Wednesday, July 3, 2013

Tubitak Biometrics Research

Fingerprint etc. database  related to biometrics is here

Amazon Data Science Competition

MLSP 2012 Competition: Amazon Data Science Competition

Monday, April 16, 2012

Learning is fun.

Online courses from Princeton, Stanford, etc. are here and seem to be free. One of these is the online computer vision course from Prof. Jitendra Malik at UC Berkeley. Here is the link.

Sunday, March 11, 2012

Challenge on Yahoo! dataset.

The dataset provided by Yahoo! contains user click logs for news articles displayed in the Featured Tab of the Today Module on Yahoo!
The goal is to optimize the choice of the article to display with respect to a user description in order to gather the maximum number of clicks. Here is the link.

Saturday, March 10, 2012

IGARSS Data Fusion Contest

The IGARSS Data Fusion Contest is designed to investigate the potential of multi-modal/multi-temporal fusion of very high spatial resolution imagery. Here is the link.

Saturday, January 21, 2012

Ergonomic chairs

During my masters, I had an office with ergonomic chairs and I have missed my chair ever since... l believe it was this brand : an Aeron Chair by Herman Miller. A big screen and a good chair seem to boost my productivity quite a bit.

Tuesday, October 18, 2011

More on machine learning contests and datasets

Machine learning contests at kaggle
"Kaggle is a platform for data prediction competitions that allows organizations to post their data and have it scrutinized by the world's best data scientists"