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Darpa Puts On Contest to Find 10 Red Balloons Across U.S.

• _ck_ 17y ago
  If they had any sense of humor it would have been 99. But then again it's the Pentagon.
• theli0nheart 17y ago
  I'm actually trying to spearhead an effort to win this and donate the money to Livestrong (http://10loons.com http://10loons.com, http://twitter.com/10loons http://twitter.com/10loons). My feeling is that raw data mining techniques are going to win this thing, but we'll see.
  • rdj 17y ago
    and our paths cross again :). My effort is http://10balloons.com http://10balloons.com and http://twitter.com/10balloons http://twitter.com/10balloons. I'm curious though: as I've worked through this challenge, my focus has been drawn to post-contest plans, using this contest as a short run experiment to achieve a bigger goal. Do you have similar ideas, or are you just going to be done when the contest announces a winner?
    • theli0nheart 17y ago
      Hey there! I've definitely been looking at this through a larger context, as there's a huge real-world application for things like this. You should send me an email: dloewenherz@gmail.com
• jws 17y ago
  Link is restricted access, you are permitted to read about the balloons here http://www.emilitary.org/article.php?aid=14878 http://www.emilitary.org/article.php?aid=14878
• jazzychad 17y ago
  Official DARPA Network Challenge website: http://networkchallenge.darpa.mil/ http://networkchallenge.darpa.mil/
• dugmartin 17y ago
  Time to go buy some balloons...
• zurcociremer 17y ago
  ...why not 99 red balloons instead? :)