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Intro:

'The Diabetic Retinopathy challenge on Kaggle has just finished. The goal of the competition was to predict the presence and severity of the disease Diabetic Retinopathy from photographs of eyes. I finished in 20th place using a Convolutional Neural Network (ConvNet). In this post I’ll explain my learning process and progress as I implemented my first ConvNet over the last 3 months. Throughout, I’ll link to the implementations in my code, which is available on github for anyone who wishes to replicate my score.'

Nothing new. Deep learning is hyped up to 90% these days.
So what won? Did they use conv nets?
Still active: https://www.kaggle.com/c/diabetic-retinopathy-detection

Looks like a fun problem. I've never had much luck with NN for anything other that feature extraction.

It just finished, I got 4th. I used convnets. With the correct initialization and data preprocessing they actually are quite easy to train.
Neat. Congrats! I'm going to have to learn me some ConvNets.