For anyone looking for something fun to do over the summer months, while classes are out and many research projects are stalled for a variety of reasons, the people at Kaggle are hosting an interesting competition this summer.

The Higgs Boson Machine Learning Challenge is a contest to develop better methods of using machine learning methods, such as decision trees and neural networks, to improve the signal-to-noise ratio of particle physics experiments. Competitors will be provided with simula...
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