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by kmlx 2577 days ago
they're there for denying access to automated scripts.
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This is the reason they exist in the first place, but doesn't answer the question why they're implemented this particular way.
They're implemented this particular way to provide training data for image segmentation systems, they move the image around inside the frame which allows them to use a few people doing the challenge to create a boundary representation that can be used to train things like YOLO style ML systems