Hacker News with Generative AI: Kaggle

Wikipedia offers AI developers its article data on Kaggle to stop scraping (siliconangle.com)
The Wikimedia Foundation, the organization behind the internet’s largest free encyclopedia Wikipedia, is offering an artificial intelligence-ready dataset on Kaggle that’s aimed at dissuading AI companies and large language model trainers from scraping the website.

Wikipedia, AI, Data, Kaggle, Scraping

13 points by giuliomagnifico 9 days ago | 1 comments

Kaggle and the Wikimedia Foundation are partnering on open data (google)
Kaggle and the Wikimedia Foundation are partnering on open data.

Open Data, Partnerships, Wikimedia Foundation, Kaggle

136 points by xnx 10 days ago | 38 comments

Weird Kaggle and the Superiority of Books (griffens.net)
I recently entered a Kaggle competition to brush up on some modeling skills.1 The analysis problem is a pretty typical clinical prediction question. My final product is, well, "final product" is an extremely charitable description of it.2 But despite this it was a fascinating and worthwhile experience, full of interesting questions to ponder, such as "what is the fundamental difference between statistics and machine learning?" and "do they realize their evaluation metric is pretty silly?"