Day 2: The model I want is the one that's boring everywhere

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Kaggle Benchmarking Challenge. Previously: Day 0, the benchmark · Day 1, most of my bugs looked like model behaviour The benchmark asks one question twice: can the model do the job, and does it know when it can't? There are 200 invented items in four everyday shapes: route, classify, judge and ground. In each shape, one item in five can only be answered with ESCALATE. Every model gets two numbers that are never merged: a task score, and a false-confidence rate (how often it answered anyway when the right reply was ESCALATE).

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