The world’s smartest company?
How 17,000 geniuses are solving the planet’s toughest problems
It might just be the smartest company in the world; responsible for solving some of the toughest problems ever posed – from accurately mapping Dark Matter in the Universe to how to avoid buying dodgy vehicles at a used car auction.
Kaggle – a collection of more than 17,000 PhD-level brains who compete for prizes in solving incredibly complex questions – is using the power of the internet to accelerate problem solving on a massive scale.
Essentially, it’s crowd sourcing for geniuses
Questions that have confounded scientists for years are being solved in months now thanks to Kaggle’s unique approach to data analysis.
The company specializes in creating competitions – with valuable prizes – for its roster of 17,000 “mathletes” around the world to solve. Swathes of data are made available to the Kaggle mathletes who vie to produce the way to make the raw data meaningful.
To date Kaggle has crunched data on Dark Matter, predicting which used cars are likely to be bad buys, improve the World Chess Federation’s official chess rating system, and predicting the most effective treatment for HIV.
Many of Kaggle’s top performing mathletes are British.
Jason Tigg, a London-based particle physicist, finished third in a competition to improve the World Chess Federations’ official chess rating system and is currently coming second in a competition to predict the reliability of used cars.
Instead of spending brain time on useless items like Dark Matter and FIDE ratings, why don’t they figure out how to get rid of poverty, hunger, and ruthless dictators?
Hi Susan Polgar,
Thats cool – Congrats Kaggle.
By the by Whats the name of your company ?
Its interesting : I wish to compete among,Phd-level brains and earn the prize,for solving complex questions posted.
Kaggle,may be,you can let “Susan Polgar’s” blog users to know,the LINK to your web site,to compete in the competition[To solve the complex questions]that you host.
Hope in all case the entry to compete is free,since the solution given will have commercial value.
Okay cool – Thats just my opinion.
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Venky [ India – Chennai ]
Really?
Too much faith in human intelligence.
The world always revolves around the profit of few people.
Best regards.
Cordialement.
Stef
Hi Susan Polgar,
Hi Stef,
Creator of the universe(The God),devised the rule that Evolution takes place through explorable attitude.
No problem world revolving around few people’s profit but world drops not any,on it thats the big picture.
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Venky [ India – Chennai ]