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> Why is the competition designed in such a way that it is an advantage See my comment & links at the bottom of this page. For some reason HN always puts my co

by solve 11y ago

> Why is the competition designed in such a way that it is an advantage See my comment & links at the bottom of this page. For some reason HN always puts my comments near the bottom, even when they're getting many upvotes. (I'm guessing that HN has a comment-editing penalty from editing my comments too many times, but I'm not sure, or maybe it's from times I must have insulted the mods here.) Edit: I constantly get "submitting too fast", so I'll reply here. Thanks for the info kefka. Yeah, I'll happily agree with that linked comment, that the childish crude moderation techniques used here have been hurting a once great community. It was the exact same scenario for me as for that guy. Seems I got rank-banned immediately after confronting dang about the trends of excessive downvoting and increasing side-project criticizing on HN.

nl 11y ago
(For some reason HN always puts my comments near the bottom, even when they're getting many upvotes I think it's because you don't have many upvoted comments in total (maybe?). I upvoted you here, though.)
kefka 11y ago
It's called being rankbanned. A mod did that to you. See this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9165780 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9165780
chvid 11y ago
Is it correctly understood that in "Large Scale Visual Recognition Challenge" the competitor's biweekly runs ahead of the final submission is against the set that actually determines the final result of the contest?!
- mcguire 11y ago
  That's what I was wondering. If so, submitting many test runs makes it trivial to provide a submission that works perfectly against the test data specifically.
  - chvid 11y ago
    Then it is just bunkers - what are these guys thinking?
  - dumitrue 11y ago
    But the test set has 50,000 images (across 1000 categories). It's not that easy to just "try many times" to get it right.
    - mcguire 11y ago
      ...for some definitions of "trivial" and "perfect". At this level, I suspect even a small advantage would result in winning the contest, which is the point here.

by solve 11y ago

nl 11y ago

(For some reason HN always puts my comments near the bottom, even when they're getting many upvotes I think it's because you don't have many upvoted comments in total (maybe?). I upvoted you here, though.)

kefka 11y ago

It's called being rankbanned. A mod did that to you. See this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9165780 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9165780

chvid 11y ago

Is it correctly understood that in "Large Scale Visual Recognition Challenge" the competitor's biweekly runs ahead of the final submission is against the set that actually determines the final result of the contest?!

mcguire 11y ago
That's what I was wondering. If so, submitting many test runs makes it trivial to provide a submission that works perfectly against the test data specifically.
- chvid 11y ago
  Then it is just bunkers - what are these guys thinking?
- dumitrue 11y ago
  But the test set has 50,000 images (across 1000 categories). It's not that easy to just "try many times" to get it right.
  - mcguire 11y ago
    ...for some definitions of "trivial" and "perfect". At this level, I suspect even a small advantage would result in winning the contest, which is the point here.