Talk:Competitions
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| - | Many groups talked about ''competitions.'' The committee thought that it was important that the competition by decided by an objective measure, not a beauty contest that could leave many irritated. The Architecture community, for example, recently had a branch prediction competition decided by testing branch predictors on traces '''not''' provided while competitor were developing their entries. | + | Many groups talked about ''competitions.'' The committee thought that it was important that the competition by decided by an objective measure, not a beauty contest that could leave many irritated. The Architecture community, for example, recently had a branch prediction competition decided by testing branch predictors on traces '''not''' provided while competitors were developing their entries. |
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Starting Comments
Many groups talked about competitions. The committee thought that it was important that the competition by decided by an objective measure, not a beauty contest that could leave many irritated. The Architecture community, for example, recently had a branch prediction competition decided by testing branch predictors on traces not provided while competitors were developing their entries.
SIGKDD
- We introduced KDD Cup whose goal was to provide competition which would practically evaluate many approaches to the same problem
