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Before reading they'd scraped public data that was likely to be the "hidden" evaluation set, I thought they might have cheated using Python introspection: inspe

by gojomo 7y ago

Before reading they'd scraped public data that was likely to be the "hidden" evaluation set, I thought they might have cheated using Python introspection: inspect the caller's frame, find some variable already loaded with the expected answer, return that. Has anyone cheated at Kaggle/similar using that approach?

anoncareer0212 7y ago
No, and this pattern of thought is bizarre, lacks technical grounding, and more importantly, scruples
- samatman 7y ago
  The comment you're responding to isn't cracking, it's penetration testing. Hope that helps.
- meowface 7y ago
  ...What? Their post seemed very reasonable. This seems like a valid concern.