Post date: Sep 6, 2012 8:32:20 PM
We came in 5th. While we were 3rd when the public leaderboard was frozen, two entries by Kaggle experts overtook us in the rankings based on the unseen test data set. Decent result, we thought. Congratulations to all participants, especially Vik and his team, whom we briefly overtook, but who beat us in the end, and are eligible to win $50k. Best thing: prizewinners will be open sourcing their code. The ETS team would have been a minor prizewinner in 5th, but never had any plan to take the money, nor will we be publishing our code.
Actually, Vik and his team turn out to be partnered with Measurement Inc, so they are not taking the money either, and also not publishing the code.