You need everything other than ML to win a ML hackathon [D]

Basically a rant on condition of offline hackathons hosted my big MNCs and institues.

Tired of participating in hackathons aimed to "develope cutting edge solution" and end up losing to a guy who have never studied machine learning but expert in "bussiness informatics" and really good while pitching the solution within given time limit.

How can a sane mind who worked on idea, a prototype and a model for 2-3 days non-stop only gets to talk about it just for …

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