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Title is misleading, it should say, "Data-prediction specialists beat specialists from other fields at data-prediction".
by DougBTX 14y ago
Title is misleading, it should say, "Data-prediction specialists beat specialists from other fields at data-prediction".
- ivoflipse 14y agoMy bad, I used the Hacker News submit bookmarklet, which probably picked out a quote, rather than the title of the article. I probably should have paid more attention. But now its been too long for me to edit it
- jph00 14y agoI think that is at least as mid-leading. For instance, in a competition to create an algorithm to automatically grade student essays, fourteen amateur teams who had never worked in the field beat all eleven essay-grading specialist companies that entered. Both titles are, strictly speaking, accurate. However nowadays so many fields are effectively "data prediction" that the scope of this is extremely wide.