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Hang on a sec, it looks like BelKor's Pragmatic Chaos and The Ensemble had the exact same Best Test Score and % Improvement. Did BelKor win because they submitted their solution 20 minutes earlier than The Ensemble? Or is that Best Submit Time something else?

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Yes - from what I remember the team that came second lost out due to something like 6 decimal places and the time diff in submission. It was pretty close!

Wow! That's bananas! Imagine being 20 minutes and 6 decimal places away from a million bucks.

Being six decimal places away from winning means the winner was one million times better than you.

They're talking about 0.999999 vs 0.999998, or ~1 part in 1 million different

I might be mis-remembering this part - but I believe napoleon dynamite had its own algorithm in the ensemable because it was a tricky one to predict the rating for.

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