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Sure, it's not much for well compensated contractors, but 50k can be a lot of money for some people.

• stingrae 9y ago
  The point is that with 1000 people working on it, 999 are working for free.
  • onion2k 9y ago
    There are tens of thousands of people working on code to do object recognition for free already. This is just a incentive to get them to tackle a particular problem in a vast sea (heh!) of problems they could work on. It's quite likely that very few people understand that this even is a problem, and fewer still who'd be interested in it enough to work on it. This isn't getting people to work for free. It's simply getting people interested in a problem.
    • craftyguy 9y ago
      From their perspective, you are doing work for them, for free. What you just described is a benefit you receive (or more accurately, perceive) but ultimately cost them essentially $0.00 to provide.
  • paulgb 9y ago
    I spent a couple hours building a CNN for an entry to this competition last night. I don't consider it working for free, I consider it a way to practice on an interesting labeled dataset I'd otherwise not have access to.
  • whataretensors 9y ago
    This is a big reason why I don't do kaggle contests, especially when the solution is potentially worth a lot of money.