After our update last Thursday, we thought we were done with the competition. It was time to finish up the rest of our finals and enjoy one last weekend at Olin. It had been a good run, but we didn't meet our original goal of beating the lenstool method.
Today I got home for winter break, excited to catch my dad (hi dad!) up on everything that happend this semester. I was telling about about the competition, and went to show him the leaderboard - it had been updated since the competition ended on Sunday. The final results were now visible! Recall that the public leaderboard was only based on 25% of predictions - the private leaderboard (based on the other 75% of predictions) determines the final winner.
Geoff and I came in 96th out of 357 participants! This is way better than our public leaderboard rank of 186th place. Furthermore, our score of 0.89688 blew the lenstool's score of 1.05 out of the water. We beat our original goal!
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