DARPA sets finalists for ‘high-risk, high-reward’ robotics challenge
http://www.computerworld.com/article/2893753/darpa-sets-finalists-for-high-risk-high-reward-robotics-challenge.html “The teams will compete to win one of three cash prizes totaling $3.5 million.”
View ArticleRequest for Proposals – 2015 Peer Economy Research Awards
http://fuse.microsoft.com/research/award
View ArticleBing Predicts
Here is an article telling about Microsoft’s Bing Predict that is used for predicting various sporting and other events...
View ArticleMachine Learning for Sports Analytics
Here is a podcast on using Machine Learning for sports analytics in the game of basketball: Here is also a related TED 2015 talk: The math behind basketball’s wildest moves, by Rajiv Maheswaran
View ArticleBringing “Moneyball” to the NBA
Here is an interesting podcast on the value of a player to a team, or in other words, “how much better is the unit as a result of your presence? How much worse is the unit when you’re not there?”:...
View Article50 years of Data Science
Here is a paper by David Donoho, providing some interesting perspectives on “Data Science”: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/23421017/50YearsDataScience.pdf
View ArticleElo Rating for Ranking of Go Players
Here is an example of use of Elo Rating for ranking of Go players – humans and machines included: http://googleresearch.blogspot.co.uk/2016/01/alphago-mastering-ancient-game-of-go.html
View ArticleTo secure a mobile future, Stanford expert creates an auction like no other
http://siepr.stanford.edu/highlights/secure-mobile-future-stanford-expert-paul-milgrom-creates-auction
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Thurstone Choice Model (I)
Thurstone model is a statistical model of ranking outcomes, introduced by L. L. Thurstone in "A Law of Comparative Judgement," Psychological Review, Vol 34(4), Jul 1927, 273-286; see here. One reason...
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Thurstone Choice Model (II)
In a previous article, we introduced and discussed some basic properties of Thurstone choice model. We now discuss some properties of maximum likelihood parameter estimation for Thurstone choice model....
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