{
  "id": 57496,
  "title": "Error running HDBSCAN",
  "url": "/competitions/trackml-particle-identification/discussion/57496",
  "author_name": "Henrique Mello",
  "post_date": "2018-05-24T13:06:04.505000",
  "votes": 3,
  "comment_count": 0,
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  "content": "<p>Hi everyone! I'm going into the error <code>descriptor 'get_metric' requires a 'hdbscan.dist_metrics.DistanceMetric' object but received a 'str'</code> when running hdbscan. Some notebooks run fine while others throw this error. </p>\n\n<p>Does anyone have an idea what might be causing this and how to solve it? The solutions given in hdbscan github has to do with updating packages using pip and as far as I know this is not possible in Kaggle.</p>",
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      "content": "<p>Hi everyone! I'm going into the error <code>descriptor 'get_metric' requires a 'hdbscan.dist_metrics.DistanceMetric' object but received a 'str'</code> when running hdbscan. Some notebooks run fine while others throw this error. </p>\n\n<p>Does anyone have an idea what might be causing this and how to solve it? The solutions given in hdbscan github has to do with updating packages using pip and as far as I know this is not possible in Kaggle.</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "Hi everyone! I'm going into the error `descriptor 'get_metric' requires a 'hdbscan.dist_metrics.DistanceMetric' object but received a 'str'` when running hdbscan. Some notebooks run fine while others throw this error. \n\nDoes anyone have an idea what might be causing this and how to solve it? The solutions given in hdbscan github has to do with updating packages using pip and as far as I know this is not possible in Kaggle.",
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    "333132": "Hi everyone! I'm going into the error `descriptor 'get_metric' requires a 'hdbscan.dist_metrics.DistanceMetric' object but received a 'str'` when running hdbscan. Some notebooks run fine while others throw this error. \n\nDoes anyone have an idea what might be causing this and how to solve it? The solutions given in hdbscan github has to do with updating packages using pip and as far as I know this is not possible in Kaggle."
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