An image of West Coast data science:
I keep climbing the leaderboard! … Life is pretty sweet. I pick up indoor rock climbing, sign up for wood working classes; I read Proust and books about espresso.
…Kaggle releases the final score. What an embarrassment! …Inevitably, I hike the Pacific Crest Trail and write a novel about it.
In competing w/o the data, a good discussion on fooling yourself using holdout sets.