“You can chuck as many crazy ideas at the algorithms as you like, and they figure out which ones work” (Image: Paul Sakuma/AP/Press Association)
Kaggle has been described as “an online marketplace for brains”. Tell me about it.
It’s a website that hosts competitions for data prediction. We’ve run a whole bunch of amazing competitions. One asked competitors to develop algorithms to mark students’ essays. One that finished recently challenged competitors to develop a gesture-learning system for the Microsoft Kinect. The idea was to show the controller a gesture just once, and the algorithm would recognise it in…
