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by benhamner 14y ago
A different way to frame the question: "what keeps you up at night?" (beyond the very uncommon event of HN being down) Massive quantity of emails? YC startups that aren't the rare runaway success? YC startups that are the rare runaway succe
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by benhamner 14y ago
More accurately described as "where people were located since 2,300 BCE that were capable of recording meteor strikes and recorded them in a form that survived until present day and made its way into a database of meteor strikes." Latitudin
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Machine Learning and AI via Brain simulations [video](techtalks.tv)
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Machine Learning and AI via Brain Simulations [video](techtalks.tv)
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Let The Crowd Be Your Cofounder(venturebeat.com)
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Let the crowd create your next billion dollar algorithm(wired.com)
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Web analytics just got meta
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by benhamner 14y ago
Thrilled to see this. IPython Notebook has become my go-to tool for data munging and analytics. I look forward to seeing the IPython team take it to the next level.
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by benhamner 14y ago
Very curious to see how well this works in practice. An excellent example of a usable predictive interface is DataWrangler from the Stanford Vis group - http://vis.stanford.edu/wrangler/app/ . Bit of a learning curve, but well worth it if
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GE Launches Flight and Health Contests with Kaggle [video](gequest.com)
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by benhamner 14y ago
Well written, but I believe you missed the point of the original article. No one ever claimed that taking one class made someone an expert "data scientist." Instead, that single class wetted Luis, Jure, and Xavier's (the three competition w
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by benhamner 14y ago
When we host competitions on Kaggle, a lot of work goes into asking the right question and structuring the problem. The domain expertise is incorporated in this step, as well as in putting the competition results to use in production. This
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by benhamner 14y ago
How are you evaluating feed relevance?
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by benhamner 14y ago
Shoot me a message if you're interested in Kaggle - ben@kaggle
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by benhamner 14y ago
Interesting comparison, but only using generated mixtures of gaussians for training data severely limits any conclusions that can be drawn from this. Naturally the method with the same assumptions as the generating process had the best perf
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by benhamner 14y ago
What do you need?
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John Langford & much of Yahoo Research NY Going to MSR(hunch.net)
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by benhamner 14y ago
In the Netflix prize, did all teams merge into one group and stop trying? Nor would we expect so with K groups, especially with exponentially decreasing prize amounts. If this is even slightly a risk, you can compensate by making the maximu
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by benhamner 14y ago
This is why you should award prizes for the top K performers, as opposed to the first one to cross a benchmark.
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by benhamner 14y ago
As Eliezer said - they implemented the two most important algorithms from the contest, which advanced the state of the art in recommendation systems & gave the majority of the benefits, and didn't implement the long tail of algorithms t
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by benhamner 15y ago
"I'm particularly interested in working on challenging problems dealing with algorithms and big data" Give one of our competitions a shot - http://kaggle.com/ . They're a good way to experiment with algorithms and machine learning on well
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Kaggle launches Automated Essay Scoring competition(kaggle.com)
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by benhamner 15y ago
This is an old article (from 2009). Hartmut Neven provided an update at ICML 2011 in the latter part of his keynote talk - http://techtalks.tv/talks/54457/
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Map of students in Stanford's ML class - is this the future of education?(maps.google.com)
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I imagine they want demographic data on who's taking the course. If you were running a large-scale education experiment, wouldn't you want to be able to measure how things are going and account for variables such as gender, age, and educat
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by benhamner 15y ago
Nice. A good next step would be to add an interactive window, like the main window in Matlab.