Viewing profile — blurps

> into the trash bin? They did not implement the winning solution as is, but a lot of good stuff came from the winning teams, including techniques (such as SVD) that are in use as …

This only works when you don't win. You have to upload your code, including model training code, they won't accept a trained model binary.

Winners have to submit code most of the times. There are sporadic computer vision competitions where it is possible to hand-label (such as geo-int competitions where people reverse…

The Netflix Prize winners regularly compete on Kaggle. One of the top 10 Netflix Prize winners joined Kaggle early on (he got a job out of it). Kaggle competitions are a game. Most…

You are using the same tactic I described: State surveillance has the potential to turn us all into Nazi's, so state surveillance is inherently bad. How can I ever hope to support …

Great informative article, but at times the posing is naive or supporting a certain narrative. For instance: The government goes after Islamic terrorists and Mexican illegal immigr…

Thanks. I'd never considered adaptiveness of a theory before and I like it. Perhaps adaptiveness at times emerges spontaneously from simplicity / regularization. But it is good to …

Just like one can't disprove solipsism, one can only brush it aside as pragmatically useless. Just because a theory is internally consistent or even accurate, does not mean it is a…