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Comment author: jbay 04 January 2016 04:53:36PM 0 points [-]

Thanks, that is indeed a better scoring rule. I did check first to see if the squared error was proper, and it was (since these are binary predictions), but the log rule makes much more sense. I will update the above later when I get home.