Darpa Puts On Contest to Find 10 Red Balloons Across U.S.(nytimes.com)
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Darpa Puts On Contest to Find 10 Red Balloons Across U.S.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/01/science/01darpa.html?hpw
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I'm actually trying to spearhead an effort to win this and donate the money to Livestrong (http://10loons.com, http://twitter.com/10loons). My feeling is that raw data mining techniques are going to win this thing, but we'll see.
and our paths cross again :). My effort is http://10balloons.com and http://twitter.com/10balloons.
I'm curious though: as I've worked through this challenge, my focus has been drawn to post-contest plans, using this contest as a short run experiment to achieve a bigger goal. Do you have similar ideas, or are you just going to be done when the contest announces a winner?
I'm curious though: as I've worked through this challenge, my focus has been drawn to post-contest plans, using this contest as a short run experiment to achieve a bigger goal. Do you have similar ideas, or are you just going to be done when the contest announces a winner?
Hey there! I've definitely been looking at this through a larger context, as there's a huge real-world application for things like this. You should send me an email: [email protected]
Official DARPA Network Challenge website: http://networkchallenge.darpa.mil/
Time to go buy some balloons...
Link is restricted access, you are permitted to read about the balloons here http://www.emilitary.org/article.php?aid=14878
...why not 99 red balloons instead? :)