December 16, 2012 9:43 pm
Well, that’s embarrassing. A little tweak to my dark matter model resulted in a leaderboard score in the top 10. The only problem is that the contest closed about an hour ago.
I ran this final prediction earlier today but then simply forgot to go back to it and submit!! On the bright side, I learned a lot of really interesting things about gravitational lensing and had a tonne of fun doing it. I’ll probably write a post-mortem sometime in the next few days, but for now I’m just kicking myself.
Posted by Corey Chivers
Categories: physics, Probability, Rstats
Tags: astronomy, dark matter, gravitational lensing, kaggle
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Congrats. This was a tough (but fun) competition. I’m curious, how correlated were your submission scores (public vs private). I was a bit surprised at the lack of correlation for my submissions.
By Walter Reade on December 17, 2012 at 8:41 am