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The Famine Early Warning Systems Network, DigitalGlobe, and thousands of online volunteers partner up to map out displacement in crisis-stricken regions. Continue reading We’re Fighting Famine in South Sudan With Images From Outer Space
The Famine Early Warning Systems Network, DigitalGlobe, and thousands of online volunteers partner up to map out displacement in crisis-stricken regions. Continue reading We’re Fighting Famine in South Sudan With Images From Outer Space
On the heels of acquiring data science community Kaggle, Google is launching a machine learning competition of its own for startups. Google is targeting early-stage companies taking an innovative approach to machine learning. The competition is b… Continue reading Google partners with VCs to host its own machine learning startup competition
Keenon Werling would be the first to agree that conversational AI is regularly overhyped. So instead of taking the traditional approach and gloating about a glitzy new deeper learning algorithm to pitch his new venture Eloquent Labs, Werling instead opted to differentiate by optimizing something far more low-tech, people. The startup’s special sauce is embracing a mix of AI,… Read More Continue reading With a $1.5M seed round, Eloquent Labs mixes AI and Mechanical Turk to fix customer service
In the financial sector, everyone is looking for a new way to get ahead. Since the invention of the personal computer, and perhaps even before, large financial institutions have been using software to guide all manner of investment decisions. The turn of the century saw the rise of High Frequency Trading, or HFT, in which highly optimized bots make millions of split-second transactions a day.
Recently, [Wired] reported on Numerai — a hedge fund founded on big data and crowdsourcing principles. The basic premise is thus — Numerai takes its transaction data, encrypts it in a manner that hides its …read more
Continue reading Hedgefund Startup Powered By Crowdsourced Code
NASA’s ‘Project Four’ lets anyone with an internet connection look for spider-like frozen carbon dioxide features. Continue reading Amateur Scientists Are Finding ‘Spiders’ on Mars
There’s an app that allows people to submit photographs of hotel rooms around the world into a centralized database. The idea is that photographs of victims of human trafficking are often taken in hotel rooms, and the database will help law enforcement find the traffickers. I can’t speak to the efficacy of the database — in particular, the false positives… Continue reading Crowdsourcing a Database of Hotel Rooms
With “Project Discovery,” EVE Online players are helping to classify proteins in human cells. Continue reading Players of ‘EVE Online’ Are Improving Our Knowledge of Proteins in Human Cells
People who don’t want Waze routing cars through their neighborhoods are feeding it false data. It was here that Connor learned that some Waze warriors had launched concerted campaigns to fool the app. Neighbors filed false reports of blockages, sometimes with multiple users reporting the same issue to boost their credibility. But Waze was way ahead of them. It’s not… Continue reading Waze Data Poisoning
Residents on a formerly quiet street tried reporting bogus blockades, but it hasn’t worked to stem the crowdsourced traffic tide. Continue reading Waze to go: residents fight off crowdsourced traffic… for a while