New machine learning and natural language processing Q+A site
I'm a post-doctoral research fellow studying deep machine learning methods with Professor Yoshua Bengio at the Universitéde Montréal. I study both natural language processing and machine learning, with...
View ArticleAnd The Winners of the Milestone Prizes Are
Every year, more than 71 million individuals are admitted to hospitals in the United States. That’s roughly double the population of Canada. While many of those visits are critical and necessary, some...
View ArticleScore! Xavier Conort on coming second in 'Give Me Some Credit'
Xavier Conort came second in Give Me Some Credit and let us in on some of the tricks of the trade. How does it feel to have done so well in a contest with almost 1000 teams? I feel great because...
View ArticleSXSW, Data Hackathon, and Naming a Goose
International Data Hackathon London Big Data Week is hosting the first ever, international, 24 hour Data Science Hackathon starting at 12 noon GMT, April 28th. The dataset will be hosted on the Kaggle...
View ArticleViva libFM - Steffen Rendle on how he won the Grockit Challenge
Grockit competition winner, Steffen Rendle, shares his Factorization Machine technique. In his own words, "The combination of FMs and Bayesian learning was very handy as I didn't had to search for any...
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Are you what you Tweet? OPF releases Twitter experiment results
Cross-posted from The Online Privacy Foundation. These are the takeaways of the Psychopathy Prediction Based on Twitter Usage Kaggle Competition. As we called for in a previous post, data scientists...
View ArticleMerck Competition Results - Deep NN and GPUs come out to play
After an exciting 60 days with over 15 different teams leading the pack, the Merck Molecular Activity Challenge has closed and the winners have been verified. The first place prize of $22,000 goes to...
View ArticleDeep Learning How I Did It: Merck 1st place interview
What was your background prior to entering this challenge? We are a team of computer science and statistics academics. Ruslan Salakhutdinov and Geoff Hinton are professors at the University of Toronto....
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