Machine Learning Meetup Notes:2011-4-13
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Anthony Goldbloom from Kaggle Visits
- Heritage Health Competition
- Guy used random forests to win HIV competition. Word "random forests" is trademarked. Dude taught himself machine learning from watching youtube videos. Random forests are pretty robust to new data.
- Used caret package in R to deal with random forests.
- Kaggle splits test dataset into two, uses half for leaderboard.
- Often distance between winning model and second place is not statistically significant. So they award prizes to top few. Might impose restrictions on execution time of model.
- Guy used random forests to win HIV competition. Word "random forests" is trademarked. Dude taught himself machine learning from watching youtube videos. Random forests are pretty robust to new data.