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I would imagine they publish papers that are reviewed by other academics. It is possible to use their algorithm on a dataset without entering a contest to do so
by imgabe 14y ago
I would imagine they publish papers that are reviewed by other academics. It is possible to use their algorithm on a dataset without entering a contest to do so.
It's a little like asking why Electrical Engineering PhDs are not designing the new iPhone (probably some are involved somewhere, I know). Research and applications are two separate endeavors.
- marshallp 14y agoThe researchers actually do set up competitions to see who is best. However, there are few entrants. In kaggle there are 1000s of competitors, so it's a better judge of whether they are legitimately improving the state of the art (rather than simply schmoozing their local funding agencies).