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May 4th, 2010

Mid-Contest Analysis

Last night, while many of you were coming up with new strategies for approaching this contest, Ned was busy looking at past submissions. Take a look at his thoughts in the Mid-Contest Analysis.  There is a Japanese version available as well.

Just one more day to go!  Enjoy!

Helen

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  1. the cyclist replied on May 4th, 2010 at 13:29 UTC :

    Thanks for the analysis, Ned. Very cool stuff.

    Also, I don’t think I’ve mentioned this elsewhere yet, but I really like all the new contest machinery that was put in place this time around. I appreciate the effort that the team has put into the contest.

  2. Amitabh Verma replied on May 4th, 2010 at 13:39 UTC :

    I agree. Very nice work with all the new features you and your team have added since the last contest.

    Also, I do believe that the graphs at the end on the Stats page are not getting updated along with the other stats.

    Thanks for making this fun and extremely educational contest !

  3. Oliver Woodford replied on May 4th, 2010 at 14:23 UTC :

    Thanks, Ned, for picking out my Super Slim entry. I couldn’t resist dipping my toe in again. A reference framework was precisely the idea, though I had hoped that the JIT compilation of 2010a would’ve made it a bit faster – I was testing on the copy of 2007b I have at home. Rather than computing exact mean values for queryLimit regions, the regions overlap a lot, so there are many more of them. This increases resolution, but at the cost of a harder inference problem which requires some regularization.

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