Kaggle Titanic Competition Part I – Intro
In case you haven't heard of Kaggle, it's a data science competition site where companies/organizations provide data sets relevant to a problem they're facing and anyone can attempt to build predictive models for the data set. The teams that best predict the data are rewarded with fame and fortune (or relatively minor sums of money compared to the value they provide, but that's another post). Some competitions are for learning, some just for fun, and some for the $$$. One of the current competitions involves data on the passengers of the Titanic. The goal is to attempt to determine if [...]
Automated Antenna Design with Machine Learning
For the very first post on this blog I’d like to open with one of the coolest things I’ve ever seen. I learned about this back in college and the underlying concept has been one of the driving forces behind my fascination with machine learning and artificial intelligence. Here it is […]