Introduction Mean quadratic weighted kappa is useful for measuring the agreement between a set of raters/scorers (e.g. judges scores) as it excludes random-agreement (an example of random agreement is if you had two raters/scores scoring something randomly they would still, over a large data set, have some sort of random agreement between each others scores). [...]
Just a quick example of how to plot from cmd/shell using Gnuplot (my favourite plotting tool): gnuplot -p -e “plot ‘test.txt’” -p to keep the gnuplot window open once the command has run -e to specify that a gnuplot command follows (in the example above we plotting a data file test.txt”) References: You can download [...]
The Heritage Provider Network in association with Kaggle (online algorithm competition site) has announced their biggest competition yet. It is fully open to international public, anyone can enter. The competition prize money is $3 000 000 !!! Yes, 3 mil. “The winning team will create an algorithm that predicts,with the highest accuracy, how many days [...]
Jacob “Jake” Barnett (born 1998) is an American prodigy (with Aspergers syndrome) who is looking to extend Einstein’s theory of relativity. Here is a summary of some of Jakes accomplishments to date: 1. IQ of atleast 170. 2. Taught himself calculus, algebra, geometry and trigonometry in a week. 3. By the age of 3 he [...]
I have always wanted to get a high-speed camera and film this myself. Its amazing what one can find on the internet.