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.