Kaggle – Machine Learning

Kaggle Microsoft Malware Competition: Lessons Learned

Here is a link to the winning solution for this competition. Interestingly enough, this wonderful team found that pixel intensity was a feature that worked really well in malware. This is probably why I did not completely bomb out: my “golden feature” was a 1D LBP pattern extracted from the binary images. It is quite… Read More »

First Kaggle Competition

This was my first competition and I finished (cue the drums) 116th/377. A spectacular failure exceeded only by the failure in my next competition. Nevertheless, here is what I did and overall I was not all that inaccurate on the validation set and probably even less inaccurate in real life, surprise surprise. This is a… Read More »