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In the spirit of the Kaggle revolution, an industrious and risk taking hedge fund put their investments in the hands of the public. A hedge fund at the site http://Numer.ai has spent their time to encrypt their proprietary data and present it to the public as a clean, orderly, and clear classification problem. They even clearly label their observations...

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The Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence posted  a question to http://kaggle.com: How well can you do on a given 8th grade multiple choice test using artificial intelligence? Outside data was allowed in this competition. As impressive and interesting as using the World Wide Web is to take this test, it made me think about whether a model could use the...

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In low income countries, 5 out of the top 10 causes of death are communicable disease. Bacterial infections, malaria, HIV, ebola - the number of lives lost is huge. The cost to the countries affected is measured in billions of dollars. Even in United States, thousands die to the Flu, with the total financial burden exceeding $87 billion dollars...