Life in the Singularity

Life in the Singularity

Predicting Medicine Into Existence - Part IV

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Matt McDonagh
Jul 10, 2024
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I had so much fun with this competition.

Part I

Part II

Part III

The winner SHOCKED the world and rocketed from nearly 900th place to win the whole thing. With $50,000 up for grabs that’s a big shakeup.

The data we were all working with represented just 35% of the set. Once the competition ended our models were tested against the remaining data and a private leaderboard was revealed with the true winners.

Here they are:

My score jumped up a bit too… but just 22 positions.

I ended up in 1723rd place out slightly more than 9,000 competitors.

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