{
  "id": 586922,
  "title": "What’s the Objective? ",
  "url": "/competitions/ariel-data-challenge-2025/discussion/586922",
  "author_name": "Callum Maystone",
  "post_date": "2025-06-29T03:22:27.961000",
  "votes": 0,
  "comment_count": 1,
  "views": 0,
  "content": "<p>Is the outcome computer vision with answers, or vision itself?</p>",
  "messages": [
    {
      "id": 3235489,
      "postDate": "2025-06-29T10:00:27.377Z",
      "content": "<p>Hi <a href=\"https://www.kaggle.com/callummaystone\" target=\"_blank\">@callummaystone</a>, the objective is (in astronomy jargon) to come up with a solution that can process the observation, and provide a transmission spectrum and its error bar. <br>\nIn ml terms, its a regression problem to produce a target vector of length 283 (x2), you will need to not only predict the mean, but the standard deviation of your prediction as well. Hope it helps!</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "Hi @callummaystone, the objective is (in astronomy jargon) to come up with a solution that can process the observation, and provide a transmission spectrum and its error bar. \nIn ml terms, its a regression problem to produce a target vector of length 283 (x2), you will need to not only predict the mean, but the standard deviation of your prediction as well. Hope it helps!",
      "votes": 3
    },
    {
      "id": 3235293,
      "postDate": "2025-06-29T03:22:27.960Z",
      "content": "<p>Is the outcome computer vision with answers, or vision itself?</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "Is the outcome computer vision with answers, or vision itself?\n"
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  "comments": [
    {
      "id": 3235489,
      "author_name": "Gordon Yip",
      "author_url": "",
      "post_date": "2025-06-29T10:00:27.377000",
      "content": "<p>Hi <a href=\"https://www.kaggle.com/callummaystone\" target=\"_blank\">@callummaystone</a>, the objective is (in astronomy jargon) to come up with a solution that can process the observation, and provide a transmission spectrum and its error bar. <br>\nIn ml terms, its a regression problem to produce a target vector of length 283 (x2), you will need to not only predict the mean, but the standard deviation of your prediction as well. Hope it helps!</p>",
      "votes": 3,
      "replies": []
    }
  ],
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    "3235489": "Hi @callummaystone, the objective is (in astronomy jargon) to come up with a solution that can process the observation, and provide a transmission spectrum and its error bar. \nIn ml terms, its a regression problem to produce a target vector of length 283 (x2), you will need to not only predict the mean, but the standard deviation of your prediction as well. Hope it helps!",
    "3235293": "Is the outcome computer vision with answers, or vision itself?\n"
  }
}