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  "id": 303868,
  "title": "Help needed for understanding confidence score",
  "url": "/competitions/tensorflow-great-barrier-reef/discussion/303868",
  "author_name": "Harsh",
  "post_date": "2022-01-29T19:16:43.624000",
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  "content": "<p>The competition evaluation states that <code>confidence</code> is also needed could someone help me understand what is confidence and how is it being calculated ?</p>",
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      "postDate": "2022-01-30T03:01:38.800Z",
      "content": "<p>The <code>confidence</code> score is the predicted probability that your predicted bounding box actually contains a starfish. The confidence score is a number between 0 and 1. It is used during the computation of the metric. The ground truths will be paired with your most confident predictions first to determine FP, TP, FN.</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "The `confidence` score is the predicted probability that your predicted bounding box actually contains a starfish. The confidence score is a number between 0 and 1. It is used during the computation of the metric. The ground truths will be paired with your most confident predictions first to determine FP, TP, FN.",
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      "postDate": "2022-01-29T19:16:43.623Z",
      "content": "<p>The competition evaluation states that <code>confidence</code> is also needed could someone help me understand what is confidence and how is it being calculated ?</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "The competition evaluation states that ```confidence ``` is also needed could someone help me understand what is confidence and how is it being calculated ?\n\n",
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      "author_name": "Chris Deotte",
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      "post_date": "2022-01-30T03:01:38.800000",
      "content": "<p>The <code>confidence</code> score is the predicted probability that your predicted bounding box actually contains a starfish. The confidence score is a number between 0 and 1. It is used during the computation of the metric. The ground truths will be paired with your most confident predictions first to determine FP, TP, FN.</p>",
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    "1668786": "The `confidence` score is the predicted probability that your predicted bounding box actually contains a starfish. The confidence score is a number between 0 and 1. It is used during the computation of the metric. The ground truths will be paired with your most confident predictions first to determine FP, TP, FN.",
    "1668592": "The competition evaluation states that ```confidence ``` is also needed could someone help me understand what is confidence and how is it being calculated ?\n\n",
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