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ZankerH comments on [link] Baidu cheats in an AI contest in order to gain a 0.24% advantage - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: ZankerH 06 June 2015 08:37:13AM *  2 points [-]

"Meaningless" is an understatement. In computer vision, once you arrive at such small error rates and improvements, you're effectively no longer solving the problem, you're solving the data set - which is exactly what the "cheating" consisted of in this case.