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b_emery on Oct 15, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Amateur astronomers discover a planet with four su...

Their link to human vs machine is interesting:

http://www.planethunters.org/science#human

I wonder how good their machine learning is? I'd love to throw some support vector machines or neural networks at this stuff!

sadga on Oct 15, 2012 [–]

A team at McGill made a "game" to find patterns in I think protein-folding or genome data, to leverage humans to identify patterns that their algorithms could not.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phylo_(video_game)

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