5 Benefits of Competitive Machine Learning

Last Updated on June 7, 2016

Jeremy Howard, formally of Kaggle gave a presentation at the University of San Francisco in mid 2013. In that presentation he touched on some of the broader benefits of machine learning competitions like those held on Kaggle.

In this post you will discover 5 points I extracted from this talk that will motivate you to want to start participating in machine learning competitions

Competitive Machine Learning is a Meritocracy

Competitive Machine Learning is a Meritocracy
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Big Data at USF

The talk presented by Howard was titled “Jeremy Howard of Kaggle speaks about Big Data at the University of San Francisco“. The title is a misnomer. The talk focused on Howard’s background, how he came to machine learning and touching briefly on kaggle.

Howard has a background in start-ups and this talk gives a good summary of that background and the lessons he has to pass on from that journey.

Toward the end of the talk
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