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Is this a just a hiring competition under a different name? If you can beat their model, obviously you deserve a 100k signing bonus and a very generous compensa
by bklyn11201 6y ago
Is this a just a hiring competition under a different name? If you can beat their model, obviously you deserve a 100k signing bonus and a very generous compensation package.
- usmannk 6y agoYou don't beat their model, just those of everyone else in the competition. A very different game.
- sjg007 6y agoDoing well on Kaggle is basically a resume builder and probably would get you into jobs you wouldn't otherwise get. Not much different than topcoder in that sense. Some people can make a living just winning competitions.
- hnracer 6y agoYou can't beat their model because they don't include all the data they use in the competition dataset. It's a highly sanitized and simplified toy problem used for hiring and marketing. They don't even tell you what the features are so it's impossible to use domain expertise to constrain the fitting problem (this is a critical component to building profitable trading models because of the signal to noise ratio in the data)