      "post_date": "07/24/2016 16:24:07",
      "content": "<p>Would love to join as well</p>",
      "votes": null,
      "replies": []
    },
    {
      "id": 128842,
      "author_name": "jadielam",
      "author_url": "",
      "post_date": "07/24/2016 16:48:39",
      "content": "<p>[quote=Nathaniel Shimoni;128840]</p>\n\n<p>Would love to join as well</p>\n\n<p>[/quote]</p>\n\n<p>Hi Nathaniel.  From your profile I see that you have submissions in other competitions, but not in this competition. Because of the nature of the competition making a team is advantageous not just because of knowledge sharing, but also because of computing power sharing.  I am thinking to join with people so that we can perform our experiments individually and then ensemble the results of the models together to produce a better model (and to try to not repeat the same work others in the team are doing). Some of us already have weeks worth of computation in models that are ready to be ensemble together.</p>\n\n<p>But maybe we can join in another competition together. Thanks for replying.</p>",
      "votes": null,
      "replies": []
    },
    {
      "id": 128843,
      "author_name": "interesting",
      "author_url": "",
      "post_date": "07/24/2016 17:03:49",
      "content": "<p>Hi Jadiel, I do have extensive work on this competition as well. even though my current score is only 0.31.</p>\n\n<p>i still have some unexplored ideas that I would like to try...</p>\n\n<p>would love to cooperate if you reconsider, and best of luck with progressing further should you choose otherwise.</p>\n\n<p>Nati</p>",
      "votes": null,
      "replies": []
    },
    {
      "id": 128844,
      "author_name": "jadielam",
      "author_url": "",
      "post_date": "07/24/2016 17:09:49",
      "content": "<p>[quote=Nathaniel Shimoni;128843]</p>\n\n<p>Hi Jadiel, I do have extensive work on this competition as well. even though my current score is only 0.31.</p>\n\n<p>i still have some unexplored ideas that I would like to try...</p>\n\n<p>would love to cooperate if you reconsider, and best of luck with progressing further should you choose otherwise.</p>\n\n<p>Nati</p>\n\n<p>[/quote]</p>\n\n<p>Of course I will reconsider. Sorry that I couldn't find you in the leaderboard before. Please, reply with your email attached so that I can reach you by email.  I will also CC kAI there.</p>",
      "votes": null,
      "replies": []
    },
    {
      "id": 128854,
      "author_name": "interesting",
      "author_url": "",
      "post_date": "07/24/2016 20:12:49",
      "content": "<p>nathanie at post.bgu.ac.il</p>",
      "votes": null,
      "replies": []
    },
    {
      "id": 128863,
      "author_name": "maciejv",
      "author_url": "",
      "post_date": "07/24/2016 23:09:28",
      "content": "<p>Hi Jadiel,</p>\n\n<p>I would love to join your team.</p>\n\n<p>I have GTX 980.</p>\n\n<p>Current LB position 72 with score 0.21515.</p>\n\n<p>I am working on additional pre-trained models and have few ideas to try.</p>\n\n<p>Maciej</p>",
      "votes": null,
      "replies": []
    },
    {
      "id": 128864,
      "author_name": "jadielam",
      "author_url": "",
      "post_date": "07/24/2016 23:22:39",
      "content": "<p>[quote=Maciej;128863]</p>\n\n<p>Hi Jadiel,</p>\n\n<p>I would love to join your team.</p>\n\n<p>I have GTX 980.</p>\n\n<p>Current LB position 72 with score 0.21515.</p>\n\n<p>I am working on additional pre-trained models and have few ideas to try.</p>\n\n<p>Maciej</p>\n\n<p>[/quote]</p>\n\n<p>Hi Maciej,</p>\n\n<p>Ok, let's do it. Please, respond attaching your email address so that I can email you and also add you to the team.</p>",
      "votes": null,
      "replies": []
    },
    {
      "id": 128866,
      "author_name": "jadielam",
      "author_url": "",
      "post_date": "07/24/2016 23:23:27",
      "content": "<p>We will be closing the team here.  But feel more than free to keep posting here if you want to use these thread to find your own partners for team mergers.</p>",
      "votes": null,
      "replies": []
    }
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    "128826": "Hi all.  The deadline for team mergers is a day away. I am looking for people wanting to merge to form a team and try to get to the top of the public leader board.  Preferably people with similar rank, but who are using different methods or pre-trained models, so that when we ensemble the improvement is more noticeable. \r\n\r\n-My rank is 64 with score of 0.20930.\r\n\r\n-I have been using vgg_16 as my base model and my improvements have come over semi_supervised learning iterations.\r\n\r\n-I have a GTX 1070 and a GTX 960\r\n\r\nFeel free to reply below.  I am thinking of a team size of between 2 and 5.",
    "128827": "I would like to join your team. I'm trying to improve my score by synthesising training data(still trial and error).\r\n\r\nLB score 0.22743\r\n\r\nI have a 1070.\r\n\r\nI'm spending some time on this competition so really want to go higher on the LB.",
    "128835": "Seems good to me. Let's work together. Apparently I cannot email you directly because I have not earned enough Kaggle points to do so. Can you give me your email so that I can contact you?",
    "128839": "I attached my email address.",
    "128840": "Would love to join as well",
    "128842": "[quote=Nathaniel Shimoni;128840]\r\n\r\nWould love to join as well\r\n\r\n[/quote]\r\n\r\nHi Nathaniel.  From your profile I see that you have submissions in other competitions, but not in this competition. Because of the nature of the competition making a team is advantageous not just because of knowledge sharing, but also because of computing power sharing.  I am thinking to join with people so that we can perform our experiments individually and then ensemble the results of the models together to produce a better model (and to try to not repeat the same work others in the team are doing). Some of us already have weeks worth of computation in models that are ready to be ensemble together.\r\n\r\nBut maybe we can join in another competition together. Thanks for replying.",
    "128843": "Hi Jadiel, I do have extensive work on this competition as well. even though my current score is only 0.31.\r\n\r\ni still have some unexplored ideas that I would like to try...\r\n\r\nwould love to cooperate if you reconsider, and best of luck with progressing further should you choose otherwise.\r\n\r\nNati",
    "128844": "[quote=Nathaniel Shimoni;128843]\r\n\r\nHi Jadiel, I do have extensive work on this competition as well. even though my current score is only 0.31.\r\n\r\ni still have some unexplored ideas that I would like to try...\r\n\r\nwould love to cooperate if you reconsider, and best of luck with progressing further should you choose otherwise.\r\n\r\nNati\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n[/quote]\r\n\r\nOf course I will reconsider. Sorry that I couldn't find you in the leaderboard before. Please, reply with your email attached so that I can reach you by email.  I will also CC kAI there.",
    "128854": "nathanie at post.bgu.ac.il",
    "128863": "Hi Jadiel,\r\n\r\nI would love to join your team.\r\n\r\nI have GTX 980.\r\n\r\nCurrent LB position 72 with score 0.21515.\r\n\r\nI am working on additional pre-trained models and have few ideas to try.\r\n\r\nMaciej",
    "128864": "[quote=Maciej;128863]\r\n\r\nHi Jadiel,\r\n\r\nI would love to join your team.\r\n\r\nI have GTX 980.\r\n\r\nCurrent LB position 72 with score 0.21515.\r\n\r\nI am working on additional pre-trained models and have few ideas to try.\r\n\r\nMaciej\r\n\r\n[/quote]\r\n\r\nHi Maciej,\r\n\r\nOk, let's do it. Please, respond attaching your email address so that I can email you and also add you to the team.",
    "128866": "We will be closing the team here.  But feel more than free to keep posting here if you want to use these thread to find your own partners for team mergers."
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