{
  "id": 662972,
  "title": "Prize pool DOUBLED! 😱",
  "url": "/competitions/vesuvius-challenge-surface-detection/discussion/662972",
  "author_name": "",
  "post_date": "2025-12-15T17:25:08.680586100Z",
  "votes": 42,
  "comment_count": 8,
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  "content": "<p>Thanks to our generous donors, we are happy to announce that we are <strong>DOUBLING</strong> the prize pool to a total amount of <strong>$ 200,000</strong> !</p>\n<p>This is the new prize ladder:</p>\n<pre><code>1st place: $60,000\n2nd place: $40,000\n3rd place: $30,000\n4th place: $20,000\n5th place: $15,000\n6th place: $10,000\n7th place: $10,000\n8th place: $5,000\n9th place: $5,000\n10th place: $5,000\n</code></pre>\n<p>We are also currently working full time to produce an updated version of the dataset that fixes many topological issues. We'll share it as soon as possible! Please bear with us in this journey and help us read these scrolls! 🙏</p>",
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    {
      "id": "3377088",
      "postDate": "12/15/2025 17:25:08",
      "content": "<p>Thanks to our generous donors, we are happy to announce that we are <strong>DOUBLING</strong> the prize pool to a total amount of <strong>$ 200,000</strong> !</p>\n<p>This is the new prize ladder:</p>\n<pre><code>1st place: $60,000\n2nd place: $40,000\n3rd place: $30,000\n4th place: $20,000\n5th place: $15,000\n6th place: $10,000\n7th place: $10,000\n8th place: $5,000\n9th place: $5,000\n10th place: $5,000\n</code></pre>\n<p>We are also currently working full time to produce an updated version of the dataset that fixes many topological issues. We'll share it as soon as possible! Please bear with us in this journey and help us read these scrolls! 🙏</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "Thanks to our generous donors, we are happy to announce that we are **DOUBLING** the prize pool to a total amount of **$ 200,000** !\n\nThis is the new prize ladder:\n```python\n1st place: $60,000\n2nd place: $40,000\n3rd place: $30,000\n4th place: $20,000\n5th place: $15,000\n6th place: $10,000\n7th place: $10,000\n8th place: $5,000\n9th place: $5,000\n10th place: $5,000\n```\n\nWe are also currently working full time to produce an updated version of the dataset that fixes many topological issues. We'll share it as soon as possible! Please bear with us in this journey and help us read these scrolls! 🙏",
      "votes": null
    },
    {
      "id": "3377407",
      "postDate": "12/16/2025 09:04:17",
      "content": "<p>Thanks, <a href=\"https://www.kaggle.com/giorgioangelotti\" target=\"_blank\">@giorgioangelotti</a> </p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "Thanks, @giorgioangelotti",
      "votes": null
    },
    {
      "id": "3377958",
      "postDate": "12/17/2025 08:25:51",
      "content": "<p>Is the update related to training or testing dataset or both? If also for testing, do we need to resubmit all predisposition again? </p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "Is the update related to training or testing dataset or both? If also for testing, do we need to resubmit all predisposition again?",
      "votes": null
    },
    {
      "id": "3377959",
      "postDate": "12/17/2025 08:27:00",
      "content": "<p>Also this is great upgrade with prize pool, please update it also in leader board, since it still indicates only top 5 places… </p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "Also this is great upgrade with prize pool, please update it also in leader board, since it still indicates only top 5 places...",
      "votes": null
    },
    {
      "id": "3378177",
      "postDate": "12/17/2025 17:18:23",
      "content": "<p>we are going to update also the test, it's the same data but with some errors fixed in some of the samples. regarding resubmission, <a href=\"https://www.kaggle.com/sohier\" target=\"_blank\">@sohier</a> knows better</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "we are going to update also the test, it's the same data but with some errors fixed in some of the samples. regarding resubmission, @sohier knows better",
      "votes": null
    },
    {
      "id": "3378196",
      "postDate": "12/17/2025 18:11:48",
      "content": "<p>Also if change data/announcements/metric will all actual LB scores reset too?\nSince this could be quite sensitive topic for all participants… </p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "Also if change data/announcements/metric will all actual LB scores reset too?\nSince this could be quite sensitive topic for all participants...",
      "votes": null
    },
    {
      "id": "3379191",
      "postDate": "12/19/2025 10:41:45",
      "content": "<p>wowowowoowowow.\nThis is probably going to boost the final score a lot!</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "wowowowoowowow.\nThis is probably going to boost the final score a lot!",
      "votes": null
    },
    {
      "id": "3379245",
      "postDate": "12/19/2025 12:38:31",
      "content": "<p>This might be unpopular opinion, but I'd rather invest these additional proceeds into extra GPU power (L4 or something), at least during the inference  - the current setup is somewhat constrained :)</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "This might be unpopular opinion, but I'd rather invest these additional proceeds into extra GPU power (L4 or something), at least during the inference  - the current setup is somewhat constrained :)",
      "votes": null
    },
    {
      "id": "3379597",
      "postDate": "12/20/2025 08:06:40",
      "content": "<p>Agree,somewhat like in the math competition going on.</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "Agree,somewhat like in the math competition going on.",
      "votes": null
    }
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  "comments": [
    {
      "id": 3377407,
      "author_name": "agenlu",
      "author_url": "",
      "post_date": "12/16/2025 09:04:17",
      "content": "<p>Thanks, <a href=\"https://www.kaggle.com/giorgioangelotti\" target=\"_blank\">@giorgioangelotti</a> </p>",
      "votes": null,
      "replies": []
    },
    {
      "id": 3377958,
      "author_name": "jirkaborovec",
      "author_url": "",
      "post_date": "12/17/2025 08:25:51",
      "content": "<p>Is the update related to training or testing dataset or both? If also for testing, do we need to resubmit all predisposition again? </p>",
      "votes": null,
      "replies": [
        {
          "id": 3378177,
          "author_name": "giorgioangelotti",
          "author_url": "",
          "post_date": "12/17/2025 17:18:23",
          "content": "<p>we are going to update also the test, it's the same data but with some errors fixed in some of the samples. regarding resubmission, <a href=\"https://www.kaggle.com/sohier\" target=\"_blank\">@sohier</a> knows better</p>",
          "votes": null,
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            {
              "id": 3378196,
              "author_name": "jirkaborovec",
              "author_url": "",
              "post_date": "12/17/2025 18:11:48",
              "content": "<p>Also if change data/announcements/metric will all actual LB scores reset too?\nSince this could be quite sensitive topic for all participants… </p>",
              "votes": null,
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      "id": 3377959,
      "author_name": "jirkaborovec",
      "author_url": "",
      "post_date": "12/17/2025 08:27:00",
      "content": "<p>Also this is great upgrade with prize pool, please update it also in leader board, since it still indicates only top 5 places… </p>",
      "votes": null,
      "replies": []
    },
    {
      "id": 3379191,
      "author_name": "cjpal18",
      "author_url": "",
      "post_date": "12/19/2025 10:41:45",
      "content": "<p>wowowowoowowow.\nThis is probably going to boost the final score a lot!</p>",
      "votes": null,
      "replies": []
    },
    {
      "id": 3379245,
      "author_name": "victorshlepov",
      "author_url": "",
      "post_date": "12/19/2025 12:38:31",
      "content": "<p>This might be unpopular opinion, but I'd rather invest these additional proceeds into extra GPU power (L4 or something), at least during the inference  - the current setup is somewhat constrained :)</p>",
      "votes": null,
      "replies": [
        {
          "id": 3379597,
          "author_name": "choudharymanas",
          "author_url": "",
          "post_date": "12/20/2025 08:06:40",
          "content": "<p>Agree,somewhat like in the math competition going on.</p>",
          "votes": null,
          "replies": []
        }
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    "3377088": "Thanks to our generous donors, we are happy to announce that we are **DOUBLING** the prize pool to a total amount of **$ 200,000** !\n\nThis is the new prize ladder:\n```python\n1st place: $60,000\n2nd place: $40,000\n3rd place: $30,000\n4th place: $20,000\n5th place: $15,000\n6th place: $10,000\n7th place: $10,000\n8th place: $5,000\n9th place: $5,000\n10th place: $5,000\n```\n\nWe are also currently working full time to produce an updated version of the dataset that fixes many topological issues. We'll share it as soon as possible! Please bear with us in this journey and help us read these scrolls! 🙏",
    "3377407": "Thanks, @giorgioangelotti",
    "3377958": "Is the update related to training or testing dataset or both? If also for testing, do we need to resubmit all predisposition again?",
    "3377959": "Also this is great upgrade with prize pool, please update it also in leader board, since it still indicates only top 5 places...",
    "3378177": "we are going to update also the test, it's the same data but with some errors fixed in some of the samples. regarding resubmission, @sohier knows better",
    "3378196": "Also if change data/announcements/metric will all actual LB scores reset too?\nSince this could be quite sensitive topic for all participants...",
    "3379191": "wowowowoowowow.\nThis is probably going to boost the final score a lot!",
    "3379245": "This might be unpopular opinion, but I'd rather invest these additional proceeds into extra GPU power (L4 or something), at least during the inference  - the current setup is somewhat constrained :)",
    "3379597": "Agree,somewhat like in the math competition going on."
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