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by hassiktir 4036 days ago
Usually the writeup is just supplemental to the posting's on the forum (and there is usually a 'post your solution' type deal where people walk through their process and sometimes post code) but I'm guessing it's just one of the competitions that will end up taking a month or so to gather all the interviews from the actual winners as well as BAYZ. Probably will not be too informative as they go quite into depth about the process and the linked blog post show's almost literal step by step of how to "game" kaggle leaderboards which is a huge aspect of competing (and why there is a private vs public dataset, why there are competition 'must enter by' deadlines and why people post benchmark code that will beat 25% of the current leaderboard before the competition is over and a lot of various other reasons).

Also looking at my submissions and notes from the competition (I stopped after the first week or so though) I even noted which 'groups' were most likely on the public leaderboard as it becomes easy to tell based on how your personal metric scores vs how that score results on the leaderboard since you know the evaluation metric for each competition.