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Self-Driving Car Challenge

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Re: Self-Driving Car Challenge

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Post by c4obi »

TheArcane wrote: post #2

I'm looking for someone to build a team with. The discussion forum isn't helpful, is anyone here interested?

I am but then again all I have is a burning desire to learn about and build this stuff. I have no experience in it.

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Post by marcell »

TheArcane wrote: post #2

I'm looking for someone to build a team with. The discussion forum isn't helpful, is anyone here interested?

I'd be interested. I have a lot of programming experience, just started on machine learning. etc. My email is in my HN profile.

Re: Self-Driving Car Challenge

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Post by ingenieroariel »

Having a lot of smart people work in parallel is fun but it would be far more productive for all of them to work together.

Here is a crazy thought for these kind of contests, make the first round competitive and award to the winner team. Then make a second collaborative round where everyone who gets a pull request accepted gets invited to see the code in action.

We need the money to go towards helping create open source communities instead of reusing the competitive approach from academia.

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Post by petervandijck »

ingenieroariel wrote: post #7

Having a lot of smart people work in parallel is fun but it would be far more productive for all of them to work together. Here is a crazy thought for these kind of contests, make the first round competitive and award to the winner team. Then make a second collaborative round where everyone who gets a pull request accepted gets invited to see the code in action. We need the money to go towards helping create open sou…

"it would be far more productive for all of them to work together" -> not necessarily. It's not very common but there are examples of having multiple teams try to solve the same problem in parallel. It ends up speeding up development - they will come up with different approaches, and the best (or a combination) can be selected.
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