{
  "id": 63246,
  "title": "At least two new competitions GM :)",
  "url": "/competitions/trackml-particle-identification/discussion/63246",
  "author_name": "Serigne ",
  "post_date": "2018-08-14T00:27:39.473000",
  "votes": 19,
  "comment_count": 22,
  "views": 0,
  "content": "<p>Congrats to all top teams particularly Top Quarks team for their impressive lead. </p>\n\n<p>Congrats to <a href=\"https://www.kaggle.com/cpmpml\">CPMP</a> and <a href=\"https://www.kaggle.com/ckomaki\">Komaki</a> for their new competitions  Grandmaster Status. </p>\n\n<p>Note that CPMP is the second kaggler to be GM in 2 differents categories (after <a href=\"https://www.kaggle.com/sudalairajkumar\">SRK</a> )\nand the first in both competitions and discussions.</p>\n\n<p>Komaki will likely enter to top 4 in kaggle global ranking  </p>",
  "messages": [
    {
      "id": 369910,
      "postDate": "2018-08-14T00:27:39.473Z",
      "content": "<p>Congrats to all top teams particularly Top Quarks team for their impressive lead. </p>\n\n<p>Congrats to <a href=\"https://www.kaggle.com/cpmpml\">CPMP</a> and <a href=\"https://www.kaggle.com/ckomaki\">Komaki</a> for their new competitions  Grandmaster Status. </p>\n\n<p>Note that CPMP is the second kaggler to be GM in 2 differents categories (after <a href=\"https://www.kaggle.com/sudalairajkumar\">SRK</a> )\nand the first in both competitions and discussions.</p>\n\n<p>Komaki will likely enter to top 4 in kaggle global ranking  </p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "Congrats to all top teams particularly Top Quarks team for their impressive lead. \n\nCongrats to [CPMP][1] and [Komaki][2] for their new competitions  Grandmaster Status. \n\nNote that CPMP is the second kaggler to be GM in 2 differents categories (after [SRK][3] )\nand the first in both competitions and discussions.\n\nKomaki will likely enter to top 4 in kaggle global ranking  \n\n\n\n\n  [1]: https://www.kaggle.com/cpmpml\n  [2]: https://www.kaggle.com/ckomaki\n  [3]: https://www.kaggle.com/sudalairajkumar",
      "votes": 19
    },
    {
      "id": 370323,
      "postDate": "2018-08-14T16:09:37.037Z",
      "content": "<p>Congrats!There is no easy competition here,so grandmaster title means hard work after hard work,tough competition after tough competition.</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "Congrats!There is no easy competition here,so grandmaster title means hard work after hard work,tough competition after tough competition.",
      "votes": 3,
      "replies": [
        {
          "id": 370353,
          "postDate": "2018-08-14T17:21:04.103Z",
          "content": "<p>Completely agree...</p>\n\n<p>And even if one think a particular competition is \"easy\", the thing is there are more and more brilliant kagglers now.  It clearly requires hard work, discipline and out of the box thinking to stay in the golden area at the end of competition. </p>",
          "rawMarkdown": "Completely agree...\n\nAnd even if one think a particular competition is \"easy\", the thing is there are more and more brilliant kagglers now.  It clearly requires hard work, discipline and out of the box thinking to stay in the golden area at the end of competition. ",
          "votes": 1
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": 369946,
      "postDate": "2018-08-14T01:16:23.150Z",
      "content": "<p>wow, congrats CPMP and Komaki !</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "wow, congrats CPMP and Komaki !",
      "votes": 3
    },
    {
      "id": 370176,
      "postDate": "2018-08-14T11:52:34.513Z",
      "content": "<p>May I ask something here? Giba has many more trophies (I say, a lot lot more) than bestfitting. Why is he ranked 3rd globally while bestfitting ranked 1st? To me, even if bestfitting won more recent competitions, it does not mean Giba should be ranked lower, because of tons of gold medals he earned from the past. Does the decay method affect too much and it erases all (far) past achievements of users?</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "May I ask something here? Giba has many more trophies (I say, a lot lot more) than bestfitting. Why is he ranked 3rd globally while bestfitting ranked 1st? To me, even if bestfitting won more recent competitions, it does not mean Giba should be ranked lower, because of tons of gold medals he earned from the past. Does the decay method affect too much and it erases all (far) past achievements of users?",
      "votes": 1,
      "replies": [
        {
          "id": 370179,
          "postDate": "2018-08-14T12:01:33.080Z",
          "content": "<p>He is first in gold medals collected :)</p>\n\n<p>In my view, there should be a window for newer players to get past older ones. Also many of <a href=\"/bestfitting\">@bestfitting</a> 's wins were solo (which makes them more difficult) </p>\n\n<p>Take Roger Federer for example  - he has won the most grand slams in tennis (male) history . He may not be winning as much as of late - hence he is not currently ranked first , but he is probably the greatest of all time. </p>\n\n<p>I think <a href=\"/bestfitting\">@bestfitting</a> has the most gold medals collected in the last 2 years (since his joined) than any other kaggler. </p>",
          "rawMarkdown": "He is first in gold medals collected :)\n\nIn my view, there should be a window for newer players to get past older ones. Also many of @bestfitting 's wins were solo (which makes them more difficult) \n\nTake Roger Federer for example  - he has won the most grand slams in tennis (male) history . He may not be winning as much as of late - hence he is not currently ranked first , but he is probably the greatest of all time. \n\nI think @bestfitting has the most gold medals collected in the last 2 years (since his joined) than any other kaggler. ",
          "votes": 4
        },
        {
          "id": 370184,
          "postDate": "2018-08-14T12:13:49.400Z",
          "content": "<p>Thanks for your reply. Another question, CPMP just got the Grandmaster status by winning 5 golds. But the criteria for this Grandmaster are (in the ranking system regulation page) 1) winning 5 golds and, 2) winning 1 solo gold. Does that mean one has only need to achieve  {1) OR 2)}, not {1) AND 2)}, to achieve Grandmaster, is that right?</p>",
          "rawMarkdown": "Thanks for your reply. Another question, CPMP just got the Grandmaster status by winning 5 golds. But the criteria for this Grandmaster are (in the ranking system regulation page) 1) winning 5 golds and, 2) winning 1 solo gold. Does that mean one has only need to achieve  {1) OR 2)}, not {1) AND 2)}, to achieve Grandmaster, is that right?",
          "votes": 1
        },
        {
          "id": 370185,
          "postDate": "2018-08-14T12:15:43.220Z",
          "content": "<p>You need 5 Golds, at least one of which needs be solo.  So both conditions need to apply to get GM</p>",
          "rawMarkdown": "You need 5 Golds, at least one of which needs be solo.  So both conditions need to apply to get GM"
        },
        {
          "id": 370188,
          "postDate": "2018-08-14T12:17:14.940Z",
          "content": "<p>Oops. I see. Stupid question. (I always thought \"Solo Gold\" is being 1st place Gold). So sorry.</p>",
          "rawMarkdown": "Oops. I see. Stupid question. (I always thought \"Solo Gold\" is being 1st place Gold). So sorry."
        },
        {
          "id": 370194,
          "postDate": "2018-08-14T12:22:38.420Z",
          "content": "<p>&gt; Giba has many more trophies (I say, a lot lot more) than bestfitting. Why is he ranked 3rd globally while bestfitting ranked 1st?</p>\n\n<p>There is a time based decay on points you get.  The decay does not erase old wins entirely, but recent wins weight way more than old ones.  It so happens that bestfitting did a bit better on average than giba (or KazAnova ;) ) recently.</p>\n\n<p>It is also because of that decay that I am ranked better than people who have way more gold medals than me: mine are more recent.</p>",
          "rawMarkdown": "&gt; Giba has many more trophies (I say, a lot lot more) than bestfitting. Why is he ranked 3rd globally while bestfitting ranked 1st?\n\nThere is a time based decay on points you get.  The decay does not erase old wins entirely, but recent wins weight way more than old ones.  It so happens that bestfitting did a bit better on average than giba (or KazAnova ;) ) recently.\n\nIt is also because of that decay that I am ranked better than people who have way more gold medals than me: mine are more recent.",
          "votes": 1
        },
        {
          "id": 370203,
          "postDate": "2018-08-14T12:32:28.023Z",
          "content": "<p>Having said that , a kaggle Hall Of Fame would have been nice. There are many kagglers that have stopped playing and dropped in ranks, but definately deserve to be \"found\" somewhere . At the very least people can click on their profiles and see their contributions in discussions/kernels. </p>",
          "rawMarkdown": "Having said that , a kaggle Hall Of Fame would have been nice. There are many kagglers that have stopped playing and dropped in ranks, but definately deserve to be \"found\" somewhere . At the very least people can click on their profiles and see their contributions in discussions/kernels. ",
          "votes": 2
        },
        {
          "id": 370209,
          "postDate": "2018-08-14T12:44:46.113Z",
          "content": "<p>@Kazanobva, great idea.  I once heard of a guy who won all the 4 competitions he ever entered then disappeared.  Not sure anyone did as well ever.</p>",
          "rawMarkdown": "@Kazanobva, great idea.  I once heard of a guy who won all the 4 competitions he ever entered then disappeared.  Not sure anyone did as well ever.",
          "votes": 1
        },
        {
          "id": 370213,
          "postDate": "2018-08-14T12:50:03.817Z",
          "content": "<p>yeah - it is him! </p>\n\n<p><a href=\"https://www.kaggle.com/chaiml\">https://www.kaggle.com/chaiml</a></p>\n\n<p>Edit  - why hyperlink is not working... ?</p>",
          "rawMarkdown": "yeah - it is him! \n\nhttps://www.kaggle.com/chaiml\n\nEdit  - why hyperlink is not working... ?",
          "votes": 1
        },
        {
          "id": 370220,
          "postDate": "2018-08-14T13:07:25.340Z",
          "rawMarkdown": "",
          "isDeleted": true
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": 370128,
      "postDate": "2018-08-14T10:24:21.250Z",
      "content": "<p>This is huge!\nCongrats @cpmpl and <a href=\"/ckomaki\">@ckomaki</a>.</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "This is huge!\nCongrats @cpmpl and @ckomaki.",
      "votes": 1
    },
    {
      "id": 370023,
      "postDate": "2018-08-14T05:26:53.550Z",
      "content": "<p>Wow congrats @CPMP, I did not realize about the new Grandmaster status.</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "Wow congrats @CPMP, I did not realize about the new Grandmaster status.",
      "votes": 1
    },
    {
      "id": 369980,
      "postDate": "2018-08-14T03:27:12.397Z",
      "content": "<p>Congrats CPMP and Komaki</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "Congrats CPMP and Komaki",
      "votes": 1
    },
    {
      "id": 369956,
      "postDate": "2018-08-14T01:50:33.403Z",
      "content": "<p>Congratulations! Awesome achievement!!</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "Congratulations! Awesome achievement!!",
      "votes": 2
    },
    {
      "id": 369918,
      "postDate": "2018-08-14T00:37:05.420Z",
      "content": "<p>yes , congrats . well-deserved.</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "yes , congrats . well-deserved.",
      "votes": 2
    },
    {
      "id": 370198,
      "postDate": "2018-08-14T12:26:49.390Z",
      "content": "<p>In my opinion, Kaggle should invent one more ranking status that is higher than Grandmaster, such as \"SuperGrandmaster\" or something like that. And the criteria is simple: winning one 1st place solo. Do you see this idea is good? This status should be the extreme hardest in Kaggle, and therefore, extremely prestigious.</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "In my opinion, Kaggle should invent one more ranking status that is higher than Grandmaster, such as \"SuperGrandmaster\" or something like that. And the criteria is simple: winning one 1st place solo. Do you see this idea is good? This status should be the extreme hardest in Kaggle, and therefore, extremely prestigious.",
      "replies": [
        {
          "id": 370202,
          "postDate": "2018-08-14T12:30:40.227Z",
          "content": "<p>I think you're right, 1st solo is really really hard to get.</p>",
          "rawMarkdown": "I think you're right, 1st solo is really really hard to get."
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": 369912,
      "postDate": "2018-08-14T00:29:54.160Z",
      "content": "<p>Thank you!</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "Thank you!",
      "votes": 3
    },
    {
      "id": 370103,
      "postDate": "2018-08-14T09:09:33.043Z",
      "content": "<p>Thanks ヽ(ﾟ∀ﾟ)ﾉ  </p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "Thanks ヽ(ﾟ∀ﾟ)ﾉ  ",
      "votes": 1
    }
  ],
  "comments": [
    {
      "id": 370323,
      "author_name": "bestfitting",
      "author_url": "",
      "post_date": "2018-08-14T16:09:37.037000",
      "content": "<p>Congrats!There is no easy competition here,so grandmaster title means hard work after hard work,tough competition after tough competition.</p>",
      "votes": 3,
      "replies": [
        {
          "id": 370353,
          "author_name": "Serigne ",
          "author_url": "",
          "post_date": "2018-08-14T17:21:04.103000",
          "content": "<p>Completely agree...</p>\n\n<p>And even if one think a particular competition is \"easy\", the thing is there are more and more brilliant kagglers now.  It clearly requires hard work, discipline and out of the box thinking to stay in the golden area at the end of competition. </p>",
          "votes": 1,
          "replies": []
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": 369946,
      "author_name": "Giba",
      "author_url": "",
      "post_date": "2018-08-14T01:16:23.150000",
      "content": "<p>wow, congrats CPMP and Komaki !</p>",
      "votes": 3,
      "replies": []
    },
    {
      "id": 370176,
      "author_name": "Kha Vo",
      "author_url": "",
      "post_date": "2018-08-14T11:52:34.513000",
      "content": "<p>May I ask something here? Giba has many more trophies (I say, a lot lot more) than bestfitting. Why is he ranked 3rd globally while bestfitting ranked 1st? To me, even if bestfitting won more recent competitions, it does not mean Giba should be ranked lower, because of tons of gold medals he earned from the past. Does the decay method affect too much and it erases all (far) past achievements of users?</p>",
      "votes": 1,
      "replies": [
        {
          "id": 370179,
          "author_name": "Μαριος Μιχαηλιδης KazAnova",
          "author_url": "",
          "post_date": "2018-08-14T12:01:33.080000",
          "content": "<p>He is first in gold medals collected :)</p>\n\n<p>In my view, there should be a window for newer players to get past older ones. Also many of <a href=\"/bestfitting\">@bestfitting</a> 's wins were solo (which makes them more difficult) </p>\n\n<p>Take Roger Federer for example  - he has won the most grand slams in tennis (male) history . He may not be winning as much as of late - hence he is not currently ranked first , but he is probably the greatest of all time. </p>\n\n<p>I think <a href=\"/bestfitting\">@bestfitting</a> has the most gold medals collected in the last 2 years (since his joined) than any other kaggler. </p>",
          "votes": 4,
          "replies": []
        },
        {
          "id": 370184,
          "author_name": "Kha Vo",
          "author_url": "",
          "post_date": "2018-08-14T12:13:49.400000",
          "content": "<p>Thanks for your reply. Another question, CPMP just got the Grandmaster status by winning 5 golds. But the criteria for this Grandmaster are (in the ranking system regulation page) 1) winning 5 golds and, 2) winning 1 solo gold. Does that mean one has only need to achieve  {1) OR 2)}, not {1) AND 2)}, to achieve Grandmaster, is that right?</p>",
          "votes": 1,
          "replies": []
        },
        {
          "id": 370185,
          "author_name": "Μαριος Μιχαηλιδης KazAnova",
          "author_url": "",
          "post_date": "2018-08-14T12:15:43.220000",
          "content": "<p>You need 5 Golds, at least one of which needs be solo.  So both conditions need to apply to get GM</p>",
          "votes": 0,
          "replies": []
        },
        {
          "id": 370188,
          "author_name": "Kha Vo",
          "author_url": "",
          "post_date": "2018-08-14T12:17:14.940000",
          "content": "<p>Oops. I see. Stupid question. (I always thought \"Solo Gold\" is being 1st place Gold). So sorry.</p>",
          "votes": 0,
          "replies": []
        },
        {
          "id": 370194,
          "author_name": "CPMP",
          "author_url": "",
          "post_date": "2018-08-14T12:22:38.420000",
          "content": "<p>&gt; Giba has many more trophies (I say, a lot lot more) than bestfitting. Why is he ranked 3rd globally while bestfitting ranked 1st?</p>\n\n<p>There is a time based decay on points you get.  The decay does not erase old wins entirely, but recent wins weight way more than old ones.  It so happens that bestfitting did a bit better on average than giba (or KazAnova ;) ) recently.</p>\n\n<p>It is also because of that decay that I am ranked better than people who have way more gold medals than me: mine are more recent.</p>",
          "votes": 1,
          "replies": []
        },
        {
          "id": 370203,
          "author_name": "Μαριος Μιχαηλιδης KazAnova",
          "author_url": "",
          "post_date": "2018-08-14T12:32:28.023000",
          "content": "<p>Having said that , a kaggle Hall Of Fame would have been nice. There are many kagglers that have stopped playing and dropped in ranks, but definately deserve to be \"found\" somewhere . At the very least people can click on their profiles and see their contributions in discussions/kernels. </p>",
          "votes": 2,
          "replies": []
        },
        {
          "id": 370209,
          "author_name": "CPMP",
          "author_url": "",
          "post_date": "2018-08-14T12:44:46.113000",
          "content": "<p>@Kazanobva, great idea.  I once heard of a guy who won all the 4 competitions he ever entered then disappeared.  Not sure anyone did as well ever.</p>",
          "votes": 1,
          "replies": []
        },
        {
          "id": 370213,
          "author_name": "Μαριος Μιχαηλιδης KazAnova",
          "author_url": "",
          "post_date": "2018-08-14T12:50:03.817000",
          "content": "<p>yeah - it is him! </p>\n\n<p><a href=\"https://www.kaggle.com/chaiml\">https://www.kaggle.com/chaiml</a></p>\n\n<p>Edit  - why hyperlink is not working... ?</p>",
          "votes": 1,
          "replies": []
        },
        {
          "id": 370220,
          "author_name": "",
          "author_url": "",
          "post_date": "2018-08-14T13:07:25.340000",
          "content": "",
          "votes": 0,
          "replies": []
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": 370128,
      "author_name": "Amit Kumar Jaiswal",
      "author_url": "",
      "post_date": "2018-08-14T10:24:21.250000",
      "content": "<p>This is huge!\nCongrats @cpmpl and <a href=\"/ckomaki\">@ckomaki</a>.</p>",
      "votes": 1,
      "replies": []
    },
    {
      "id": 370023,
      "author_name": "YaGana Sheriff-Hussaini",
      "author_url": "",
      "post_date": "2018-08-14T05:26:53.550000",
      "content": "<p>Wow congrats @CPMP, I did not realize about the new Grandmaster status.</p>",
      "votes": 1,
      "replies": []
    },
    {
      "id": 369980,
      "author_name": "Samrat Pandiri",
      "author_url": "",
      "post_date": "2018-08-14T03:27:12.397000",
      "content": "<p>Congrats CPMP and Komaki</p>",
      "votes": 1,
      "replies": []
    },
    {
      "id": 369956,
      "author_name": "Shai",
      "author_url": "",
      "post_date": "2018-08-14T01:50:33.403000",
      "content": "<p>Congratulations! Awesome achievement!!</p>",
      "votes": 2,
      "replies": []
    },
    {
      "id": 369918,
      "author_name": "Μαριος Μιχαηλιδης KazAnova",
      "author_url": "",
      "post_date": "2018-08-14T00:37:05.420000",
      "content": "<p>yes , congrats . well-deserved.</p>",
      "votes": 2,
      "replies": []
    },
    {
      "id": 370198,
      "author_name": "Kha Vo",
      "author_url": "",
      "post_date": "2018-08-14T12:26:49.390000",
      "content": "<p>In my opinion, Kaggle should invent one more ranking status that is higher than Grandmaster, such as \"SuperGrandmaster\" or something like that. And the criteria is simple: winning one 1st place solo. Do you see this idea is good? This status should be the extreme hardest in Kaggle, and therefore, extremely prestigious.</p>",
      "votes": 0,
      "replies": [
        {
          "id": 370202,
          "author_name": "CPMP",
          "author_url": "",
          "post_date": "2018-08-14T12:30:40.227000",
          "content": "<p>I think you're right, 1st solo is really really hard to get.</p>",
          "votes": 0,
          "replies": []
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": 369912,
      "author_name": "CPMP",
      "author_url": "",
      "post_date": "2018-08-14T00:29:54.160000",
      "content": "<p>Thank you!</p>",
      "votes": 3,
      "replies": []
    },
    {
      "id": 370103,
      "author_name": "Komaki",
      "author_url": "",
      "post_date": "2018-08-14T09:09:33.043000",
      "content": "<p>Thanks ヽ(ﾟ∀ﾟ)ﾉ  </p>",
      "votes": 1,
      "replies": []
    }
  ],
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    "369910": "Congrats to all top teams particularly Top Quarks team for their impressive lead. \n\nCongrats to [CPMP][1] and [Komaki][2] for their new competitions  Grandmaster Status. \n\nNote that CPMP is the second kaggler to be GM in 2 differents categories (after [SRK][3] )\nand the first in both competitions and discussions.\n\nKomaki will likely enter to top 4 in kaggle global ranking  \n\n\n\n\n  [1]: https://www.kaggle.com/cpmpml\n  [2]: https://www.kaggle.com/ckomaki\n  [3]: https://www.kaggle.com/sudalairajkumar",
    "370323": "Congrats!There is no easy competition here,so grandmaster title means hard work after hard work,tough competition after tough competition.",
    "369946": "wow, congrats CPMP and Komaki !",
    "370176": "May I ask something here? Giba has many more trophies (I say, a lot lot more) than bestfitting. Why is he ranked 3rd globally while bestfitting ranked 1st? To me, even if bestfitting won more recent competitions, it does not mean Giba should be ranked lower, because of tons of gold medals he earned from the past. Does the decay method affect too much and it erases all (far) past achievements of users?",
    "370128": "This is huge!\nCongrats @cpmpl and @ckomaki.",
    "370023": "Wow congrats @CPMP, I did not realize about the new Grandmaster status.",
    "369980": "Congrats CPMP and Komaki",
    "369956": "Congratulations! Awesome achievement!!",
    "369918": "yes , congrats . well-deserved.",
    "370198": "In my opinion, Kaggle should invent one more ranking status that is higher than Grandmaster, such as \"SuperGrandmaster\" or something like that. And the criteria is simple: winning one 1st place solo. Do you see this idea is good? This status should be the extreme hardest in Kaggle, and therefore, extremely prestigious.",
    "369912": "Thank you!",
    "370103": "Thanks ヽ(ﾟ∀ﾟ)ﾉ  "
  }
}