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I didn't even realize this happened. Thank you for posting. Sucks because now I have less respect for Andrew. I don't understand why you'd want to cheat for a

• AndrewOMartin 9y ago
  On skim-reading the article it seems they were banned from submitting entries to a competition server for 12 months because they made a significant number of submissions. It's arguable that they were gaming the system somewhat, but unless a limit was explicitly defined then this just seems like they were doing a lot of exploration in the area. Imagine if you published some research showing you'd made something that did something cool, but then people lost respect for you because you'd made a lot of previous attempts.
  • interknot 9y ago
    The specified limit was 2 submissions per week, according to the people organizing the competition: http://www.image-net.org/challenges/LSVRC/announcement-June-2-2015 http://www.image-net.org/challenges/LSVRC/announcement-June-...
  • kahnjw 9y ago
    1. Third paragraph: "twice a week" 2. They registered multiple accounts to get around the limit. That removes almost all doubt that the submitter knew he/she was cheating