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When you bite off more than you can chew, it shows itself when you get to the write up and don't have the word count or the figures to adequately cover the exact points you talk about in this blog post. This was the case with ours, but I think a potentially interesting pursuit nonetheless. Sometimes, just making it happen without fizzling out is a small win in itself.

https://www.kaggle.com/code/jacobmarkmiller/anticipating-play-outcomes

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Great article!

I do think your philosophy and points are well received but I also somewhat miss the good old days of practitioners building creative and new methodologies. I am biased of course but there is a part of me that believes there is value inherently in experimenting and showcasing unique/creative methodology even if the raw results themselves are somewhat meaningless (small training set, needs to get reproduced over large samples).

There was a part of us that was frustrated with that lack of creativity for those choosing to use deep learning and the fact that the official NGS team still uses the Zoo arch from 2020. To me seeing a project like CAMO where they go in and find meaningful interpretation of attention weights (a non-trivial task imo) is pretty cool in itself.

Also to your point about 3D graphics... I remember Rishav put together a fantastic one for our PaVE submission 3 years ago. It got so much hype on twitter and I'd be lying if I didn't think it contributed to us getting HM. I can see why people make the investment!

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