Yesterday a kaggler, today a Kaggle master: a wrap-up of the cats and dogs competition - FastML

Out of 215 contestants, we placed 8th in the Cats and Dogs competition at Kaggle. The top ten finish gave us the master badge. The competition was about discerning the animals in images and here’s how we did it. We extracted the features using pre-trained deep convolutional networks, specifically decaf and OverFeat. Then we trained some classifiers on these features. The whole thing was inspired b